When it comes to the High Renaissance, Michelangelo Buonarotti (1475-1564) is as high as it gets. A peerless sculptor, expert draftsman, and reluctant but skilled painter, he was not only one of ...
The 91-year-old artist has transformed an old Italian mill into an experimental school, restaurant — and next, a ‘cultural ...
Ensuring artists get credit for their digital work will accelerate many creative careers, says Adobe's Scott Belsky.
The biggest Michelangelo exhibition in over a century is planned in Denmark thanks to the use of high-tech 3D replicas.
In The Story of Art, EH Gombrich mentions that Michelangelo initially refused the commission for frescoes in the vault. “He ...
Michelangelo was acutely conscious of living in an age of religious crisis and artistic change, and for him the two issues were related. Michelangelo and the Reform of Art explores Michelangelo's ...
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 ...
Arte Povera artist Michelangelo Pistoletto has created a new version of Caravaggio's Nativity , stolen in 1969 from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Sicily, to pay tribute to the lost masterpiece.
Imagine, if you will, Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael sitting together at a Florentine lunch table, discussing painting over a bowl of thick Tuscan soup.
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Leonardo da Vinci, and Raphael’s captivating works produce a grand scale of awe and occasion that ...
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers announces the sale of property from the estate of Steve and Peggy Fossett. This landmark collection will be sold at auction October 30 and 31 and will be on view in Chicago ...
The small but provocative survey offers a stimulating view on which of the Old Masters launched the High Renaissance ...