Jan 28, 2021
5 min read
Why Do Artists Destroy Their Art?
A lesson on the impermanence of great art
In February 1564, an eighty-eight-year-old Michelangelo Buonarroti hobbled outside his small, two-story studio on the outskirts of Rome. His house was hardly special. His studio’s beige travertine and tufa rock facade blended into every other house like a discarded pebble.
