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Michelangelo hated painting the Sistine Chapel – and never aspired to be a painter to begin with

By Anna Swartwood House, Associate Professor of Art History, University of South Carolina

A red chalk sketch for the Sistine ceiling fetched an eye-popping sum at auction, reflecting the artist’s lifelong belief that drawing and design – not painting – were the wellspring of all great art.

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