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

Michelangelo secretly painted himself onto the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, a scholar of Italian art has sensationally claimed. Adriano Marinazzo, a curator of special projects at William & Mary ...

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 ...

RENAISSANCE: THE BLOOD AND THE BEAUTY Premieres Tuesdays, July 8-22, 2025 at 9:00 pm on PBS and Streaming on PBS.org and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the days before Michelangelo’s death, while his health was deteriorating, the artist built two bonfires and burned everything he could get his hands on.

Michelangelo never painted the actual fresco, but his plan for it was an inspiration to other artists of his day. It was, some said, a kind of school for design, ...

Michelangelo went into hiding and slipped off the grid for a few months. Dal Poggetto had a hunch about the newly discovered room. He had the plaster walls removed, revealing charcoal and chalk ...

INDIANAPOLIS – While art historians have studied Michelangelo’s "David" for centuries, it took the eye of a Marian University cardiologist to see something no one else appears to have recorded ...