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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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Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Michelangelo Buonarroti at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
2 pen and ink studies for the Sistine Chapel
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
Michelangelo Buonarroti in the Louvre Museum Database, Paris (only available in French)
2 sculptures and many drawings online
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, New York City
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
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 NEW!
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
Art Fund for UK Museums
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 NEW!
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, Italy
Cleopatra
National Gallery of Australia
Study for the Resurrection of Christ, ca.1532-34
National Gallery of Australia
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, Vienna (in German)
3 drawings online
The British Museum, London, UK NEW!
Online tour: Michelangelo's drawings
The British Museum, London, UK NEW!
Online tour: Michelangelo: money and medals
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Cast of David, with fig leaf added for the benefit of Queen Victoria
Professional Tools:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
Scroll down to signature 313
Artarchiv Sample Artist Symbols + Monograms
Scroll down to monogram 691
Pictures from Image Archives:
Art Renewal Center
Artchive
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: The Delphic Sibyl
CGFA
Insecula
Spain Ministry of Education and Science Imagebank (in Spanish)
Web Gallery of Art
WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
1200 Years of Italian Sculpture (mostly in Italian)
Aiwaz Panopticon NEW!
Archker's Fantasy Art Gallery
Artyzm
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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
(Set the size to "original" to see images at their highest resolution)
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Web Sites About the Artist:
Deborah Trofatter's Michelangelo Buonarroti Site
Michelangelo Web Design
Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475-1564
The Digital Michelangelo Project
A group working to digitize Michelangelo's sculptures in 3 dimensions
Other Web Sites:
Art Museum Image Consortium
Study for the Nude Youth over the Prophet Daniel
ArtWatch International
(Free registration required)
Before and After Restoration: The Sistine Chapel Ceiling
ArtWatch International
(Free registration required)
ArtWatch is calling for an immediate halt to the restoration of Michelangelo's statue group known as Victory
ArtWatch International
(Free registration required)
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 NEW!
Articles:
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
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
Pieta Rondanini
Artnet Magazine
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.
Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Publishers
Lengthy excerpt from from the book, Michelangelo: The Complete Sculpture, Painting, Architecture
International Herald Tribune
"The Young Michelangelo," article by Roderick Conway Morris
International Herald Tribune
"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
Moses, 1513-16
Time Magazine
"Out of Grime, a Domain of Light", 1987 article by Robert Hughes
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