Twenty-five drawings in all media make Michelangelo: Sacred and Profane the most important Michelangelo show seen in the U.S. in decades. The Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary ...

German art historian Frank Zöllner expresses serious doubts over the legitimacy of the recently unveiled ‘Rothschild Bronzes’ attributed to Michelangelo (see Michelangelo’s Only Surviving Bronzes ...

THE DAILY PIC (#1501): So yesterday morning, the 1,500th edition of this column featured a High Renaissance miracle by Raphael … and then within an hour or two I’d received this amazing photograph of ...

FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Michelangelo’s David has been a towering figure in Italian culture since its completion in 1504. But in the current era of the quick buck, curators worry the marble statue’s ...

On Feb. 12, 1564, sculptor Daniele da Volterra stopped by the studio of Michelangelo and found him working on a block of Carrara marble. The sculpture, which depicts Mary and Jesus and is known as the ...

The American Jewish writer Irving Stone (born Tannenbaum) aptly titled his 1961 novel about Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling paintings “The Agony and the Ecstasy.” For centuries, ecstatic ...

A long-missing Michelangelo sketch for the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica, possibly his last design before his death, has been discovered in the basilica’s offices, the Vatican newspaper said Thursday.

Michelangelo's heroic David could be on the move after 135 years in the museum designed to showcase the marble masterpiece. The impact of mass tourism on Florence's city center is forcing officials to ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition is kicking off Friday at Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum. The immersive experience will show off the art in a unique way, without ...

You no longer need a plane ticket to Italy to see Michelangelo’s masterpiece at the Sistine Chapel. You can get even closer to it in Brooklyn. At Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition®, ...

Michelangelo Buonarotti (1475-1564) burned his drawings by the bushel for many reasons, including a desire to prevent imitators from ripping off his ideas, and to assert the primacy of his finished ...

Michelangelo was quite a talented fellow! I mean, the Pietà! The statue of David! The Sistine Chapel! The acclaimed sculptor, artist and architect was considered a master by his Renaissance peers; and ...