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Michelangelo Buonarroti: David, detail of the copy outside the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence
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It has been said (but I think this is just a story) that Michelangelo Buonarroti nailed some poor man to a board and pierced his heart with a spear, so as to paint a Crucifixion.
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Michelangelo Buonarroti Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
N.B. For the sake of readability, we have organized external links into these different tabs:
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Mini-site for the 2002-2003 exhibition The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence
Michelangelo Buonarroti at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
2 works online
Michelangelo Buonarroti at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Bust of Michelangelo and a couple of works by him
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Many works online
Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Crouching Boy, 1530-34
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Crouching Boy, ca.1530-34
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Holy Family; Putti, 1530
Michelangelo Buonarroti at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Ideal Head of a Woman, ca.1520
Michelangelo Buonarroti at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Male Nude, Seen from the Front
Michelangelo Buonarroti at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Rebellious Slave
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
2 sculptures and many drawings online
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Skip forward to about page 8 for many works on paper by Michelangelo
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
National Gallery, London, UK
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
The Royal Collection, London, UK
Vatican Museums, Vatican City
The Sistine Chapel Ceiling, the Lunettes on the Sistine Chapel walls, and The Last Judgement
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Casa Buonarroti, Florence
A dozen or so sculptures and drawings by the artist
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
190 works by or related to the artist
Frick Collection, New York City NEW!
Pietā
Samson and Two Philistines
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas NEW!
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Museo dell'Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti, Genoa, Italy (in Italian)
A cast of the head of Michelangelo's Moses
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Study for the Resurrection of Christ, ca.1532-34
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Study of a male nude, ca.1532-33
National Museums Liverpool, UK
Christ and the Woman of Samaria
Palais Fesch Musée des Beaux-Arts, Ajaccio, France (in French)
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
David Slaying Goliath, Four sketches
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)
Click "Immagini" for several large drawings from a 2005-2006 exhibition
Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)
Click "Immagini" for several large architectural drawings from a 2006 exhibition
Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands NEW!
Works from the museum's drawings and engravings collection
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
Michelangelo Buonarroti at the The British Museum, London, UK
Online tour: Michelangelo's drawings
Michelangelo Buonarroti at the The British Museum, London, UK
Online tour: Michelangelo: money and medals
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
Virtual Uffizi
Tondo Doni
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
3 works online when last checked
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Michelangelo Buonarroti 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Artnet Magazine
Artnet Magazine
Pieta Rondanini
Artnet Magazine
Study for the Nude Youth over the Prophet Daniel, 1510-11
Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists
Biography of the artist. Detailed, but Vasari's anecdotes are sometimes inaccurate.
International Herald Tribune (now part of the New York Times organization)
"The Young Michelangelo," article by Roderick Conway Morris
International Herald Tribune (now part of the New York Times organization)
"Myth of Ganymede: Aspects of love in Michelangelo," article by Roderick Conway Morris
Slate Magazine
"Fanciful Traces: Michelangelo's whimsical sketches," article by Christopher Benfey
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Moses, 1513-16
The London Evening Standard
"Michelangelo and his boy", 2010 article by Brian Sewell
The London Evening Standard
"Michelangelo's earliest painting should have been saved", 2009 article by Brian Sewell
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