List of works by Michelangelo

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The following is a list of works of painting, sculpture and architecture by the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo. Lost works are included, but not commissions that Michelangelo never made. Michelangelo also left many drawings, sketches, and some works in poetry.

Sculpture

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Image

!Title

!Year

!Location

!Material

!Dimensions

File:Calco della testa di satiro attr. al buonarroti e rubato dal bargello nel 1944.JPG

|Head of a Faun

|{{circa|1489–1494}}{{cite web |url=http://www.nndb.com/people/977/000024905/ |title=Michelangelo |access-date=18 March 2011 |work=NNDB}}

|Lost in 1944

|Marble
Plaster cast

|

File:Buonarotti-scala.jpg

|Madonna of the Stairs

|{{circa|1491}}

|Casa Buonarroti, Florence

|Marble

|55.5 × 40 cm

File:Michelangelo, centauromachia, 1492 ca. 01.JPG

|Battle of the Centaurs

|{{circa|1492}}

|Casa Buonarroti, Florence

|Marble

|84.5 × 90.5 cm

File:Rubens, copia dell'ercole di michelangelo, louvre.jpg

|Hercules (in Italian)

|{{circa|1492–1493}}

|Lost

|Marble
Copy by Peter Paul Rubens

|{{center|{{--}}}}

File:Installazione florens 2012 crocifisso michelangelo 01.JPG

|Crucifix

|{{circa|1493}}

|Santo Spirito, Florence

|Polychrome wood

|142 × 135 cm

File:Autori vari, arca di san domenico, protettori di bologna, 02 petronio di michelangelo, 1494, 2.jpg

|Saint Petronius from the Ark of Saint Dominic

|1494–1495

|Basilica of San Domenico, Bologna

|Marble

|height 64 cm

File:Autori vari, arca di san domenico, protettori di bologna, 02 procolo di michelangelo, 1494.jpg

|Saint Proculus from the Ark of Saint Dominic

|1494–1495

|Basilica of San Domenico, Bologna

|Marble

|height 58.5 cm

File:Autori vari, arca di san domenico, angelo reggicandelabro di michelangelo, 1494, 01.jpg

|Angel from the Ark of Saint Dominic

|1494–1495

|Basilica of San Domenico, Bologna

|Marble

|height 51.5 cm

File:Giulio romano, giove, national gallery di londra, forse copia del cupido di michelangelo.jpg

|Sleeping Cupid

| 1496

| Lost{{when?|date=October 2024}}

| Marble
possibly a copy by Giulio Romano

| {{center|{{--}}}}

File:Michelangelo Bacchus.jpg

|Bacchus

|1496–1497

|Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence

|Marble

|height 203 cm

File:Michelangelo, studio forse per il cupido-apollo, louvre 2.jpg

|Cupid Apollo (in Italian)

| 1497

| Lost

| Marble
possibly a study for the Standing Cupid

|

File:Michelangelo's Pieta 5450 cropncleaned edit.jpg

|Pietà

|1498–1499

|St. Peter's Basilica, Rome

|Marble

|height 174 cm, width at the base 195 cm

File:'David' by Michelangelo Fir JBU002.jpg

|David

|1501–1504

|Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence

|Marble

|height {{convert|5.17|m|ft|abbr=off|sp=us}}

File:Madonna michelangelo1.jpg

|Madonna and Child (Madonna of Bruges)

|1501–1504

|Church of Our Lady, Bruges

|Marble

|height 128 cm

File:Michelangelo,_studio_per_il_david_de_rohan,_louvre.jpg

|David De Rohan (in Italian)

|1502–1508

|Lost

|Bronze

|

File:Michelangelo.St Peter.Duomo di Siena.jpg

|Saint Paul

|1503–1504

|Cathedral, Siena

|Marble

|

File:Michelangelo, san pietro 01.JPG

|Saint Peter

|1503–1504

|Cathedral, Siena

|Marble

|

File:Michelangelo, san pio 02.jpg

|Saint Pius

|1503–1504

|Cathedral, Siena

|Marble

|

File:Michelangelo, san gregorio 01.JPG

|Saint Gregory

|1503–1504

|Cathedral, Siena

|Marble

|

File:Pitti Tondo (casting in Pushkin museum) by shakko 01.jpg

|Madonna and Child (Tondo Pitti)

|c. 1503 – 1504

|Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence

|Marble

|85,8 × 82 cm

File:Michelangelo, tondo taddei, 1504-05 ca. 01.JPG

|Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John (Taddei Tondo)

|c. 1504 – 1506

|Royal Academy of Arts, London

|Marble/Coon (a type of graphite)

|diameter 82.5 cm

File:'St Matthew' by Michelangelo - JBU 02.jpg

|Saint Matthew

|c. 1505

|Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence

|Marble

|height 271 cm

File:'Moses' by Michelangelo JBU010.jpg

|Tomb of Pope Julius II

|1505–1545Underwent six different phases, in 1505, 1513, 1516, 1525–1526, 1532 and 1542

|San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome

|

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| Statue of Julius II (destroyed 1511)

| 1508

| Formerly Basilica of San Petronio, Bologna

| Bronze

| {{center|{{--}}}}

File:'Moses' by Michelangelo JBU160.jpg

|Moses

|c. 1513–1515

|San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome

|

|

File:Michelangelo-The Rebellious Slave.jpg

|Rebellious Slave

|1513–1516

|Louvre, Paris

|Marble

|height 215 cm

File:Dying slave Louvre MR 1590.jpg

|Dying Slave

|1513–1516

|Louvre, Paris

|Marble

|height 229 cm

File:BLW_Model_of_a_slave2.jpg

|Young Slave scale model (in Italian)

| {{circa|1520}}

|Victoria & Albert Museum, London

|Wax

|height 16,5 cm

File:Michelangelo - Young slave.jpg

|Young Slave

| 1520–1523

|Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze, Florence

|Marble

|height 256 cm

File:Michelangelo - Atlas.jpg

|Atlas Slave

|1520–1523

|Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze, Florence

|Marble

|height 277 cm

File:Michelangelo - Awakening slave.jpg

|Awakening Slave

|1520–1523

|Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze, Florence

|Marble

|height 267 cm

File:Michelangelo - Bearded slave.jpg

|Bearded Slave

|1520–1523

|Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze, Florence

|Marble

|height 263 cm

File:Michelangelo's Madonna Medici (casting in Pushkin museum) by shakko 01.jpg

|Medici Madonna

|1521–1534

|Medici Chapel, Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence

|Marble

|height 226 cm

File:Michelangelo,_due_lottatori,_1530_circa_02.JPG

|Scale model for two Fighters {{in lang|es}}

|{{circa|1525}}

|Casa Buonarroti, Florence

|Clay

|height 41 cm

File:Michelangelo-Genius of Victory-Palazzo vecchio.jpg

|The Genius of Victory

|c. 1532–1534

|Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

|Marble

|height 261 cm

File:Michelangelo-Rachel.jpg

|Rachel

|1545

|San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome

|Marble

|height 209 cm

File:Michelangelo-Leah.jpg

|Leah

|1545

|San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome

|Marble

|height 197 cm

File:Life of Michael Angelo, 1912 - Tomb of Giulino de Medici.jpg

|Tomb of Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours (in Italian), Night and Day

|c. 1526 – 1534

|Medici Chapel, Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence

|

|

File:Life of Michael Angelo, 1912 - Monument of Lorenzo de Medici.jpg

|Tomb of Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (in Italian), Dusk and Dawn(also known as Evening and Morning)

|c. 1524 – 1534

|Medici Chapel, Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence

|

|

File:Michelangelo, apollino 01.jpg

|Apollo

|c. 1530

|Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence

|Marble

|height 146 cm

File:Michelangelo-Buonarroti-Crouching Boy-Hermitage.jpg

|Crouching Boy

|c. 1530 – 1534

|State Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

|Marble

|height 54 cm

File:Michelangelo-Christ the Redeemer.jpg

|Cristo della Minerva (Christ Carrying the Cross)

|1519–1520

|church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome

|Marble

|height 205 cm

File:Michelangelo Brutus.jpg

|Brutus

|1538

|Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence

|Marble

|height 95 cm

File:Pieta Bandini Opera Duomo Florence n01.jpg

|Florentine Pietà

|c. 1547 – 1553

|Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence

|Marble

|height 253 cm

File:Michelangelo pietà rondanini.jpg

|Rondanini Pietà

|1552–1564Unfinished

|Castello Sforzesco, Milan

|Marble

|height 195 cm

Attributed sculpture

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!Title

!Year

!Location

!Material

!Dimensions

File:Christ of Guadalupe.jpg

|Christ of Guadalupe

|1560

|Guadalupe, Cáceres, Spain

|Ivory

|20 cm

File:Michelangelo (attr.), giovane arciere, 1491-92 ca. 01.JPG

|Young Archer (in Italian)

|{{circa|1491–1492}}

|Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

|Marble

|height 97 cm

File:Michelangelo buonarroti (attr.), venere con amorino, 1491 ca..JPG

|Venus and Cupid (in Italian)

|{{circa|1491–1492}}

|Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence

|Marble

|43,5x58 cm

File:Crocifisso_attribuito_a_Michelangelo2.jpg

|Gallino Crucifix (in Italian)

|{{circa|1495–1497}}

|Bargello Museum, Florence

|Wood

|41,3×39,7 cm

|Young Saint John the Baptist {{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/01/arts/design/scholar-says-a-church-statue-from-spain-is-by-michelangelo.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0|title=The New York Times|date=30 June 2013 |access-date=24 November 2015 |last1=Povoledo |first1=Elisabetta }}

|{{circa|1495–1497}}

|Sacred Chapel of El Salvador, Úbeda

|Marble

|height 130 cm

File:Crucifix - Basílica de Montserrat - Montserrat 2014.JPG

|Crucifix of Montserrat {{in lang|es}}

|{{circa|1497–1498}}

|Santa Maria de Montserrat Abbey, Monistrol de Montserrat

|Ivory

|

File:After michelangelo, nudo virile (from original work of 1501-1503) 2.JPG

|Naked man I (in Italian)

|{{circa|1501–1504}}

|Casa Buonarroti, Florence

|Terracotta

|height 49 cm

File:Piazza della signoria angolo via della ninna, palazzo vecchio, cantonata con testa scolpita 02.jpg

|Importuno di Michelangelo

|c. 1504

|Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

|Pietraforte

|

File:Michelangelo (alleged) bronze at Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.jpg

|Rothschild Bronzes{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/feb/02/michelangelo-bronzes-sculptures-fitzwilliam-museum-cambridge|title=Michelangelo's bronze panther-riders revealed after 'Renaissance whodunnit' | Art and design | The Guardian|newspaper=The Guardian |date=2 February 2015 |publisher=theguardian.com|access-date=24 November 2015 |last1=Brown |first1=Mark }}

|1506–1508

|Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England

|Bronze

|

File:Michelangelo,_torso_virile,_1513_circa.JPG

|Male torso I (in Italian)

|{{circa|1513}}

|Casa Buonarroti, Florence

|Terracotta

|height 23 cm

File:Michelangelo,_torso_virile,_1513_circa,_1.JPG

|Male torso II (in Italian)

|{{circa|1513}}

|Casa Buonarroti, Florence

|Terracotta

|height 22,5 cm

File:Michelangelo,_nudo_femminile,_terracotta,_1533_circa_05.JPG

|Naked woman scale model (in Italian)

|{{circa|1513 or 1532}}

|Casa Buonarroti, Florence

|Terracotta

|height 35 cm

File:Cristo_portacroce_michelangelo2.jpg

|Cristo della Minerva (first version?) (in Wikimedia)

|{{circa|1514–1516}}

|San Vincenzo, Bassano Romano

|Marble

|

File:Michelangelo Pietà Palestri.jpg

|Palestrina PietàThe attribution of this work to Michelangelo is disputed.

|{{circa|1555}}

|Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence

|Marble

|height 253 cm

File:Michelangelo, crocifisso in legno, 1562 ca. 02.JPG

|Scale model for a Crucifix

|{{circa|1562}}

|

|Wood

|height 20,5 cm

Painting

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! Details

! Notes

File:entombment Michelangelo.jpg

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: The Entombment

: c. 1500 – 1501

: Tempera on panel

: {{convert|162|x|150|cm|in|abbr=on}}

: National Gallery, London

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File:Tondo Doni, por Miguel Ángel.jpg

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: Doni Tondo

: (The Holy Family)

: c. 1503 – 1506{{cite web|url=http://www.artbible.info/art/large/508.html|title=Michelangelo Buonarroti: The Holy Family|publisher=artbible.info|access-date=24 November 2015}}

: Oil and tempera on panel

: {{convert|120|cm|in|abbr=on}} diameter

: Uffizi, Florence

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Image:Battagliadicascina.jpg{{center|{{small|(copy by Aristotile da Sangallo)}}}}

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: The Battle of Cascina

: 1504

: Lost

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: An unfinished fresco that was to be painted in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, in competition with Leonardo da Vinci's The Battle of Anghiari

File:Creación de Adán.jpg{{center|{{small|Detail: The Creation of Adam}}}}

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: Sistine Chapel ceiling

: 1508–1512

: Fresco

: Sistine Chapel, Rome

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File:Rome Sistine Chapel 01.jpg

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: The Last Judgment

: 1536–1541

: Fresco

: {{convert|1,370|×|1,200|cm|in|abbr=on}}

: Sistine Chapel, Rome

|

File:Da michelangelo, leda e il cigno, post 1530 (national gallery) 01.jpg{{center|{{small|(copy by Peter Paul Rubens)}}}}

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: Leda and the Swan

: c. 1530

: Egg tempera on panel

: Lost

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File:Conversion of Saint Paul (Michelangelo Buonarroti).jpg

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: The Conversion of Saul

: c. 1542 – 1545

: Fresco

: {{convert|625|x|661|cm|in|abbr=on}}

: Cappella Paolina, Vatican Palace, Rome

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File:Martyrdom Michelangelo.jpg

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: The Crucifixion of Saint Peter

: c. 1546 – 1550

: Fresco

: {{convert|625|x|662|cm|in|abbr=on}}

: Cappella Paolina, Vatican Palace, Rome

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Attributed paintings

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! Notes

File:Michelangelo Buonarroti - The Torment of Saint Anthony - Google Art Project.jpg

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: The Torment of Saint Anthony

: c. 1487 – 1488[https://www.kimbellart.org/News/News-Article.aspx?nid=119 Earliest Known Painting by Michelangelo Acquired By the Kimbell Art Museum] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304032229/https://www.kimbellart.org/News/News-Article.aspx?nid=119 |date=4 March 2012 }}, Kimbell Art Museum, 13 May 2009, retrieved 13 May 2009.

: Oil and tempera on panel

: {{convert|47|×|35|cm|in|frac=4|abbr=on}}

: Kimbell Art Museum, purchased from Sotheby's auction, Catalogue of Old Masters sale (Lot No. 69), 9 July 2008 by Adam Williams Fine Art, New York, as "Workshop of Domenico Ghirlandaio". Subsequently purchased by the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas and attributed to Michelangelo.Provenance details at https://www.kimbellart.org/Collections/Collections-Detail.aspx?P=&TypeID=&Focus=&cid=8666&prov=true&cons=false#prov {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629131821/https://www.kimbellart.org/Collections/Collections-Detail.aspx?P=&TypeID=&Focus=&cid=8666&prov=true&cons=false#prov |date=29 June 2011 }}{{Cite web |title=Michelangelo's First Painting. – Free Online Library |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Michelangelo%27s+First+Painting.-a0240916107 |access-date=4 April 2024 |website=www.thefreelibrary.com}}

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File:Michelangelo manchaster.jpg

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: Madonna and Child with Saint John and Angels

: (The Manchester Madonna)

: c. 1497

: Tempera on panel

: {{convert|105|x|76|cm|in|abbr=on}}

: National Gallery, London

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Architecture

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!Building

!City

!Notes

File:Cortile dell'angelo, con la cappella dei santi cosma e damiano di leone X, 04.JPG

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: Chapel of Leo X

: Castel Sant'Angelo

: 1514–1515

| Rome

|

File:Michelangelo, modello per la facciata di san lorenzo, 1518 ca. 01.JPG{{center|(model in Casa Buonarroti)}}

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: Facade for the Basilica of San Lorenzo

: Basilica of San Lorenzo

: 1516–1520

| Florence

| Unexecuted

File:Firenze Sagrestia Nuova.jpg

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: New Sacristy (Medici Chapel)

: Basilica of San Lorenzo

: 1520–1534

| Florence

|

File:Biblioteca medicea laurenziana, sala di lettura di michelangelo, 01.jpg

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: Laurentian Library

: Basilica of San Lorenzo

: 1523–1559

| Florence

|

File:Michelangelo, studio per porta san gallo.jpg

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: Plans for new City fortifications

: 1528–1529

| Florence

|

File:San_lorenzo,_tribuna_delle_reliquie_di_michelangelo,_02.JPG

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:Tribune for the Relics

: Basilica of San Lorenzo

:1531–1532

| Florence

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File:Campidoglio Roma.jpg

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: Piazza del Campidoglio complex

: Capitoline Hill

: 1536–1546

| Rome

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File:Palais Farnese.jpg

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: Palazzo Farnese

: 1546

| Rome

|

File:L’Architecture de la Renaissance - Fig. 13.PNG

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: Plans for St. Peter's Basilica (especially for the dome)

: 1546–1564

| Rome

|

File:Michelangelo, project for san Giovanni de' Fiorentini 01.JPG

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: Plans for San Giovanni dei Fiorentini

: 1559–1560

| Rome

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File:Cappella sforza, su dis. di michelangelo (1562-73) 01.JPG

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: Sforza Chapel

: Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore

: c. 1560

| Rome

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File:Porta Pia - internal side.jpg

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: Porta Pia

: 1561–1565

| Rome

|

File:3223 - Roma - Santa Maria degli Angeli - Interno - Foto Giovanni Dall'Orto 17-June-2007.jpg

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: Interior remodeling of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri

: 1563–1564

| Rome

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Presentation drawings and cartoons

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!Details

!Notes

File:Dreamofhumanlife.jpg

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: The Dream of Human Life

: {{circa|1533}}

: Black chalk on laid paper

: 39.8 × 27.8 cm

: Courtauld Institute of Art, London{{cite web|url=http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/images/gallery/db9ad1a9.html |title=The Dream (Il Sogno) |work=A&A |publisher=Courtuald Institute of Art |access-date=1 November 2012}}

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File:Michelangelo, caduta di fetonte.jpg

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: The Fall of Phaëthon

: 1533

: 31.2 × 21.5 cm

: British Museum, London

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File:Pietà per Vittoria Colonna.jpg

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: Pietà for Vittoria Colonna

: {{circa|1538–44}}

: Black chalk on paper

: 28.9 × 18.9 cm

: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston{{cite web |url=http://www.gardnermuseum.org/collection/artwork/2nd_floor/short_gallery/pieta_michelangelo |title=Pietà |publisher=Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum |access-date=1 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120801000935/http://www.gardnermuseum.org/collection/artwork/2nd_floor/short_gallery/pieta_michelangelo |archive-date=1 August 2012 |url-status=dead }}

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File:Miguel Angel Crucifixion drawing.jpg

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: Crucified Christ

: {{circa|1541}}

: 36.8 × 26.8 cm

: British Museum, London

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File:Michelangelo Epifania.jpg

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: Epifania

: {{circa|1550–3}}

: 232.7 × 165.6 cm

: British Museum, London

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File:'Madonna del Silenzio' by Michelangelo Buonarroti, c. 1538.jpg

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:Madonna del Silenzio

:c. 1538

:The Portland Collection, Nottinghamshire

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Notes

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