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 ...

William & Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art presents an illuminating exhibition of the Renaissance master’s drawings for the ...

In the early 16th century, the Renaissance master Michelangelo drew a simple scribble. The pen-and-ink sketch, which is just a few lines, depicts a marble block with the word simile (Italian for ...

A look at how Michelangelo's sexuality affected his life and work in Renaissance Italy. Show more Michelangelo made religion sexy. That may not have been his initial aim, of course, but the way he ...

Thursday, March 6, marks the 550th anniversary of the birth of Michelangelo Buonarroti. He won’t be blowing out any candles, of course, but his work retains its grip on the public imagination.

It's a classical school, he said, so students see nude images in Renaissance art, including Michelangelo's 16th-century sculpture of David, every year. The problem this time was that the ...

But that wasn’t always the case. During the Renaissance in Italy, there was only one: Michelangelo. A celebrity during his lifetime, between 1475 and 1564, Michelangelo had fans who worshipped ...

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 ...

Through May 28, Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine, organized by Special Exhibition Curator Adriano Marinazzo, incorporates 38 objects in total, including 25 of the Renaissance master’s ...

Michelangelo Buonarotti’s 550th birthday ... the seat of the cultural revival known as the Renaissance. The Opera conducted a successful 2017 campaign to raise €100,000 (about $118,000 ...