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In the Footsteps of Michelangelo, in Z. Kárpáti, ed., "Triumph of the Body: Michelangelo and Sixteenth-century Italian Draughtsmanship", exh. cat., Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, 2019.

On 18 February 1564, just two weeks before his eighty-ninth birthday, Michelangelo Buonarroti passed away in Rome, surrounded by his closest friends. It was not his death, however, that assured the master a place of excellence in the Pantheon of the arts: indeed, even in his lifetime, he was lauded as the unsurpassed champion of his century. 1 Even after 1564, Michelangelo's lessons in art continued to gather strength, albeit unsteadily.

Michelangelo: Mind of the Master. Emily J. Peters and Julian Brooks. Exh. cat. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press; Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2020. xx + 144 pp. $40

Renaissance Quarterly, 2021

Particularly fascinating are the essays on spectral imaging by a conservation team headed by John K. Delaney and on X-radiography of bronzes by Dylan Smith. Both allowed penetration of the outside surface to analyze how the objects were made. In paintings like the Baptism of Christ (Uffizi, Florence), the underground revealed that different artists, using diverse materials, had painted separate areas of the painting, as has long been argued on connoisseurship grounds. Conservator Dylan Smith's testing of the bronzes suggests that Verrocchio's changes in alloy compound and evolving skill in casting provide other means of dating his sculptures. He showed changes made to the bronze sculpture in process, such as armature modifications to support limbs in altered positions. He advanced new arguments about the casting of the bronze details of the tomb of Giovanni and Piero de' Medici and hypothesized that, after Verrocchio's death, Giovanni d'Andrea, a member of Verrocchio's shop, finished the equestrian statue of Colleoni in Venice, with Leopardi as the caster. These reinforcing studies provide the basis for rethinking Verrocchio's career.

'Certain of Death': Michelangelo's Late Life and Art

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