Michelangelos

Michelangelo’s unfinished £100m masterpiece could be sold to save 150 gallery jobs

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Michelangelo’s unfinished £100m masterpiece could be sold to save 150 gallery jobs at Royal Academy of Arts The Taddei Tondo is the only marble sculpture by Michelangelo in the UK The 515-year-old sculpture, features the infant St John the Baptist, and the infant Christ with the Virgin Mary  It was given to the London gallery … Read more

The Painted Hall fails to inspire anything like the awe that Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel does

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Sadly, even now after the £8.5 million restoration, the Painted Hall fails to inspire anything like the awe that Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel does By Alastair Smart Published: 22:01 GMT, 18 May 2019 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 18 May 2019 The Painted Hall Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich Rating: Well, there can be no faulting the … Read more