Florence's new Galleria dell’Accademia di Firenze e Musei del Bargello brings seven local institutions together—and has a ...

Before the Sistine Chapel ceiling, before the David, before any of the masterworks that would make him a legend, a preteen ...

The 11 essays published in the posthumous volume, Michelangelo’s Painting: Selected Essays by Leo Steinberg (edited by Sheila Schwartz, University of Chicago Press, 2019), discuss Michelangelo’s early ...

Francis Bacon has turned 100, and the AARP is beckoning the theoretical girls and boys of the Pictures Generation, but Michelangelo is forever young. With the opening of Michelangelo’s First Painting, ...

Michelangelo's early painting was attributed to the workshop of Domenico Ghirlandaio for centuries until a cleaning revealed ...

FORT WORTH - Michelangelo is famous for painting the ornate, delicate ceilings of the Sistine Chapel in Italy. There are only four stand-alone paintings by Michelangelo in the entire world; one of ...

The Florentine artist spent four years painting the challenging chapel against his will, but would have much rather been sculpting - Lucas Schifres/Getty Images Contributor Michelangelo never wanted ...

PHOENIX — The historic Sistine Chapel may be more than 6,000 miles away from Phoenix, but Arizonans will have a chance to see replicas of Michelangelo's famous frescoes up-close. "Michelangelo's ...

Michelangelo for all his immense fame isn’t the most immediately lovable of artists. People crowd to stare in awe at his iconic statue David and mega-fresco The Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel, ...

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