Arts

Chalking It Up

The ideas Michelangelo committed to paper were themselves glimpses of heaven

By Ingrid D. Rowland | September 3, 2019
Sketches by Michelangelo
This figure, drawn with red chalk and highlighted with white lead, would later appear on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. (Teylers Museum, Haarlem)
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Ingrid D. Rowland is a professor in the Department of History and the School of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame. Her many books include The Culture of the High Renaissance, From Pompeii: The Afterlife of a Roman Town, and the forthcoming Lies of the Artists.

 

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