Episode No. 743 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features author and art historian William E. Wallace.
Wallace is the author of Michelangelo & Titian, which will be published by Princeton University Press on February 3. The book examines what Michelangelo and Titian saw in each other’s work, how they spoke to each other in paintings and sculptures, and details their two meetings. Wallace’s narrative animates the many relationships with church officials, collectors, and intellectuals that the two men had in common, providing insight into their world and the many ways in which the two artists may have addressed each other in their art. Amazon and Bookshop offer it for $19-33.
Wallace was previously on Episode No. 439 to discuss Michelangelo, God’s Architect.
Air date: January 29, 2026.
Michelangelo, The Last Judgment (Sistine Chapel), 1536-41.
Giovanni Bellini and Titian, Feast of the Gods, 1514/29.
Titian, Bacchanal of the Andrians, 1523-26.
Titian, The Worship of Venus, 1518-19.
Titian, Bacchus and Ariadne, 1520-23.
Titian, Danaë, 1542-43.
after Titian, Alfonso d’Este, late 16th or early 17th century.
Michelangelo, Bacchus, 1496-97.
Rosso Fiorentino after Michelangelo, Leda, 1529-30.
Cornelis Bos after Michelangelo, Leda, 1544-66.
Michelangelo, Night from the Tomb of Lorenzo de’ Medici, 1526-31.
Henri Matisse, Blue Nude (Memory of Biskra), 1907.
Johann Carl Loth after Titian, The Assassination of St. Peter Martyr, 1691.
Michelangelo, The Resurrection of Christ, nd.
Michelangelo, The Resurrection, ca. 1532.
Titian, Adam and Eve, ca. 1550.
Michelangelo, The Fall of Man (Sistine Chapel), 1509-10.
Michelangelo, Moses from the Tomb of Pope Julius II, 1505.
Titian, Doge Andrea Gritti, ca. 1546-50.
Michelangelo, Pieta, 1498-99.
Titian, Pieta, 1575-76.
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