Michelangelo’s surprising height: shoe evidence

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(Charlton Heston as Michelangelo in the 1965 movie “The Agony and the Ecstasy”)

 

Although short by today’s standards, Michelangelo was not unusually short for his times. I always imagined this giant of artistic geniuses being a giant of a man, however.

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Italian researchers recently examined three shoes that were found in Michelangelo's home after his death and are thought to have belonged to the Renaissance artist: a pair of leather shoes and a single leather slipper (the companion was stolen in 1873), in the collection of the Casa Buonarroti Museum in Florence, Italy.

The researchers' analysis is the first to estimate physical characteristics of the artist based on measurements of personal objects such as footwear, and they found that Michelangelo, while still an artistic giant, stood no more than 5 feet 2 inches (1.6 meters) tall.

 

 

 

 

https://www.livescience.com/michelangelo-very-short-shoes-reveal.html

 

Nice video about the Sistine Chapel, one of Michelangelo’s greatest creations:

 

 

Edited February 2 by guy