Michelangelo: The Last Decades review – feels close to a religious experience

British Museum, London
This huge yet intimate show of the Renaissance polymath’s work guides you by the heart as well as the eyes, through hypnotic studies, his own words, and drawings that are prayers as much as picturesThe final section of the British Museum’s exhibition Michelangelo: The Last Decades is circular and enclosed. The walls are black and the light low. The feeling is of being in a small chapel: if a person was to speak in this space, they would surely whisper – t