beautiful presentation !!

Love the new graphic titles! Lovely a refreshing for the new series!

This was just fantastic. Thank you for a wonderful, riveting presentation. Loved so much, wish I could be teleported to London from Down Under.

#GiveBackOurStuff!

How disrespectful of you to voice a baseless opinion that he had a male lover. As you yourself said, he was deeply religious and there is no evidence of anything more than a platonic relationship. Why mention it then? Would you disrespect a person's memory who was of a more minor religion? I think not.

Just brilliant. So good to get up close to a drawing. Thank you! I’ve been lucky enough to see the Sistine Chapel, but alongside hundreds of other tourists.

Thank you Sara, for the perfect video about hysteri.

You have no idea how happy I am while watching this video, since I was a child I've loved Egypt with all my heart. How I wish I could take classes with Ilona ❤

If I ever choose to live in London, this museum is one of the major reasons

You missed the really golden age of Ming Blue and White,that of the Hsuan Te/Xuande period, 1426-35 which had the palace porcelain known as “Kuan Yao”, especially the Stem Cups.

When I was as in Italy, three different experienced tour guides, all from Florence or Rome, two with degrees in art history, all said Michelangelo was gay, as was DaVinci. Just accepted. As it should be. Both were geniuses.

Thanks for this sensitive account of Michelangelo’s works in his last days. What an incredible life!

Love this series

You have to wonder if he ever read the bible. The apostle Paul to the hebrew congregation wrote at 6:20 that Melchizedek king of Salem was a forerunner of Jesus. Then, at 7:3, he wrote like Melchizedek Jesus had no genealogy, being without genealogy, no father or mother. This is self-evident in that Jesus never called Mary mother. He only refers to her as woman. In fact, in that drawing with John and Mary and Jesus on the stake, Jesus turned to his mother and said, "Woman, see! Your son. But then turned to the unidentified disciple and said, See! Your mother. Jewish law says it has to be a relative, so it had to be the resurrected John the Baptist. Then another time was at the wedding he took mary to at john 2:4 he said, Woman, why is that of concern to me and you? Just because the narrators refer to mary as Jesus mother doesn't mean she is. Then Mary and Jesus' brothers and sisters did not except him for who he was. Matthew 12:46-50; 13:53-58. Exodus 20:12 said honor your father and mother. Calling your mother woman is not honor. Paul explains at galatians 4:26 but the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother. This is who the woman is at Genesis 3:15. Jerusalem above. Jehovahs heavenly organization where Jesus came from. Peace and Ahev

PLEASE STOP OWNING OTHER CULTURES GIVE IT BACK

Thank you for the video. Really beautiful art.

Thought I'd try a couple of minutes, was rapt right through. Glad I'm subscribed, or would have missed.

this is mind blowing, thank you. I cant wait to see the exhibition.

Back to basics, thank you.

What a cool premise for an exhibition.

Sarah is a fabulous presenter! Poetic, beautiful interpretations. I could watch a whole series of her presenting artwork. I also appreciate that there is no music while she speaks. Some channels overlay emotional music over the information and it is very distracting. Thank you

This is bloody brilliant. Thank you Sarah.

Thank you so, so much for the curator's talk on 28th April, it was amazing. It was a pleasure to hear some things over again in this video

you mean his young lover - "friend"

Michaelangelo may well have been a Jehovah's Witness. However there is no proof of this as the movement didn't even exist at this time. Just thought I'd throw my pointless personal opinion in for good measure. If the lady in the video can do it why can't I?

The ham-fisted (and self-admittedly unfounded) gay agenda hampered an otherwise splendid lecture. Be a professional, please. Leave your personal politics at home.

Thank you, that was wonderful. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Wish I was in London.

"I think it's reasonable to suspect there was some romantic interest on Michelangelo's part" Based on what evidence? The fact he cared about him? "We have no evidence..." then why say it? You're a professional educator putting out videos to the public in the name of the British Museum. Who told you to start adding your own personal conspiracy theories to this content?

Nice work, but... It's amazing to think that a 50-year-old man and a 20-year-old man never had a physical relationship because one of them was Catholic.

"Michealangelo was gay... but we have no reason to assume it" It's all so tiresome. Italy should sue these buffoons for slander.

A superb‘tutorial’ and thank you so much. Would really appreciate a short booklist (current) on MA.

Thank you for this time capsule 💜

Starting to bother him at nearly 90? Lucky man! At 66 i took a drawing course. If i worked on a drawing for 3 hours it would take 2 to 3 weeks for my hand to recover. Not to mention how it feels like fingers have the dexterity of sausages now.😮

Wonderful video, thank you!

"It's reasonable to suspect there was some romantic interest..." then you say all the evidence says otherwise. So why would it be reasonable to suspect a romantic interest? You immediately contradict yourself

"ditelo a urbino" means "tell it to urbino". You'll probably know better than me who this Urbino is. The rest of the note reads "as I promised, and if you like it, please send it back and let me finish it." Oh, and it's "schizzo", not "scizzo". I know, italian has a funny way with the letter c...

Michelangelo The Genius Who Got Better With Age | With Sarah Vowles | Curator's Corner S9 Ep1 1.5.24 helios creed. akin to my fav failure icarus.

Michelangelo was a dirty hippie that never bathed.

The British are so repressed that they see sex in every relationship.

Careful, some loon in Government might try to repatriate these things to Italy.

Michelangelo was also a brilliant engineer, He left behind many concepts, designs and inventions - some of which, such as an early proposal for a helicopter, were centuries ahead of his time. The scope of his genius is hard to grasp.

Really interesting video, it's always interesting when you see a figure like Michelangelo shown in a more "human" way, you always hear people talk about such masters of their fields in an almost reverential tone but they were as human as us and had our same problems, it's beautiful seeing it reflected in their work

Can You PLEASE make a Video on the Indian Artifacts at the British Museum

i think there is something to an artist that uses his own paint mixes...

Excellent way to wrap up the series: definitely needs to be repeated!

What good is an eternal afterlife without beer

Good old Leicester, eh? ❤🎉

If the rosette spot is safe, then why are there also four identical rosettes drawn onto the 'safe' lanes? Was that perhaps for more advanced gameplay?

The cover photo shows a hair-pinned courtesan and the misnomer "UTOMARA". I guess Kipling was right: East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.

Very nice 👍