Beginning September 26, 2009, Michelangelo’s first known painting, The Torment of Saint Anthony, will be on view among the permanent collection of the Kimbell Art Museum. The Kimbell Art Museum acquired the painting in May 2009. The work was on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York through September 7. It will be featured in a focus exhibition including a facsimile of the Schongauer engraving on which it is based and the recent technical examinations and scholarly analyses that identify it as the painting described by Michelangelo’s biographers. Eric M. Lee, director of the Kimbell Art Museum, commented, “ I can hardly wait . . ."
Waiting for St. Anthony
