Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Sketches Are Coming to America
While preparing to fresco the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling, Italian artist Michelangelo created hundreds—possibly thousands—of small sketches to work out the design. He destroyed many of those preliminary drawings—which were never intended for public view—before his death in 1564. Less than 50 remain in existence today. Now, 25 of the rare sketches are coming to the […]