What are we to make of Michelangelo Buonarroti? Was he a man of true faith, or was he given over to the sins that marred his time? After all, it was the age of the Renaissance, when Europe basked in ...

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 ...

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, ...

Five years since experts finally agreed it's a Michelangelo, the sketch is at last up for grabs. Michelangelo, Study of Jupiter (ca. 1490). Courtesy of Dickinson. The British Museum’s Nicholas Turner ...

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 ...

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 ...

Michelangelo, arguably the most famous painter and sculptor in history, had a lesser-known alter ego: Michelangelo the architect. Self-taught at age 40, the Florentine artist spent the second half of ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chadd Scott covers the intersection of art and travel. Some exhibitions sell themselves. Michelangelo Sistine Chapel sketches ...

As war rages in Ukraine and the pandemic lingers, Michelangelo’s celebrated Vatican Pietà — and two lesser-known figures he also sculpted — can be deeply meaningful to a pain-wracked world, says a ...