Many of the unfinished parts of The Entombment, such as the cloak of the missing Virgin, would have required quantities of the expensive lapis lazuli blue. If this paint was in short supply, it could explain why the painting was abandoned.

Twelve reproductions of the Dying Slave adorn the top story of the 12th arrondissement police station in Paris. Although Art Deco in style, the building was designed in 1991 by architects Manolo Nunez-Yanowski and Miriam Teitelbaum.

In his poem "L'Idéal" from Les Fleurs du Mal, French Romantic poet Charles Baudelaire writes: "Or you, great Night, daughter of Michelangelo/Who calmly contort, reclining in a strange pose/Your charms molded by the mouths of Titans!"

The Doni Tondo features the Christian Holy family (the child Jesus, Mary, and Saint Joseph) along with John the Baptist in the foreground and contains five ambiguous nude male figures in the background.

The Madonna of the Stairs is a relief sculpture in the Casa Buonarroti, Florence. It was sculpted around 1491, when Michelangelo was about seventeen.

The depiction of a horned Moses stems from the description of Moses' face as "cornuta" ("horned") in the Latin Vulgate translation of the passage from Exodus in which Moses returns to the people after receiving the commandments for the second time.

Between 1493 and 1494, Michelangelo bought a block of marble, and carved a larger than life statue of Hercules, which was sent to France and subsequently disappeared sometime in the 18th century.

The composition stretches over 500 square metres of ceiling.

Michelangelo sculpted three small statues for the tomb of San Domenico: St. Petronius, St. Proculus, and an Angel.

Michelangelo's mother, Francesca di Neri del Miniato di Siena, died in 1481 when he was only six years old.