Michelangelo’s First Painting at the Met

Most scholars now agree that this creepy, technicolor work was painted by Michelangelo when he was 12 or 13. Recently acquired by a museum in Texas, The Torment of St Anthony was restored by --- and is now on display at --- the Met. It, as well as the attendant materials focusing on the intense restoration process, are worth a visit. So are the crazy monsters, winged and beaked and fish-lipped, angry and ugly and aerodynamic, all hanging off the guy, who, frankly, doesn't look all that bothered by his situation.

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