By Giorgio Vasari’s account of the artist’s life in his famed tome, the Lives of the Artists, it was at San Spirito that Michelangelo began to dissect dead bodies “in order to study the ...

Vasari christened his former master and hero “the divine Michelangelo”, and so he has remained.

The small but provocative survey offers a stimulating view on which of the Old Masters launched the High Renaissance ...