Michelangelo’s famous frescoes at the Sistine Chapel were originally met with scorn, concern, and controversy.

If you ever wanted to own a Michelangelo, now is your chance. On April 17, Christie’s is auctioning off one of the Italian master’s drawings tagged with the estimate of $6,000 to 8,000—a steal ...

Hanging on the palatial red walls on the second floor of the Muscarelle Museum of Art are some of Michelangelo’s most rare and precious drawings. Sketches upon sketches glimmer under the subdued light ...

If Michelangelo had been granted his dying wish, none of the hundred and thirty-three drawings currently hanging in “Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman & Designer,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, ...

In 1554, the Italian chronicler Giorgio Vasari wrote to Michelangelo entreating the 79-year-old to return to his native Florence from Rome, where the artist had lived for the past four decades. “I ...

As war rages in Ukraine and the pandemic lingers, Michelangelo’s celebrated Vatican Pietà — and two lesser-known figures he also sculpted — can be deeply meaningful to a pain-wracked world, says a ...

Did Michelangelo embed forbidden messages in the frescoes of the famous ceiling? April 28, 2008— -- For centuries, people of all faiths have come to Rome and the Sistine Chapel to stare up at its ...

Michelangelo's David, the towering sculpture acclaimed for its depiction of male physical perfection, has a 'hole' in the back, two anatomy professors announced at a recent conference in Italy.

The 1.8- by 2.6-inch sketch by Michelangelo and an accompanying letter from his descendant, Cosimo Buonarroti Christie's In the early 16th century, the Renaissance master Michelangelo drew a simple ...

Michelangelo, arguably the most famous painter and sculptor in history, had a lesser-known alter ego: Michelangelo the architect. Self-taught at age 40, the Florentine artist spent the second half of ...

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