Michelangelos 14751564 Taddei Tondo in the collection of the Royal Academy in London offers a fascinating insight into the masters technical and experimental skill. Joshua Reynolds the Academys first president considered that Michelangelo represented everything that an artist should aspire to combining technical brilliance with sublime poetical imagination and the Tondo shows this in scintillating relief. Expertly researched and written by the renowned Renaissance art historian Alison Cole this