Michelangelo 500

Fabio Scaletti is a noted art historian and writer who specialises in Italian Renaissance art. He is an expert on the artist Caravaggio and is the author of the catalogue raisonné on Caravaggio (Caravaggio: catalogo ragionato delle opera autgrafe, attribuite, e controverse. Naples: Artstudiopaparo, 2017). He has also written extensively on Raphael, Leonardo, and Michelangelo. He lives in Milan.

• IntroductionMICHELANGELO THE SCULPTORThe First Works of Casa BuonarrotiThe Wooden Crucifix for the PrioreThe Ark of Saint DominicThe Upset in RomeThe Only Signed MasterpieceThe Giant for the SignoriaA Virgin with Child to be exportedTwo Madonnas in the TondoA Forty-Year-Long “Tragedy”A Sculpture made in Miniature and a Fine CopyHercules and the AdolescentThe Medici Tombs in San LorenzoThe “Political” Statues in the Bargello MuseumExtreme Meditations in SculptureAttributed and Lost SculpturesMICHELANGELO THE PAINTERDrawings by the “Old Masters”Half of Michelangelo at the National Gallery in LondonThe Dismembered and Lost CartoonA Pictorial Unicum at the Uffizi GalleryThe MasterpieceThe Scandalous Painting Condemned to the StakePontormo as Translator of BuonarrotiTo the Aid of FriendsThe Memorable Return to the Sistine ChapelSigned GiftsThe Last Pictorial EnterprisePaintings and Drawings Attributed and LostMICHELANGELO THE ARCHITECTArchitect in FlorenceArchitect in RomeLife in briefBibliographical Indications