May 25, 2021
3 min read
Michelangelo's First Painting
The Torment of Saint Anthony
The soul tries out a thousand cures, in vain;
Since I was taken from my early road,
Vainly it worries how it can return.— Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1522 (translated by Creighton Gilbert)
Michelangelo is universally acknowledged as the towering genius of the Renaissance. He might be known to us as a superlative…
