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

Title	Year	Location	Material	Dimensions
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	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	Cathedral, Siena	Marble
Saint Peter	1503–1504	Cathedral, Siena	Marble
Saint Pius	1503–1504	Cathedral, Siena	Marble
Saint Gregory	1503–1504	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	Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze, Florence	Marble	height 256 cm
Atlas Slave	1520–1523	Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze, Florence	Marble	height 277 cm
Awakening Slave	1520–1523	Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze, Florence	Marble	height 267 cm
Bearded Slave	1520–1523	Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze, 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	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

Title	Year	Location	Material	Dimensions
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
Rothschild Bronzes^[6]	1506–1508	Fitzwilliam Museum	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

Image	Details	Notes
	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

Image	Details	Notes
	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

Image	Building	City	Notes
	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

Image	Details	Notes
	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

^ "Michelangelo". NNDB. Retrieved 18 March 2011.
^ Underwent six different phases, in 1505, 1513, 1516, 1525–1526, 1532 and 1542
^ (also known as Evening and Morning)
^ Unfinished
^ Povoledo, Elisabetta (30 June 2013). "The New York Times". Retrieved 24 November 2015.
^ 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.
^ The attribution of this work to Michelangelo is disputed.
^ "Michelangelo Buonarroti: The Holy Family". artbible.info. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
^ 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.
^ 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
^ "Michelangelo's First Painting. – Free Online Library". www.thefreelibrary.com. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
^ "The Dream (Il Sogno)". A&A. Courtuald Institute of Art. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
^ "Pietà". Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Archived from the original on 1 August 2012. Retrieved 1 November 2012.

External links

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

[faun-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

[nytimes-5] Povoledo, Elisabetta (30 June 2013). "The New York Times". Retrieved 24 November 2015.

[theguardian-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.

[artbible-8] "Michelangelo Buonarroti: The Holy Family". artbible.info. Retrieved 24 November 2015.

[Kimbell-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.

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