Incomplete Michelangelo Is ‘Finished’ On A Phone And Shown At National Gallery

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Michelangelo’s Manchester Madonna is an intriguing but unfinished masterpiece that offers a glimpse into the artistic genius of the Renaissance master. This painting, also known as the Virgin and Child with St John and Angels, captures a tender moment between the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus, with the young St John the Baptist and a pair of angels in the background. While the faces of the central figures are delicately rendered with Michelangelo’s signature attention to detail, much of the canvas remains incomplete, with the background and some of the surrounding figures left in varying degrees of rough sketches and underpainting.

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