Michelangelo’s famous frescoes at the Sistine Chapel were originally met with scorn, concern, and controversy.

If Michelangelo had been granted his dying wish, none of the hundred and thirty-three drawings currently hanging in “Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman & Designer,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, ...

Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo are two of the world’s most famous artists, having each created multiple masterpieces that pull millions of eager visitors each year to museums. They knew each other ...

The walls of a “secret” underground room discovered in 1975, covered in sketches by the persecuted Michelangelo, are now being unveiled to the public for the first time. The Italian Renaissance master ...

In 1554, the Italian chronicler Giorgio Vasari wrote to Michelangelo entreating the 79-year-old to return to his native Florence from Rome, where the artist had lived for the past four decades. “I ...

Hanging on the palatial red walls on the second floor of the Muscarelle Museum of Art are some of Michelangelo’s most rare and precious drawings. Sketches upon sketches glimmer under the subdued light ...

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The man who always signed his name “Michelangelo, sculttore”, was also, in spite of himself, a painter. Although Pope Julius II tempted him to Rome with the prospect of a huge marble mausoleum, in ...

First attributed to Michelangelo in 2019, an early drawing by the great Tuscan artist now comes on the market after five years of discussion among scholars. It has been recognized as the earliest ...

Michelangelo, or Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, was one of the world’s most talented and prolific artists and sculptors of all time. He was a true visionary whose talents ranged from ...