Design for the Tomb of Pope Julius II della Rovere
1505–6
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over stylus ruling and leadpoint
Dimensions
20 1/16 × 12 9/16 in. (51 × 31.9 cm) Framed: 25 3/4 × 17 3/4 in. (65.4 × 45.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1962
Accession Number
62.93.1
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About the Artist
Michelangelo Buonarroti · 1475–1564
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475–1564) stands as the quintessential figure of the Italian High Renaissance, a sculptor, painter, architect, and poet whose mastery across disciplines embodied the era's humanist ideals. Born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese within the Republic of Florence to a modest family—his father, Lodovico di Buonarroti Simoni, served as a minor magistrate—Michelang...