Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman & Designer | Met Exhibitions

Watch a video preview of the exhibition Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman & Designer, on view at The Met Fifth Avenue from November 13, 2017 through February 12, 2018.

Featuring Carmen Bambach, Curator, Drawings and Prints, The Met

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564), a towering genius in the history of Western art, will be the subject of this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition. During his long life, Michelangelo was celebrated for the excellence of his disegno, the power of drawing and invention that provided the foundation for all the arts. For his mastery of drawing, design, sculpture, painting, and architecture, he was called Il Divino ("the divine one") by his contemporaries. His powerful imagery and dazzling technical virtuosity transported viewers and imbued all of his works with a staggering force that continues to enthrall us today.

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The exhibition is made possible by Morgan Stanley.

Additional support is provided by an anonymous donor, the Gail and Parker Gilbert Fund, the Diane W. and James E. Burke Fund, Dinah Seiver and Thomas E. Foster, Cathrin M. Stickney and Mark P. Gorenberg, Ann M. Spruill and Daniel H. Cantwell, and Mark Pigott KBE Family.

The catalogue is made possible by the Drue E. Heinz Fund.

Additional support is provided by the Wolfgang Ratjen Stiftung, Liechtenstein.


Production Credits:

Director: Kate Farrell
Producer: Melissa Bell
Interviewer: Christopher Noey
Editor: Sarah Cowan
Camera: Sarah Cowan, Dia Felix
Lighting: Dia Felix
Production Coordinator: Kaelan Burkett
Production Assistants: Bryan Martin, Liam O’Connell
Original Music: Austin Fisher


Images courtesy of:

© Albertina, Vienna

Archivio Fotografico Gallerie dell’Accademia, Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo. Museo Nazionale Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia, Gabinetto dei disegni e stampe

© Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

Casa Buonarroti, Florence, photo by Antonio Quattrone

French State, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs

Gabinetto Fotografico delle Gallerie degli Uffizi

Imaging Department © President and Fellows of Harvard College

J. Paul Getty Museum Open Content Program

Ministero dei Beni e delle Attivita Culturali e del Turismo, Musei Reali - Biblioteca Reale, Torino

© Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Suzanne Nagy

Museo Nazionale del Bargello, photo by Antonio Quattrone

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, photo by Studio Tromp, Rotterdam

© RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY, photo by Michèle Bellot

© RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY, photo by Gérard Blot

© RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY, photo by Thierry Le Mage

Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017

© The Trustees of the British Museum


© 2017 The Metropolitan Museum of Art