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| Daniele da Volterra Portrait of Michelangelo ca. 1544 Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Michelangelo Annunciation ca. 1550 Morgan Library, New York |
I had never seen Michelangelo's drawing of the Annunciation (above) at all, not anywhere, until I discovered it in the Morgan Library's online archive. The archangel announcing the birth of the Savior to the Virgin is one of the two or three most traditional subjects in Italian art, but independently imagined here. Michelangelo typically created new paradigms and resisted received templates. What follows is a collection of intriguing early copies or renderings made by other artists of original works by Michelangelo (1475-1564).
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| Tintoretto Drawing of Michelangelo's Day ca. 1550-55 Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| John Singer Sargent Drawing of Michelangelo's Night ca. 1872-74 Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Robert Macpherson Photograph of Michelangelo's Moses 1850s Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Giovanni Battista Naldini Drawing of Michelangelo's Samson ca. 1560-80 Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Nicolas Beatrizet Engraving of Michelangelo's Ganymede 1542 Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Benjamin West Studies after Michelangelo 1790s Morgan Library, New York |
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| Jean-Honoré Fragonard Studies after Michelangelo 18th century Rijksmuseum |
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| Anonymous Roman artist Drawing of detail from Michelangelo's Night 16th century Morgan Library, New York |
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| Circle of Michelangelo Anatomical Study 16th century Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Adolphe Braun Engraving of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes ca. 1869 Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Cherubino Alberti Engraving of Ignudo from Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling 1580s Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Cherubino Alberti Engraving of Saved Soul from Michelangelo's Last Judgment 1591 Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| David Wilkie Drawing of Michelangelo's Libyan Sybil ca. 1830 Morgan Library, New York |
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| Ascanio Condivi de la Ripa Vita di Michelagnolo Buonarroti (title page) Rome, 1553 Metropolitan Museum of Art |