Michelangelo's Death
Michelangelo died in Rome on February 18th, 1564, in his 89th year after distressing from a slow fever. As Michelangelo became more and more frail, he worked less on sculpture and more on architectural designs and religious drawings. His creative in the last years of his life consists of a number of these drawings, many of the Crucifixion, and two final pietas. Michelangelo worked on these forcefully personal pieces tenaciously, although he left most of them unfinished. Their rough and unfinished states may be partly intentional, and they are certainly more emotionally expressive because of their roughness. Although Pope Pius IV ordered that to buried Michelangelo's corpse in Rome in St. But his nephew buried him in Santa Croce, at Florence.