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 than 600 ...

Many modern Michaels have etched their names into pop culture and household recognition, from singers like Jackson to actors like Keaton to athletes like Jordan. To refer to a famous Michael, these ...

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 ...

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 ...

Michelangelo‘s famed Sistine Chapel is coming to cities across the U.S. thanks to high-resolution, nearly full-scale reproductions of the artist’s famed frescoes. (The originals, of course, can only ...

The enduring impact of Michelangelo’s canon of the heroic male nude, shaped over the course of his career, is hard to overstate and thrilling to watch unfold. The Albertina Museum’s rich graphic-arts ...

One of the most famous artists of all time, Renaissance master Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni is known for many things: his decoration of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel (which is currently ...

Msgr. Verdon said that the Vatican Pietà is the only one of the three to remain in the place it was intended for — above an altar in St. Peter’s Basilica. A close-up of the copy of Michelangelo's ...

On Sept. 8, 1504, Michelangelo’s towering marble statue of David was unveiled to the public in Florence, Italy. The 17-foot-tall, 12,000-pound statue carved from a single block of white Italian ...

An early drawing attributed to Michelangelo that was rediscovered in 2019 after going under the radar for centuries sold for $24.4 million in Paris Tuesday, breaking the previous record for any work ...