22-05-2017 23:00 via theartnewspaper.com

Will the Royal Academy give Michelangelo's masterpiece the setting it deserves?

The Royal Academys Michelangelo sculpture, one of the UKs greatest art treasures, is to remain on loan to the National Gallery until the end of the year. The Taddei Tondo, named after the Florentine owner who commissioned it, had been expected to return to the Royal Academy after the National Gallerys current Michelangelo & Sebastiano exhibition closes on 25 June, but the tondo is now scheduled to return home after the completion of the current building work at the academy. (This is on
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