The Christ figure doesn’t have the musculature for which Michelangelo was famous. In fact, it seems as if here he may have simply been copying previous artists’ depictions. Art historian ...

The biggest Michelangelo exhibition in over a century is planned in Denmark thanks to the use of high-tech 3D replicas.

Michelangelo Buonarroti is recognized as one of the most creative and influential artists in the history of Western art. His most celebrated creations have become icons of world culture: the ...

Michelangelo's next major commission was the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican (1508-1512). It was recognised at once as a great work of art and from then on Michelangelo was regarded ...

In The Story of Art, EH Gombrich mentions that Michelangelo initially refused the commission for frescoes in the vault. “He ...

Michelangelo's 1538 piece - Madonna del Silenzio - is on display at the gallery A collection of several previously unseen historical treasures, including an artwork by Michelangelo, are to go on ...

Visible to those who painted stunning pieces of art on ceilings ... case with many masterpieces created by the great masters: Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Leonardo di Vinci, Botticelli, Raphael ...

The sneaky figure’s identity was floated by Italian art restorer Sara Penco, who is publishing the Biblical bombshell in her book, “Mary Magdalene in Michelangelo’s Judgement,” this week.

Michelangelo’s career was unusually long ... For all the religious art of the 16th century, truly private works of devotion are rare, and drawings artists did for themselves even more so.

Michelangelo's 5.17m (17ft) statue is one of the most famous pieces of Renaissance art. Completed between 1501 and 1504, it depicts a naked David, the Biblical figure who kills the giant Goliath.