List of works by Michelangelo explained

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†	^[1]	Lost in 1944	Marble Plaster cast
Madonna of the Stairs		Casa Buonarroti, Florence	Marble	55.5 × 40 cm
Battle of the Centaurs		Casa Buonarroti, Florence	Marble	84.5 × 90.5 cm
Hercules (in Italian)		Lost	Marble Copy by Peter Paul Rubens
Crucifix		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 5.17abbr=offNaNabbr=off
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)		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
		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)		Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York	Marble	height 97 cm
Venus and Cupid (in Italian)		Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence	Marble	43,5x58 cm
Gallino Crucifix (in Italian)		Bargello Museum, Florence	Wood	41,3×39,7 cm
Young Saint John the Baptist ^[5]		Sacred Chapel of El Salvador, Úbeda	Marble	height 130 cm
Crucifix of Montserrat		Santa Maria de Montserrat Abbey, Monistrol de Montserrat	Ivory
Naked man I (in Italian)		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)		Casa Buonarroti, Florence	Terracotta	height 23 cm
Male torso II (in Italian)		Casa Buonarroti, Florence	Terracotta	height 22,5 cm
Naked woman scale model (in Italian)		Casa Buonarroti, Florence	Terracotta	height 35 cm
Cristo della Minerva (first version?) (in Wikimedia)		San Vincenzo, Bassano Romano	Marble
Palestrina Pietà^[7]		Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence	Marble	height 253 cm
Scale model for a Crucifix		Wood	height 20,5 cm

Painting

Image	Details	Notes
	*The Entombment* c. 1500 – 1501 Tempera on panel 162x National Gallery, London
	*Doni Tondo* (The Holy Family) c. 1503 – 1506^[8] Oil and tempera on panel 120cm (50inches) diameter Uffizi, Florence
	*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
	Sistine Chapel ceiling 1508–1512 Fresco Sistine Chapel, Rome
	*The Last Judgment* 1536–1541 Fresco 1370× Sistine Chapel, Rome
	*Leda and the Swan* c. 1530 Egg tempera on panel Lost
	*The Conversion of Saul* c. 1542 – 1545 Fresco 625x Cappella Paolina, Vatican Palace, Rome
	*The Crucifixion of Saint Peter* c. 1546 – 1550 Fresco 625x 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× 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 105x National Gallery, London

Architecture

Building	City	Notes
Chapel of Leo X Castel Sant'Angelo 1514–1515	Rome
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* 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* Black chalk on paper 28.9 × 18.9 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston^[13]
	*Crucified Christ* 36.8 × 26.8 cm British Museum, London
	*Epifania* 232.7 × 165.6 cm British Museum, London
	*Madonna del Silenzio* c. 1538 The Portland Collection, Nottinghamshire

Notes and References

Web site: Michelangelo . 18 March 2011 . NNDB.
Underwent six different phases, in 1505, 1513, 1516, 1525–1526, 1532 and 1542
(also known as Evening and Morning)
Unfinished
News: The New York Times. 30 June 2013 . 24 November 2015 . Povoledo . Elisabetta .
News: Michelangelo's bronze panther-riders revealed after 'Renaissance whodunnit' | Art and design | The Guardian. The Guardian . 2 February 2015 . theguardian.com. 24 November 2015 . Brown . Mark .
The attribution of this work to Michelangelo is disputed.
Web site: Michelangelo Buonarroti: The Holy Family. artbible.info. 24 November 2015.
https://www.kimbellart.org/News/News-Article.aspx?nid=119 Earliest Known Painting by Michelangelo Acquired By the Kimbell Art Museum
Provenance details at https://www.kimbellart.org/Collections/Collections-Detail.aspx?P=&TypeID=&Focus=&cid=8666&prov=true&cons=false#prov
Web site: Michelangelo's First Painting. – Free Online Library . 4 April 2024 . www.thefreelibrary.com.
Web site: The Dream (Il Sogno) . A&A . Courtuald Institute of Art . 1 November 2012.
Web site: Pietà . Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum . 1 November 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120801000935/http://www.gardnermuseum.org/collection/artwork/2nd_floor/short_gallery/pieta_michelangelo . 1 August 2012 . dead .