• the Capitoline Museums are housed in a complex of palazzi surrounding a piazza in Rome, designed by Michelangelo in 1536 but not fully completed until Mussolini ordered it in 1940?

Facts on topics related to Michelangelo Buonarroti

Michelangelo

• English sculptor Henry Weekes' monument to Percy Bysshe Shelley, modelled on Michelangelo's Pietà, includes realistic touches such as seaweed wrapped around the drowned poet's arm?
• Madonna, Michelangelo, Napoleon, Pelé and Voltaire (pictured) are all mononymous persons — each is commonly known by a single name?
• The Torment of Saint Anthony (pictured) has recently been identified as the earliest known painting by Michelangelo?
• during the Siege of Florence, Michelangelo was placed in command of the city's fortification?
• the autobiography of Italian sculptor Raffaello da Montelupo contains the only known contemporary reference to Michelangelo's natural left-handedness?