The Torment of Saint Anthony is the earliest surviving work attributed to Michelangelo, painted by him in 1487 or 1488 when ...

In The Creation of Adam, Michelangelo’s masterpiece on the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling, God extends a finger to animate the world’s first man with the spark of life. But what if the famed fresco is ...

A small chalk drawing of a foot, made more than 500 years ago by the famous Italian artist Michelangelo, has sold for $27.2 million (£20 million.) The sketch is just 13cm long and experts think it was ...

The Renaissance master earned a record sum with this sketch of a foot linked to the Sistine Chapel.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

This drawing reportedly sets the record for the most spent at auction for a piece of Michelangelo artwork ...

A detail of Michelangelo's signature on the "Pietà" (collage by Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic, images via Dennis H. Cremin and Wikipedia) ROME — Upon entering the vast papal basilica of St. Peter in ...

The Medici and the legacy of Michelangelo in late Renaissance Florence : an introduction / Alan P. Darr -- Michelangelo and the Medici / Cristina Acidini Luchinat -- The Medici grand-ducal family and ...