The Genius of Michelangelo

Lecture 1. Who was Michelangelo?

Lecture 2. Aritist and aristocrat

Michelangelo's world

Lecture 3. An unconventional beginning

Lecture 4. Michelangelo's youth and early training

Lecture 5. Florence and Bologna in the early 1490s

Lecture 6. First visit to Rome and early patrons

Lecture 7. The Bacchus and the Pietà

Lecture 8. The return to Florence and the David

Lecture 9. The David and St. Matthew

Lecture 10. For the republic

The Battle of Cascina

Lecture 11. The Taddei Tondo and the Pitti Tondo

Lecture 12. The Doni Tondo

Lecture 13. Rome and the tomb of Julius II

Lecture 14. Bologna and the return to Rome

Lecture 15. The Sistine Chapel

Lecture 16. The Sistine Chapel, part 2

Lecture 17. The Sistine Chapel, part 3

Lecture 18. A story of marble

Lecture 19. The Medici Chapel sculpture

Lecture 20. The Medici Chapel sculpture, part 2

Lecture 21. The Medici Chapel sculpture, part 3

Lecture 22. The Laurentian Library

Lecture 23. Florence

a republic under siege, 1527-34

Lecture 24. Inventing a new aesthetic

the Non-finito

Lecture 25. Michelangelo's drawings, 1520-40

Lecture 26. The Last Judgment

Lecture 27. The Last Judgment, part 2

Lecture 28. The Pauline Chapel

Lecture 29. The completion of the Julius tomb; poetry

Lecture 30. The Capitloine Hill projects ; the Brutus

Lecture 31. The New St. Peter's Basilica

Lecture 32. Michelangelo's Roman architecture

Lecture 33. Michelangelo's Roman architecture, part 2

Lecture 34. Piety and pity

the Florentine Pietà

Lecture 35. The Rondanini Pietà and the late poetry

Lecture 36. Death of Michelangelo

the master's legacy.