Six Figures in Attitudes of Fear and Terror (recto) (detail), about 1517–18 to about 1535, Michelangelo Buonarroti, red chalk. © Teylers Museum, Haarlem
Michelangelo: Creation and Destruction
GETTY CENTER
Harold M. Williams Auditorium
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Michelangelo destroyed many of his preparatory drawings for the Sistine Chapel ceiling, one of his most famous works. Julian Brooks, senior curator of drawings, studies the sketches that remain, and considers what might have been lost.
This talk complements the exhibition
Michelangelo: Mind of a Master.