Michelangelo's Medici Chapel
Neoplatonism
Italian Sculpture
Michelangelo buonarroti, 1475-1564
Tombs
Criticism and interpretation
There are no surviving documents that explain Michelangelo's complex sculptural program for the Medici Chapel. The work as we have it is no more than an unfinished, fragmentary realization of the artist's original conception. Speculation about its meaning began quite early, for Michelangelo's contem…
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