List of works by Michelangelo

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

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| Head of a Faun† | c. 1489–1494[1] | Lost in 1944  | Marble
Plaster cast  |
| Madonna of the Stairs | c. 1491 | Casa Buonarroti, Florence | Marble  | 55.5 × 40 cm
| Battle of the Centaurs | c. 1492 | Casa Buonarroti, Florence | Marble  | 84.5 × 90.5 cm
| Hercules (in Italian)  | c. 1492–1493 | Lost | Marble
Copy by Peter Paul Rubens |

| Crucifix | c. 1493 | Santo Spirito, Florence | Polychrome wood  | 142 × 135 cm
| Saint Petronius from the Ark of Saint Dominic | 1494–1495  | Basilica of San Domenico, Bologna | Marble  | height 64 cm
| Saint Proculus from the Ark of Saint Dominic | 1494–1495  | Basilica of San Domenico, Bologna | Marble  | height 58.5 cm
| Angel from the Ark of Saint Dominic | 1494–1495  | Basilica of San Domenico, Bologna | Marble  | height 51.5 cm
| Sleeping Cupid | 1496  | Lost[when?] | Marble
possibly a copy by Giulio Romano |

| Bacchus | 1496–1497  | Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence | Marble  | height 203 cm
| Cupid Apollo (in Italian)  | 1497  | Lost | Marble
possibly a study for the Standing Cupid |
| Pietà | 1498–1499  | St. Peter's Basilica, Rome | Marble  | height 174 cm, width at the base 195 cm
| David | 1501–1504  | Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence | Marble  | height 5.17 meters (17.0 feet)
| Madonna and Child (Madonna of Bruges) | 1501–1504  | Church of Our Lady, Bruges | Marble  | height 128 cm
| David De Rohan (in Italian)  | 1502–1508  | Lost | Bronze  |
| Saint Paul | 1503–1504  | Siena Cathedral, Siena | Marble  |
| Saint Peter | 1503–1504  | Siena Cathedral, Siena | Marble  |
| Saint Pius | 1503–1504  | Siena Cathedral, Siena | Marble  |
| Saint Gregory | 1503–1504  | Siena Cathedral, Siena | Marble  |
| Madonna and Child (Tondo Pitti) | c. 1503 – 1504  | Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence | Marble  | 85,8 × 82 cm
| 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
| Saint Matthew | c. 1505  | Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence | Marble  | height 271 cm
| Tomb of Pope Julius II | 1505–1545[2] | San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome |  |
| Statue of Julius II (destroyed 1511)  | 1508  | Formerly Basilica of San Petronio, Bologna | Bronze  |

| Moses | c. 1513–1515  | San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome |  |
| Rebellious Slave | 1513–1516  | Louvre, Paris | Marble  | height 215 cm
| Dying Slave | 1513–1516  | Louvre, Paris | Marble  | height 229 cm
| Young Slave scale model (in Italian)  | c. 1520 | Victoria & Albert Museum, London | Wax  | height 16,5 cm
| Young Slave | 1520–1523  | Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence | Marble  | height 256 cm
| Atlas Slave | 1520–1523  | Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence | Marble  | height 277 cm
| Awakening Slave | 1520–1523  | Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence | Marble  | height 267 cm
| Bearded Slave | 1520–1523  | Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence | Marble  | height 263 cm
| Medici Madonna | 1521–1534  | Medici Chapel, Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence | Marble  | height 226 cm
| Scale model for two Fighters (in Spanish) | c. 1525 | Casa Buonarroti, Florence | Clay  | height 41 cm
| The Genius of Victory | c. 1532–1534  | Palazzo Vecchio, Florence | Marble  | height 261 cm
| Rachel | 1545  | San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome | Marble  | height 209 cm
| Leah | 1545  | San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome | Marble  | height 197 cm
| Tomb of Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours (in Italian), Night and Day | c. 1526 – 1534  | Medici Chapel, Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence |  |
| Tomb of Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (in Italian), Dusk and Dawn[3] | c. 1524 – 1534  | Medici Chapel, Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence |  |
| Apollo | c. 1530  | Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence | Marble  | height 146 cm
| Crouching Boy | c. 1530 – 1534  | State Hermitage, Saint Petersburg | Marble  | height 54 cm
| Cristo della Minerva (Christ Carrying the Cross) | 1519–1520  | church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome | Marble  | height 205 cm
| Brutus | 1538  | Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence | Marble  | height 95 cm
| Florentine Pietà | c. 1547 – 1553  | Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence | Marble  | height 253 cm
| Rondanini Pietà | 1552–1564[4] | Castello Sforzesco, Milan | Marble  | height 195 cm

## Attributed sculpture

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| Christ of Guadalupe  | 1560  | Guadalupe, Cáceres, Spain  | Ivory  | 20 cm
| Young Archer (in Italian)  | c. 1491–1492 | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York  | Marble  | height 97 cm
| Venus and Cupid (in Italian)  | c. 1491–1492 | Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence  | Marble  | 43,5x58 cm
| Gallino Crucifix (in Italian)  | c. 1495–1497 | Bargello Museum, Florence  | Wood  | 41,3×39,7 cm
| Young Saint John the Baptist [5] | c. 1495–1497 | Sacred Chapel of El Salvador, Úbeda | Marble  | height 130 cm
| Crucifix of Montserrat (in Spanish) | c. 1497–1498 | Santa Maria de Montserrat Abbey, Monistrol de Montserrat | Ivory  |
| Naked man I (in Italian)  | c. 1501–1504 | Casa Buonarroti, Florence  | Terracotta  | height 49 cm
| Importuno di Michelangelo | c. 1504  | Palazzo Vecchio, Florence  | Pietraforte  |
| Michelangelo Bronzes[6] | 1506–1508  | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England | Bronze  |
| Male torso I (in Italian)  | c. 1513 | Casa Buonarroti, Florence  | Terracotta  | height 23 cm
| Male torso II (in Italian)  | c. 1513 | Casa Buonarroti, Florence  | Terracotta  | height 22,5 cm
| Naked woman scale model (in Italian)  | c. 1513 or 1532 | Casa Buonarroti, Florence  | Terracotta  | height 35 cm
| Cristo della Minerva (first version?) (in Wikimedia)  | c. 1514–1516 | San Vincenzo, Bassano Romano | Marble  |
| Palestrina Pietà[7] | c. 1555 | Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence | Marble  | height 253 cm
| Scale model for a Crucifix | c. 1562 |  | Wood  | height 20,5 cm

## Painting

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Image  | Details  | Notes

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The Entombment
c. 1500 – 1501
Tempera on panel
162 cm × 150 cm (64 in × 59 in)
National Gallery, London

Doni Tondo
(The Holy Family)
c. 1503 – 1506[8]
Oil and tempera on panel
120 cm (47 in) diameter
Uffizi, Florence

(copy by Aristotile da Sangallo)

The Battle of Cascina
1504
Lost

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

Detail: The Creation of Adam

Sistine Chapel ceiling
1508–1512
Fresco
Sistine Chapel, Rome

The Last Judgment
1536–1541
Fresco
1,370 cm × 1,200 cm (540 in × 470 in)
Sistine Chapel, Rome

(copy by Peter Paul Rubens)

Leda and the Swan
c. 1530
Egg tempera on panel
Lost

The Conversion of Saul
c. 1542 – 1545
Fresco
625 cm × 661 cm (246 in × 260 in)
Cappella Paolina, Vatican Palace, Rome

The Crucifixion of Saint Peter
c. 1546 – 1550
Fresco
625 cm × 662 cm (246 in × 261 in)
Cappella Paolina, Vatican Palace, Rome

## Attributed paintings

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The Torment of Saint Anthony
c. 1487 – 1488[9]
Oil and tempera on panel
47 cm × 35 cm (18+1⁄2 in × 13+3⁄4 in)
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.[10][11]

Madonna and Child with Saint John and Angels
(The Manchester Madonna)
c. 1497
Tempera on panel
105 cm × 76 cm (41 in × 30 in)
National Gallery, London

## Architecture

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Image  | Building  | City  | Notes

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Chapel of Leo X
Castel Sant'Angelo
1514–1515
| Rome  |

(model in Casa Buonarroti)

Facade for the Basilica of San Lorenzo
Basilica of San Lorenzo
1516–1520
| Florence  | Unexecuted

New Sacristy (Medici Chapel)
Basilica of San Lorenzo
1520–1534
| Florence  |

Laurentian Library
Basilica of San Lorenzo
1523–1559
| Florence  |

Plans for new City fortifications
1528–1529
| Florence  |

Tribune for the Relics
Basilica of San Lorenzo
1531–1532
| Florence  |

Piazza del Campidoglio complex
Capitoline Hill
1536–1546
| Rome  |

Palazzo Farnese
1546
| Rome  |

Plans for St. Peter's Basilica (especially for the dome)
1546–1564
| Rome  |

Plans for San Giovanni dei Fiorentini
1559–1560
| Rome  |

Sforza Chapel
Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore
c. 1560
| Rome  |

Porta Pia
1561–1565
| Rome  |

Interior remodeling of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri
1563–1564
| Rome  |

## Presentation drawings and cartoons

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Image  | Details  | Notes

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The Dream of Human Life
c. 1533
Black chalk on laid paper
39.8 × 27.8 cm
Courtauld Institute of Art, London[12]

The Fall of Phaëthon
1533
31.2 × 21.5 cm
British Museum, London

Pietà for Vittoria Colonna
c. 1538–44
Black chalk on paper
28.9 × 18.9 cm
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston[13]

Crucified Christ
c. 1541
36.8 × 26.8 cm
British Museum, London

Epifania
c. 1550–3
232.7 × 165.6 cm
British Museum, London

Madonna del Silenzio
c. 1538
The Portland Collection, Nottinghamshire

## Notes

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1. ^ "Michelangelo". NNDB. Retrieved 18 March 2011.
2. ^ Underwent six different phases, in 1505, 1513, 1516, 1525–1526, 1532 and 1542
3. ^ (also known as Evening and Morning)
4. ^ Unfinished
5. ^ Povoledo, Elisabetta (30 June 2013). "The New York Times". Retrieved 24 November 2015.
6. ^ Brown, Mark (2 February 2015). "Michelangelo's bronze panther-riders revealed after 'Renaissance whodunnit' | Art and design | The Guardian". The Guardian. theguardian.com. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
7. ^ The attribution of this work to Michelangelo is disputed.
8. ^ "Michelangelo Buonarroti: The Holy Family". artbible.info. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
9. ^ Earliest Known Painting by Michelangelo Acquired By the Kimbell Art Museum Archived 4 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Kimbell Art Museum, 13 May 2009, retrieved 13 May 2009.
10. ^ Provenance details at https://www.kimbellart.org/Collections/Collections-Detail.aspx?P=&TypeID=&Focus=&cid=8666&prov=true&cons=false#prov Archived 29 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
11. ^ "Michelangelo's First Painting. – Free Online Library". www.thefreelibrary.com. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
12. ^ "The Dream (Il Sogno)". A&A. Courtuald Institute of Art. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
13. ^ "Pietà". Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Archived from the original on 1 August 2012. Retrieved 1 November 2012.

## External links

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Media related to Michelangelo Buonarroti catalogue raisonné, 2007 at Wikimedia Commons

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Michelangelo

* List of works
* ✻ attributed
* †lost

Sculptures

| Florence, c. 1488–1492|

* Head of a Faun†
* Madonna of the Stairs
* Battle of the Centaurs
* Crucifix

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Bologna, 1494–1495|

* Additions to the Arca di San Domenico
* Saint Petronius
* Saint Proculus
* Angel

Rome, 1496–1500|

* Sleeping Cupid†
* Bacchus
* Standing Cupid†
* Pietà

Florence, 1501–1505|

* David
* Madonna of Bruges
* Additions to the Piccolomini Altarpiece
* Saints Peter, Paul, Pius and Gregory
* Pitti Tondo
* Taddei Tondo
* Saint Matthew
* Rothschild Bronzes

Tomb of Julius II, 1505–1545|

* Moses
* Rebellious Slave
* Dying Slave
* Young Slave
* Bearded Slave
* Atlas Slave
* Awakening Slave
* The Genius of Victory
* Rachel
* Leah

Florence, 1516–1534|

* Christ Carrying the Cross
* Medici Chapel
* Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours
* Night
* Day
* Dusk
* Dawn
* Medici Madonna
* Apollo
* Crouching Boy

Rome, 1534–1564|

* Brutus
* Florentine Pietà
* Palestrina Pietà ✻
* Rondanini Pietà

Paintings

| Panel paintings|

* The Torment of Saint Anthony
* Manchester Madonna
* The Entombment
* Doni Tondo
* Leda and the Swan†

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Salone dei Cinquecento|

* Battle of Cascina†

Sistine Chapel
(ceiling gallery)|

* Ceiling
* Separation of Light from Darkness
* The Creation of the Sun, Moon, and Plants
* The Creation of Adam
* Prophet Daniel
* Prophet Isaiah
* Prophet Jeremiah
* Prophet Joel
* Prophet Jonah
* The Last Judgment

Pauline Chapel|

* The Crucifixion of Saint Peter
* The Conversion of Saul

Architecture

| Florence|

* New Sacristy and Laurentian Library in the Basilica of San Lorenzo

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Rome|

* Capitoline Museums
* Piazza del Campidoglio
* Palazzo Farnese
* St. Peter's Basilica
* Tor San Michele ✻
* San Giovanni dei Fiorentini
* Porta Pia
* Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri

Works on paper, milieu, etc.

| Works on paper|

* Study of a Kneeling Nude Girl for The Entombment
* Male Back with a Flag
* Studies for the Libyan Sibyl
* The Punishment of Tityus
* The Fall of Phaeton
* Pietà for Vittoria Colonna
* Epifania

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Milieu|

* Cecchino dei Bracci
* Tommaso dei Cavalieri
* Vittoria Colonna
* Ascanio Condivi
* Gherardo Perini
* Sebastiano del Piombo
* Febo di Poggio
* Luigi del Riccio

Related|

* Art patronage of Julius II
* Casa Buonarroti
* Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
* Michelangelo and the Medici
* Replicas of David
* Replicas of the Pietà
* Restoration of the Sistine Chapel frescoes
* The Titan: Story of Michelangelo (1950 documentary)
* The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961 novel, 1965 film)
* A Season of Giants (1990 TV film)
* Pietà vandalism
* Michelangelo (crater)
* Michelangelo quadrangle

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By gallery/
collection|

* Accademia Carrara, Bergamo
* Art Institute of Chicago
* El Greco Museum, Toledo
* Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem
* Frick Collection, New York
* Galleria Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples
* Hampton Court Palace, London
* Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent
* Indianapolis Museum of Art
* Louvre Museum, Paris
* Musée d'Orsay
* Museum of Modern Art, New York
* National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
* National Gallery, London
* Los Angeles County Museum of Art
* Palatine Gallery, Florence
* Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
* Web Gallery of Art, Internet: A–K, L–Z

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* Pieter Coecke van Aelst
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* Sophie Gengembre Anderson
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* Francis Bacon
* Giacomo Balla
* Banksy
* Jean-Michel Basquiat
* Frédéric Bazille
* Giovanni Bellini
* George Bellows
* Frank Weston Benson
* Gian Lorenzo Bernini
* Albert Bierstadt
* Joseph Blackburn
* Arnold Böcklin
* Giovanni Boldini
* Hieronymus Bosch
* Sandro Botticelli
* François Boucher
* Eugène Boudin
* Valentin de Boulogne
* Ford Madox Brown
* Bronzino
* Pieter Bruegel the Elder
* Edward Burne-Jones
* Guido Cagnacci
* Gustave Caillebotte
* Canaletto
* Caravaggio
* Mary Cassatt
* Paul Cézanne
* Marc Chagall
* William Merritt Chase
* Gaetano Chierici
* Frederic Edwin Church
* Thomas Cole
* John Constable
* Adriaen Coorte
* Terence Cuneo
* John Steuart Curry
* Salvador Dalí
* Edward Thomas Daniell
* Arthur Bowen Davies
* Jacques-Louis David
* Edgar Degas
* Marcel Duchamp
* Carolus-Duran
* Albrecht Dürer
* Anthony van Dyck
* Thomas Eakins
* James Ensor
* Jan van Eyck
* Jean-Honoré Fragonard
* Caspar David Friedrich
* Fujishima Takeji
* Paul Gauguin
* Orazio Gentileschi
* Artemisia Gentileschi
* Luca Giordano
* Albert Gleizes
* Hugo van der Goes
* Vincent van Gogh
* Francisco Goya
* El Greco
* Hans Gude
* Frans Hals
* Bartholomeus van der Helst
* Catharina van Hemessen
* William Hogarth
* Hans Holbein the Younger
* Pieter de Hooch
* Edward Hopper
* Edward Robert Hughes
* John Ingleby
* Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
* Johan Jongkind
* Frida Kahlo
* Wassily Kandinsky
* Angelica Kauffman
* Paul Klee
* Gustav Klimt
* Peder Severin Krøyer
* Philip de László
* Georges Lebacq
* Leonardo da Vinci
* Judith Leyster
* August Macke
* René Magritte
* Édouard Manet
* Masaccio
* Henri Matisse
* Victor Meirelles
* Jean Metzinger
* Michelangelo
* John Middleton
* Pierre Mignard
* John Everett Millais
* Claude Monet
* Water Lilies
* Alphonse Mucha
* Edvard Munch
* Elizabeth Murray
* Mikhail Nesterov
* William Orpen
* Clara Peeters
* Robert Antoine Pinchon
* Camille Pissarro
* Giambattista Pittoni
* Frans Post
* Nicolas Poussin
* Raphael
* Rembrandt
* Guido Reni
* Pierre-Auguste Renoir
* Diego Rivera
* Suze Robertson
* Dante Gabriel Rossetti
* François Rude
* Jacob van Ruisdael
* Charles Marion Russell
* Rachel Ruysch
* John Singer Sargent
* Thérèse Schwartze
* De Es Schwertberger
* Georges Seurat
* Sharaku
* Alfred Sisley
* Matthias Stom
* August Strindberg
* Titian
* J. M. W. Turner
* Suzanne Valadon
* Diego Velázquez
* Johannes Vermeer
* George Vincent
* John William Waterhouse
* Michaelina Wautier
* J. Alden Weir
* Rogier van der Weyden
* Eugenio Zampighi
* Erotic works by Thomas Rowlandson

By type|

* Gold-glass portraits
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* National Treasures of Japan
* May paintings
* Most expensive
* On Soviet postage stamps
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* Pre-Raphaelite paintings
* Stolen paintings
* Stone Age paintings

Related|

* 100 Great Paintings (1980 BBC series)
* 100 great paintings from Duccio to Picasso
* 120 Paintings from the Rijksmuseum
* Still life paintings from the Netherlands, 1550–1720

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