Michelangelo hated painting the Sistine Chapel – and never aspired to be a painter to begin with

A red chalk sketch for the Sistine ceiling fetched an eye-popping sum at auction, reflecting the artist’s lifelong belief ...
India West

Rediscovered Drawing by Michelangelo to be Auctioned

NEW YORK, NY – Christie’s has announced the sale of a previously unseen drawing by Michelangelo, ‘A Naked Young Man’ (after Masaccio) surrounded by two figures, completed early in his career. This ...
Artnet

A Newly Reattributed Michelangelo Drawing Could Fetch $30 Million at Christie’s Paris Next Month

A previously unknown drawing by Michelangelo is going up for sale at Christie’s Paris next month and could fetch a startling €30 million ($32.8 million). The rare work depicting a nude man standing ...
Washington Examiner

WATCH: Rare Michelangelo drawing fetches over $24 million at auction

Michelangelo, whose works include the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and the Pieta, reportedly drew the work of art as a study for The Baptism of the Neophytes, a fresco that sits in the Brancacci ...

Michelangelo’s 5-inch drawing of a foot sells for $27.2M at auction, setting new record

This drawing reportedly sets the record for the most spent at auction for a piece of Michelangelo artwork ...
Yahoo

Extremely rare Michelangelo drawing to be displayed for free in NYC

NEW YORK (PIX11) — New Yorkers can see a piece of artistic and cultural history on display in Manhattan, but only for a limited time. Beginning Thursday, an extremely rare drawing by Michelangelo will ...
Fox Business

Rare Michelangelo drawing sold for more than $24M at auction

A rare ink drawing by Michelangelo sold at auction for $24.17 million (23.16 million euros) on Wednesday. The drawing, known as "A nude man (after Masaccio) and two figures behind," was recently ...
Local 12 WKRC Cincinnati

Rare drawing by famous Italian artist expected to be sold for nearly $40 million

PARIS, France (CBS Newspath/Reuters/WKRC) - A previously unknown drawing by Michelangelo will be offered for sale by Christie's that they expect to fetch 30 million pounds ($39.48 million), the ...

The $23 million foot: Lost Michelangelo sketch sets auction record

A previously unknown Michelangelo foot sketch, identified as a study for the Libyan Sibyl on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, sold for $23 million at Christie's. The drawing, inherited and passed down ...
Artnet

Tiny Michelangelo Sketch of a Marble Block Sells for 33 Times Its Estimate

A drawing by the famed Renaissance master Michelangelo has sold for $201,600 at Christie’s. The auction house expected the drawing, which went under the hammer on April 17, to sell for between $6,000 ...
Forbes

Michelangelo’s Long-Lost First Known Nude Drawing Sells For Record-Breaking $24.4 Million

An early drawing attributed to Michelangelo that was rediscovered in 2019 after going under the radar for centuries sold for $24.4 million in Paris Tuesday, breaking the previous record for any work ...