MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
(b. 1475, Caprese, d. 1564, Roma)

Various Studies (verso)

1533-34
Black chalk, 398 x 282 mm
Casa Buonarroti, Florence

The verso of the sheet contains sketches which reveal the same style of drawing as the Pietà studies on the recto and were thus probably created at the same time. These black chalk studies are related to the Last Judgment fresco in the Sistine Chapel.