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 ...

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 ...

Michelangelo Buonarroti, Leonardo da Vinci, and Raphael’s captivating works produce a grand scale of awe and occasion that ...

We'll update this post as necessary. For years, a rumor circulated online that Michelangelo Buonarroti, one of the most renowned artists of the Renaissance, painted an image of Jesus based on his ...

Renaissance geopolitics were notoriously convoluted ... The finished tapestries, which were delivered to the Vatican in 1520, cost five times more than Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel paintings, and ...

During the Renaissance, a period of artistic and intellectual awakening, painters developed innovative techniques that ...

The lives and times of the three great masters of the Renaissance period are at the heart of a new BBC series which casts its gaze over the broad canvas of this brutal and bloody era. Renaissance ...

She said the statue was created by Michelangelo Buonarroti, the Renaissance master who painted the Sistine Chapel and etched David out of marble before his 1564 death. She learned this from her ...

The small but provocative survey offers a stimulating view on which of the Old Masters launched the High Renaissance ...

Art historian and educator Thomas A. Walters examines the symbolic and thematic richness of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel frescoes in his latest book.

Renaissance geopolitics were notoriously ... cost five times as much as Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel paintings, and they inspired Bernard van Orley, working in Brussels, the center of tapestry ...