Must-See Michelangelo Exhibit

The AGO’s new Michelangelo: Quest for Genius exhibit displays 29 private drawings on loan from the Casa Buonarroti in Florence.

While we’re familiar with (and, in some cases, seen) Michelangelo’s most famous works of art—the statue of David and the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling fresco, for two—this show is more intimate, with rarely seen prelim and finished architectural and figural drawings that really show the master’s ideas, thoughts and emotions sketched out on paper—think notebook doodles, Renaissance style.

If you can’t get to the Vatican or Florence any time soon, a trip to the AGO before January 11th, 2015, is simply a must. —Julia Parfenyuk

Image, "Daniele Da Volterra, Portrait of Michelangelo, 1550–1555. Teylers Museum, Haarlem, the Netherlands," courtesy of the AGO