Michelangelo Buonarroti art links 

Michelangelo Buonarroti: David, detail of the copy outside the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence
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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

Michelangelo Buonarroti at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Bust of Michelangelo and a couple of works by him

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, red chalk drawing

Michelangelo Buonarroti at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Male Nude, Seen from the Front, pen and ink drawing, 1505-06

Michelangelo Buonarroti at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Rebellious Slave, 1513-15

Louvre Museum Database, Paris
2 sculptures and many drawings online

Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)   NEW!  
Skip forward to about page 8 for many works on paper by Michelangelo

Michelangelo Buonarroti at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
Studies for the Libyan Sibyl, 1508-12 (Zoom)

Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History  

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Paintings collection online

Michelangelo Buonarroti at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
4 works by Michelangelo Buonarroti

National Gallery, London, UK   NEW!

Michelangelo Buonarroti at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Design for a statue of Henry II of France on horseback, ca.1559-60

Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)  

Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK

The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")

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 Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Mary with the Dead Christ, drawing

Frick Collection, New York City
Samson and Two Philistines, bronze

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Museo Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy (in Italian)   NEW!  

Museo Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy (in Italian)   NEW!  

Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, Italy
Cleopatra

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

Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
David Slaying Goliath, Four sketches

State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy

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

The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)   NEW!  

The British Museum, London, UK
Online tour: Michelangelo's drawings

The British Museum, London, UK
Online tour: Michelangelo: money and medals

Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK

 
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:

Art Fund for UK Museums

Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)  

Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)  

 

Art Renewal Center

Artchive  

Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: The Delphic Sibyl

CGFA  

The Athenaeum  

Web Gallery of Art  

WebMuseum  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)

1200 Years of Italian Sculpture (mostly in Italian)  

Aiwaz Panopticon

Archker's Fantasy Art Gallery

Artyzm

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)

Boston College Fine Arts Department

California State University WorldImages Database  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

Humanities Web  

Jetset Image Galleries

Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project  
5 works documented

Olga's Gallery

PBase Photo Sharing
(Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)

Spain Ministry of Education Imagebank (in Spanish)  
Type "Michelangelo" into the search box & click "Buscar"; the "Descargar" link downloads a high-res image

University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser

USC Annenberg School for Communication

 

Michelangelo Web Design
Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475-1564

The Digital Michelangelo Project
A group working to digitize Michelangelo's sculptures in 3 dimensions

 

Art Museum Image Consortium
Study for the Nude Youth over the Prophet Daniel

Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
Scroll down to signature 313

Artarchiv Sample Artist Symbols + Monograms
Scroll down to monogram 691

ArtWatch International
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Before and After Restoration: The Sistine Chapel Ceiling

ArtWatch International
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ArtWatch is calling for an immediate halt to the restoration of Michelangelo's statue group known as Victory

ArtWatch International
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David in Danger: Michelangelo's David is scheduled for a drastic restoration as soon as tourist season is over

Erik E. Weems Web Design

Great Buildings Online

Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation

The Modernist Journals Project

 

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 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)  

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

Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)   NEW!  

Slate Magazine
"Fanciful Traces: Michelangelo's whimsical sketches," article by Christopher Benfey

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Moses, 1513-16

Time Magazine
"Out of Grime, a Domain of Light", 1987 article by Robert Hughes

"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon Look Inside Books: Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader.              Search Inside Books: Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon.   search inside Michelangelo (Icon Editions) search inside Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling search inside Il Gigante: Michelangelo, Florence, and the David 1492-1504 search inside Michelangelo: The Sistine Chapel Ceiling search inside Michelangelo and the Reform of Art search inside Michelangelo search inside Michelangelo's Mountain: The Quest For Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara search inside Drawings of Michelangelo (Master Draughtsman Series) search inside A Journey into Michelangelo's Rome search inside Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel search inside Michelangelo (Drawing Gallery series) look inside The Architecture of Michelangelo look inside The Complete Poems of Michelangelo look inside The Life of Michel-Angelo look inside Michelangelo and His Drawings look inside Michelangelo Life Drawings (Dover) look inside Michelangelo: The Medici Chapel look inside Michelangelo & Creation of the Sistine Chapel look inside Complete Poems and Selected Letters of Michelangelo look inside Michelangelo look inside Michelangelo (Art and Ideas) look inside Michelangelo and the Renaissance look inside Michelangelo: The Vatican Frescoes look inside Masters of Art: Michelangelo look inside Michelangelo: The Frescoes of Sistine Chapel look inside Michelangelo Architect look inside Michelangelo: The Last Judgement - A Glorious Restoration look inside Michelangelo: Sculptor look inside Rodin and Michelangelo: A Study in Artistic Inspiration look inside Michelangelo: the Pieta