Toledo hosts rare Michelangelo exhibit

University Wire | October 17, 2001| | Copyright

Chasity Lester
University Wire
10-17-2001
(The BG News) (U-WIRE) BOWLING GREEN, Ohio -- Michelangelo Buonarroti was constantly aware of time.

"... to do anything quick is very good," Michelangelo once said. This is the man who painted the Sistine Chapel and sculpted David and Pieta.

When he was close to death he burned hundreds of his sketches. He wanted to conceal his efforts.

Michelangelo wanted to be perfect.

Many of his surviving works were collected by his family and housed in the Casa Buonarroti, the family home.

Twenty-one of these drawings are now on exhibition at the Toledo Museum of ...

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