Before the Sistine Chapel ceiling, before the David, before any of the masterworks that would make him a legend, a preteen ...

Michelangelo's early painting was attributed to the workshop of Domenico Ghirlandaio for centuries until a cleaning revealed ...

A rare and previously unknown sketch by Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo has gone on public display in Dubai this week ...

One of the few drawings by Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo still in private hands is on view this week at Christie’s ...

It’s been half a millennium since Michelangelo finished painting the cavernous Sistine Chapel. Experts are still discovering hidden symbolism throughout his handiwork. Their latest revelation? The ...

NEW YORK — In 1557, the author and art theorist Lodovico Dolce wrote of the great Last Judgment fresco in the Sistine Chapel: "He who sees one single figure by Michelangelo has seen them all." For a ...

For a new study published in the September 2021 issue of the Czech Republic-based journal Anthropologie, researchers at the Forensic Anthropology, Paleopathology, and Bioarchaeology Research Center in ...

Michelangelo’s artistic masterpiece in the Sistine Chapel broke new ground in portraying the dynamic creative acts of God, but his work also depicts the combined importance of men and women through ...

“The sculpture is already complete within the marble block before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.” That’s how the great Michelangelo ...