Dive Into the Last Decades of Michelangelo at the British Museum

The British Museum is delving into the last three decades of Michelangelo’s life and career with a major new exhibition. Michelangelo: the last decades will examine how his art and faith evolved as he aged, how he redefined the iconography of religious art, and showcase works produced right up to his death at age 88 in 1564. The two-metre high ‘Epifania’, one of the largest Renaissance works on paper, will be on display for the first time since it underwent conservation work in 2018, and it is joined by his biographer Ascanio Condivi’s painting made from the drawing, bringing the two pieces together for the first time in over four centuries. A collection of drawings, including preparatory ones for the ‘Last Judgment’, not seen for nearly twenty years will also be on show alongside letters and poems written by the artist.