Peter Murray says the Renaissance artist’s sensual, uninhibited depictions of male and female beauty made his reputation and reflected his sexual zeal

A FAMILY in New York may have had an unfinished €300 million (€216m) Michelangelo painting hanging on their living room wall for a year.

MICHELANGELO di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni is one of only a handful of artists whose achievements one might well describe as immortal.