Michelangelo Milan

Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Medicis, Roman ruins, gelato, and the beach. We got robbed, conned, assaulted, sick, missed our trains, climbed more stairs than I thought humanly possible, lived on cappuccino, and learned the definition of chiaroscuro. It was ...

... -known of these museums is probably Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco which has an art collection that includes the Michelangelo's last work - Rondanini Pietà...Michelangelo worked on this sculpture until his death in 1564...   ...

... be awesome and it is going to be crowded as hell in there. It was awesome and it was crowded as hell. Michelangelo's ceiling frescoe in the Sistine Chapel is terrific especially with the vivid colors after restoration, but the whole place was pretty ...

... because the Sistine Chapel is at the very end.  We finally got there and WOW!  It was so beautiful!  That Michelangelo.....man.....just amazing.  I don't know what else to say.  We just stood there and stared at it until our necks ...

... was the Sforza Castle, still mostly intact.  We just walked through and looked around since the main highlight, an unfinished Pieta by Michelangelo, severely limits the amount of people that can view it and we were on a strict schedule.  My main ...

... our lunch eh?). Our last stop was a visit to the Palace Museums full of relics, and artifacts from the ruling families of Milan over the centuries...a place we could quite happily have spent a day or two looking through, and once again we found ...

... site in the middle of Milan's golden quad of boutiques.  The highlight of the visit was seeing an unfinished Michelangelo Pietà.  More gelato. More travelpod posting. Well, we've got to catch the train to Bologna.  More posting ...

... . Castle Sforzesca The castle's pretty enormous, and now it's being used to hold 12 museums. I checked out the Michelangelo sculptures (nothing like the ones in Florence), ancient artefacts, and the Egyptian section. A few people were building ...

... stained glass windows, through the Galleria, which is full of shops and restaurants, and to the castle where we saw drawings done by Michelangelo. The group part of the day was over and we were free to explore the city by ourselves the rest of the day. ...

... everything about it. The most significant aspect is the fact that in the original sketch Raffael leaves out the depiction of Michelangelo as he sits drawing and brooding on the front steps. According to legend, as he was painting his masterpiece just ...

... glass mall), where I had some lunch, La Scala (just from outside), and the Castello Sforseco, where I saw yet another Michelangelo Pieta, the so called Rondanini Pieta. I then headed to the Cadorna Train Station (as opposed to the Milan Centrale Main ...

... purple case has blown a tyre, so the pressure was on to make it to Milan to find a new bag!. Then when we made it to Milan we joined the crowds of shoppers. The shops were absolutely packed right up to 7pm on a Sunday night. The men seemed to be giving ...

... (slush puppy) tasted so good. We then did the mandatory Red Bus tour. The Duomo was spectacular. It seemed much of old Milan: the city wall, the canals and churches have been removed to make space for roads and dwellings. The city itself was very clean ...

... , the obvious that one of the giants of the Italian Renaissance drew it, but also, because in the original drawing, Michelangelo was left out. Supposedly the story is that Raphael drew the cartoon in preparation for the painting in the private apartments ...

... WW11) and up to Piazzale Michelangelo, where my Contiki Group photo was taken in 1993 (another nostalgic moment). I took Maz to see Michelangelo’s statue of David, a fine specimen of a man!! (David not Michelangelo). We even got a sneaky shot of him ...

... you to Castello Sforzesco, which was once the city fortress. Now it holds a museum of furniture, scultptures and the odd Michelangelo. Snow still lies within the grounds of the Castello and surrounding parks. After a wander of the streets, I was back ...

... have eaten it up. In the last museum, there is an unfinished sculpture of Mary and Jesus at his crucifixion.  It was Michelangelo's last work, the one he died before he could complete.  His name is cut into the stone at the bottom of the ...

... passed and I was able to get out of the hotel, I visited the museo Brera, Castello Sfozesco (where the last statue by Michelangelo stands), San Pietro’s church and was lucky enough to get tickets to visit “The Last Supper” by Leonardo da ...

... shape of a star, it's moat around the structure creates the star shape. Inside there is a museum whose art collection includes Michelangelo's last sculpture before he died, the Rondanini Pietà, but I didn't go inside the museum. Our next stop was ...