Michelangelo destroyed many of his sketches, intending them for his eyes only. Of the hundreds of drawing sheets he created for the Sistine Chapel ceiling, fewer than 50 survive today. Discover nearly half of those sketches in Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine, on view March 6th-May 28th in the newly renovated and expanded Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine’ pairs loans from...
Brian Siegel, Global Arts, Culture & Heritage Executive, Bank of America, tells Arts & Collections how the financial institution brings art to its local communities For more than 50 years, Bank of America (BofA) and our predecessor institutions have been collecting art as way to enhance our corporate offices and to demonstrate our connection with the local communities we serve. Today, that collection has grown to more than 30,000 works of art, including paintings, fine...
As quickly as it was rediscovered, a painting believed to be a lost work of Renaissance master Michelangelo has disappeared, a matter of days before experts were due to examine it. The 16th-century artwork depicts Mary, Joseph and a sleeping baby Jesus and had been undisturbed in a dark corner of the Sin Ludgerus church in the small Flemish town of Zele. Upon his discovery, pastor Jan Van Raemdonck, 61, noted the startling similarities between...
