Michelangelo: A Beginner’s Guide to His Genius

Michelangelo: A Beginner’s Guide to His Genius

Tuesday Programs | Available

3025 Bull Street Savannah, GA 31405 United States
Colonial
10/27/2026-11/5/2026
3:00 PM-4:00 PM on Tue Th
$80.00
Member Discount Available

Michelangelo: A Beginner’s Guide to His Genius

Tuesday Programs | Available

Four lectures by Gary Radke
Tuesdays and Thursdays
Discount for members of TLC or Telfair Museums.
Telfair members use code Telfair25 to receive discount.  TLC members will receive the member discount automatically. 

Challenging Antiquity
October 27
Michelangelo learned the lessons of antiquity and surpassed them, creating the Pieta and the David while still a young man.

Envisioning Sacred History
October 29
Michelangelo, primarily a sculptor, painted biblical scenes, heroic figures, and fictive architecture on the Sistine ceiling.

Commemorating the High and Mighty
November 3
A proponent of the Florentine republic, Michelangelo nevertheless eagerly accepted private commissions for funerary monuments from the Medicis and Pope Julius II.

Contemplating Death and Resurrection
November 5
An old man obsessed with his own eternal destiny, Michelangelo painted The Last Judgement and carved the Pieta's for his own tomb.

  • This series is not open to individual session attendance.

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