Smithsonian Magazine

Experts Say This Small Drawing of a Foot May Be a Long-Lost Study for Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Ceiling

Experts have identified a small study of a pointed foot made in red chalk as an original drawing by Michelangelo. The Italian Renaissance master sketched the appendage around 1511 or 1512 while ...
National Catholic ReporterOpinion

Michelangelo hated painting the Sistine Chapel — and never aspired to be a painter to begin with

Beyond his enthusiastic embrace of sculpture and resentment over the Sistine Chapel project, the artist found painting in ...
Hyperallergic

Michelangelo Drawing of a Foot Could Fetch $2M at Auction

A Michelangelo study for the Sistine Ceiling will go up for auction next year. (all images courtesy Christie's Images Ltd. 2025) Christie’s is putting its right foot forward. A 500-year-old ...
Yahoo

Michelangelo hated painting the Sistine Chapel – and never aspired to be a painter to begin with

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From a young age, Michelangelo prized drawing and sculpture above painting. Ian Nicholson/PA via Getty Images When a ...
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Michelangelo hated painting the Sistine Chapel – and never aspired to be a painter to begin with

(COLUMBIA, SC) When a 5-inch-by-4-inch red chalk drawing of a woman’s foot by Michelangelo sold at auction for US$27.2 million on Feb. 5, 2026, it blew past the $1.5 million to $2 million it was ...