2024 marks 460 years since the death of Michelangelo at the age of 88. Art historian Laura Johnson discusses this perplexing and amazing man who was not only an extraordinary artist, but also a forger and a wanted man. Learn how he used discarded marble to sculpt the David statue of Florence as a political, anti-Medici statement, and about the Moses statue, related to the Protestant Reformation. The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel reveals Michelangelo’s self-portrait and his heretical religious beliefs, with the artwork on the Council of Trent’s censored list.
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