Michelangelo's interpretation of the Pietà is unique to the precedents.

Elsewhere, Charon appears as a cranky, skinny old man or as a winged demon wielding a double hammer, although Michelangelo's interpretation, influenced by Dante's depiction in Inferno, canto 3, shows him with an oar over his shoulder, ready to beat those who delay (“ batte col remo qualunque s ' adagia ”, Inferno 3, verse 111 ).

* Michelangelo's Pieta in St Peter's Basilica

Hupka was also the author of Michelangelo: Pieta, a collection of a hundred photographs, from various angles and with different lighting, of Michelangelo's Pieta, taken in 1964 when this sculpture was exhibited at the New York World's Fair.

In an article in the November 8, 1993 article of Time Magazine, cloning was portrayed in a negative way, modifying Michelangelo's Creation of Adam to depict Adam with five identical hands.

The Louvre has been a repository of sculpted material since its time as a palace ; however, only ancient architecture was displayed until 1824, except for Michelangelo's Dying Slave and Rebellious Slave.

As in painting, early Italian Mannerist sculpture was very largely an attempt to find an original style that would top the achievement of the High Renaissance, which in sculpture essentially meant Michelangelo, and much of the struggle to achieve this was played out in commissions to fill other places in the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, next to Michelangelo's David.

Michelangelo's claim was supported at the time by the reigning Count of Canossa.

In a demonstration of Michelangelo's unique standing, he was the first Western artist whose biography was published while he was alive.

One of the qualities most admired by his contemporaries was his terribilità, a sense of awe-inspiring grandeur, and it was the attempts of subsequent artists to imitate Michelangelo's impassioned and highly personal style that resulted in Mannerism, the next major movement in Western art after the High Renaissance.

At the time of Michelangelo's birth, his father was the Judicial administrator of the small town of Caprese and local administrator of Chiusi.

Michelangelo's mother was Francesca di Neri del Miniato di Siena.

Several months after Michelangelo's birth, the family returned to Florence, where Michelangelo was raised.

Michelangelo's Pietà ( Michelangelo ) | Pietà, a depiction of the body of Jesus on the lap of his mother Saint Mary | Mary after the Crucifixion, was carved in 1499, when the sculptor was 24 years old.

Michelangelo's house was demolished in 1874, and the remaining architectural elements saved by the new proprietors were destroyed in 1930.

The tomb, of which the central feature is Michelangelo's statue of Moses, was never finished to Michelangelo's satisfaction.

After Michelangelo's death, it was decided to obscure the genitals (" Pictura in Cappella Ap. ca coopriantur ").

On 7 December 2007, Michelangelo's red chalk sketch for the dome of St Peter's Basilica, his last before his death in 1564, was discovered in the Vatican archives.

Michelangelo's own tomb in which he was interred in February 1564, at Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence

The " Madonna and Child " was Michelangelo's own work.

The concealed corridor with wall drawings of Michelangelo's under the New Sacristy was discovered in 1976.

Raphael was clearly influenced by Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling in the course of painting the room.

Most of his work there was altered or demolished after his death and the acceptance of Michelangelo's design, but a few drawings have survived.

Wöllflin detects the influence of the Madonna in Michelangelo's Doni Tondo in the kneeling figure on the right, but the rest of the composition is far removed from his style, or that of Leonardo.

In his 1990 speech to Kenyon College graduates, Watterson revealed that during his last year he had painted Michelangelo's Creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel on the ceiling of his dorm room:

Ignudi from Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling

The Libyan Sibyl from Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling

Michelangelo's painting of the sin of Adam and Eve from the Sistine Chapel ceiling

The history of the statue begins before Michelangelo's work on it from 1501 to 1504.

* The Agony and the Ecstasy, Irving Stone's novelization of Michelangelo's life, depicts the events in Florence from the Medici's point of view.

A group of officers aboard the imperial yacht gave her older sister Olga a portrait of Michelangelo's nude David, cut out from a newspaper, as a present for her name day on 11 July 1911.

In 1508 Michelangelo's image of the Israelites deliverance from the plague of serpents by the creation of the bronze serpent on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Another explanation suggests that Michelangelo's treatment of the subject was influenced by his passion for Dante's Divina Commedia: so well-acquainted was he with the work that when he went to Bologna he paid for hospitality by reciting verses from it.

Michelangelo's two Slaves were among the rich appointments of the château Richelieu, where there were the Nativity triptych by Dürer and paintings by Mantegna, Lorenzo Costa and Perugino, lifted from the Gonzaga collection at Mantua by French military forces in 1630, as well as numerous antiquities.

In the 1970s, Novello started to write letters to famous people under the pen name of Lazlo Toth ( name taken from that of Laszlo Toth, a deranged man who vandalized Michelangelo's Pietà in Rome ).

In Florence, he visited Michelangelo's Laurentian Library, to see first-hand the library ’ s vestibule, from which he drew further inspiration for the murals.

Michelangelo's first designs for the piazza and remodeling of the surrounding palazzi date from 1536.

Executing the design was slow: Little was actually completed in Michelangelo's lifetime ( the ‘’ Cordonata ’’ was not in place when Emperor Charles arrived, and the imperial party had to scramble up the slope from the Forum to view the works in progress ), but work continued faithfully to his designs and the Campidoglio was completed in the 17th century, except for the paving design, which was to be finished three centuries later.

Although the ceiling is riotously rich in illusionistic elements, the narratives are framed in the restrained classicism of High Renaissance decoration, drawing inspiration from, yet more immediate and intimate, than Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling as well as Raphael's Vatican Logge and Villa Farnesina frescoes.

According to Ann Sutherland Harris, " The Galleria frescoes make even more extensive use of ancient sculptural and architectural sources, and in addition take their basic structure from two ceilings by the most prestigious artists of the High Renaissance in Rome, the Loggia of Psyche by Raphael and Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling ".

He studied more especially from models of Michelangelo's Dawn, Noon, Twilight and Night, and became expert in modelling in wax and clay method ( practised likewise by Titian ) which afterwards stood him in good stead in working out the arrangement of his pictures.

The brand image of the programme is an animated version of a detail from Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling painting, specifically the image of the Hand of God giving life to Adam.

Many sculptures of the Renaissance, such as Michelangelo's David ( 1501-04 ), were carved from Carrara marble.

According to a letter of Guglielmo della Porta, the head had been recovered separately, from a well in Trastevere, and was bought for Farnese through the agency of della Porta, whose legs made to complete the figure were so well regarded that when the original legs were recovered from ongoing excavations in the Baths of Caracalla, della Porta's were retained, on Michelangelo's advice, in part to demonstrate that modern sculptors could bear direct comparison with the ancients.

The inspiration for Michelangelo's treatment of the subject may come from a medieval hymn called Veni Creator Spiritus, which asks the ' finger of the paternal right hand ' ( digitus paternae dexterae ) to give the faithful speech.