MICHELANGELO DI LODOVICO BUONARROTI SIMONI
37 × 53 3/8 in.
Provenance
Mural drawing in situ since its making at Villa Michelangiolo, Settignano, c. 1503;detached from the wall, 1979;
Private collection, Florence.
Exhibitions
Rome, Musei Capitolini, Michelangelo 1564-2014, 27 May 2014 – 14 September 2014.New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman & Designer, 13November 13 2017 – 12 February 2018, no. 37.
Literature
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A. Francesco Gori, in Vita di Michelagnolo Buonarroti: Pittore, scultore, architetto e gentiluomo fiorentino, A. Condivi (ed), Second edition, Firenze 1746, p. 99;
G. Vasari, Vite de’ piu eccellenti pittori, scultori e architetti, G. Gaetano Bottari (ed), Roma 1760, vol. 3, p. 349;
E.R. Eastlake, Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake, London 1895, pp. 104-5;
H. Thode, Michelangelo: Kritische Untersuchungen über seine Werke, Berlin 1908, vol. 1, p. 5, no. 1;
B. Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, Chicago 1938, p. 174, no. 1462A;
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G. Bonsanti, in Il primato del disegno, P. Tofani (ed), exh. cat., Firenze 1980, p. 143, no. 301;
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Bonsanti, “The Mural Drawings in Michelangelo’s
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C.C. Bambach, “A Neglected Work by Michelangelo: The Fragment of a Mural Drawing at the Villa Michelangiolo in Settignano,” in Renaissance Studies in Honor of Joseph Connors, M. Israëls and L. A. Waldman (eds), Florence 2013,
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C.C. Bambach, “La ‘Virtu’ dei Disegni del Giovane Michelangelo”, in Michelangelo 1564-2014, exh. cat., Roma 2014, p. 54; C.C. Bambach, “Michelangelo Divine Draftsman & Designer”, exh. cat., New York 2018, p. 293, no. 37.