The choice reflects the strengths of the Casa Buonarroti, which holds the world's largest collection of Michelangelo's architectural drawings.
He's funded the restoration of Michelangelo's frescoes in the Pauline Chapel of the Vatican.
Far less modest are the adjacent Vatican Museums, an exhausting feast of art, and home to the world's most famous frescoes in the legendary Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo's astounding ceiling and wall frescoes that take the cake - picture terrified sinners and ravishing prophets bursting out in 3-D brilliance.
But for those who have lived through the Enron era, it will be hard to erase images of L. Dennis Kozlowki 's lavish party in Sardinia, complete with an ice replica of Michelangelo's David dispensing liquor from his .
Sipping champagne and nibbling caviar, 125 art-world glitterati gaze at Michelangelo's famed Sistine Chapel frescoes.
Only a few feet away is Michelangelo's small wax model for one of his slaves.
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The hill is topped by Michelangelo's Piazza del Campidoglio, an artistic pinnacle as well as a geographical one.
The exhibition balances a contextual presentation of one or two projects with a sense of the range of Michelangelo's architectural work.
The domed living room ceiling is covered with replicas of Michelangelo's frescoes from the Sistine Chapel, all handpicked by his wife, Villoo.
Michelangelo's marble statue of David will turn 500 years old next year.
The exhibit showcases the technical range of Michelangelo's work, and how the labels of "finished" and "unfinished" are misplaced with regard to his drawings.
Unfortunately, the physical division of architectural and figurative studies in the exhibition space obscures the way in which these pursuits were in constant dialogue throughout Michelangelo's career.
Highlights include the Sistine Chapel, featuring Michelangelo's famed ceiling fresco series and "Last Judgment, " works by Raphael, da Vinci, Caravaggio, and ancient wonders from Rome and Egypt.
Amid its 300 acres, the park has three churches, replicas of all of Michelangelo's works and a copy of Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" in stained glass.
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In one mailing, replacing an image of Michelangelo's God's hand with one depicting the ruins of Petra produced a 21.8% lift in sales from its Great Courses catalog.
The inclusion of several studies pertaining to Michelangelo's work at the church of San Lorenzo in Florence makes it possible to chart, in outline, his education as an architect.
With the muscular form of Michelangelo's David setting hearts a-flutter outside the Galleria dell'Accademia, and comely Renaissance maidens in every gallery, it's the artistic heart of Florence that plucks at the heart strings.
Examples such as the Madonna and Child provide insight into how Michelangelo's drawings became so famous in his own day that such literary figures as Pietro Aretino repeatedly beseeched him to send any piece of paper from his hand.
Not the kind of puzzle you buy at the museum that has a little print of Monet's haystacks on it, mind you, but one of those 5, 000-piece monsters that forces you to recreate every inch of Michelangelo's Creation of Adam.
"We promise and swear to observe with the greatest fidelity and with all persons, clerical or lay, secrecy regarding everything that in any way relates to the election of the Roman pontiff, " the cardinals said under the looming fresco of Michelangelo's Last Judgment.
Tables and seating have been set under Michelangelo's frescoed ceiling for the cardinals - and special technology has been installed to jam any mobile phones or other devices which could breach the strict secrecy of the process, the BBC's James Robbins reports from Rome.
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Voices travel up from the ground floor in a smokestack effect and ricochet around the preserved glazed-white brick walls. (The "new" library prefers buzz over the code of silence of the old library.) How different from the older sections of the library where, for instance, one reading room has restored its carved plaster ceiling reproducing Michelangelo's Laurentian Library in Florence.
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Di Venanzo, in films like Francesco Rosi's "Salvatore Giuliano" and Michelangelo Antonioni's "La notte, " was revolutionizing the practice of cinematography, opting for natural light and shadows that the traditional studio film had found anathema.
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From there we can see dozens of rectangular slabs set into the pavement, marking the burial places of centuries of Florentine families, and along the walls, funerary monuments to some of the greatest names in Italian history, including Dante, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Galileo and Rossini, which make Santa Croce the Italian equivalent of Paris's Pantheon or London's Westminster Abbey, a shrine to the so-called lay saints of a modern nation-state.
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The festival also will collaborate with MoMA PS1 for a 13-day installation at the museum's VW Dome, featuring "Alberi, " an immersion into the Italian countryside from director Michelangelo Frammartino.
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