Given Michelangelo’s fame, expect this show to be crowded. Looking at drawings is an intimate, close-up affair, and it’s a relief not to have the drawings hanging on walls.

And all via drawing! If Michelangelo’s 133 drawings, three marble sculptures, architectural models, and much other relevant supporting material is too much to take in, ...

Another Michelangelo drawing of a figure after Masaccio—dated 1492 to 1493, and located in Munich—illustrates the development of Michelangelo’s sophisticated crosshatching.

When the drawing first began making the rounds in exhibitions, several of the catalog entries attributing the piece to Michelangelo were written by Giorgio Bonsanti, an Italian Renaissance expert ...