This drama-documentary series offers an account of three of Italy’s monumental artists—Leonardo, Raphael and, as played by ...

Step inside the awe-inspiring Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, where Michelangelo’s legendary ceiling frescoes—including The Creation of Adam—unfold above in breathtaking detail, offering a rare and ...

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was better known as a sculptor when Pope Julius II tapped him to illuminate the Sistine Chapel. Known to the world as Michelangelo, the Florentine was ...

Michelangelo’s career was unusually long and complicated. But it can be divided into two halves: the Florentine period until 1534, and the Roman period after. His early work established his fame.

Researchers have claimed that Christ disciple Mary Magdalene may have been hiding in plain sight in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel masterpiece for nearly 500 years. The sneaky figure's identity was ...

Michelangelo made this nude crucifix when he was just 18 years old. It was a thank you to the Augustine monks at San Spirito who let the teen couch surf after his patron, Lorenzo de Medici, died ...

Michelangelo went to Carrara to collect marble for the project and returned to Rome to request additional funds. However, Pope Julius II shifted his focus to constructing the new Saint Peter’s ...

The SMK in Copenhagen couldn’t move the Italian artist’s sculptures, so it’s showing reproductions in the show “Michelangelo Imperfect,” including a new set of ‘identical’ 3D-printed ...

Researchers believe Michelangelo intently etched a woman with breast cancer into the Sistine Chapel. Corbis via Getty Images If so, this discovery may show a pattern conducted by the legendary artist.

The overwhelming grandeur, scope and vision of Michelangelo’s miraculous Sistine Chapel ceiling and “The Last Judgment” frescoes transcend reason and defy human capability. Comprising more ...

The SMK in Copenhagen couldn’t move the Italian artist’s sculptures, so it’s showing reproductions in the show “Michelangelo Imperfect,” including a new set of ‘identical’ 3D-printed ...