Viewing A fascinating insight into the dynamic end of Michelangelo’s illustrious career

By the time High Renaissance Italian sculptor and painter Michelangelo arrived in Rome, in 1534, he was already 59 – he would remain in the city until his death, aged 88, in 1564. Those final three decades of his work are the focus of this electrifying new exhibition at the British Museum, a period when he produced prolifically, and that arguably might have been his most artistically successful too – it was during this time he painted his world-famous fresco, The Last Judgement, commissioned by Pope Clement VII. This exhibition also suggests that artists may only get better with age and experience – and that a true artist never stops working.