Martin Gayford

Why the Royal Academy is wrong to consider selling their precious Michelangelo

The ‘Taddei Tondo’ forms a unique aesthetic chain from Leonardo to Michelangelo to Raphael

Losing their marbles: the ‘Taddei Tondo’, c.1503, by Michelangelo. Credit: Luisa Ricciarini / Bridgeman Images 
issue 10 October 2020
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