A wooden crucifix sculpted by Michelangelo at 18 has been restored to pride of place in Florence’s Santo Spirito, the church the Renaissance master had created it for. After the death of his first benefactor Lorenzo de Medici in 1492, Michelangelo lived for a year with a community of Augustine monks associated with the famous basilica, studying anatomy in the hospital they ran.
A wooden crucifix sculpted by Michelangelo at 18 has been restored to pride of place in Florence’s Santo Spirito, the church the Renaissance master had created it for. After the death of his first benefactor Lorenzo de Medici in 1492, Michelangelo lived for a year with a community of Augustine monks associated with the famous basilica, studying anatomy in the hospital they ran.
