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 ...

Some in the artist community were circumspect ... from the election of Pope Sixtus IV in 1471 to Michelangelo returning to paint The Last Judgement between 1535-1541 – as “70 years of multiple ...

A hidden detail in Michelangelo’s "The Flood" may reveal a woman with breast cancer, adding a shocking twist to the iconic Sistine Chapel masterpiece.

19.3 x 35 cm. (7.6 x 13.8 in.) ...

Over the past 20 centuries a succession of popes have made this center of faith into a center of culture and art ... Michelangelo modeled his portrayal of Christ the Judge in the "Last Judgment ...

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Led by forensic pathologist Andreas G. Nerlich of Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, a team of international experts propose that Michelangelo's fresco "The Flood" in the Sistine Chapel portrays ...

Art lovers and history enthusiasts rejoice! A new exhibit replicating Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel debuted ... masterpieces ranging from “The Creation of Adam” to “The Last Judgment.” Exhibit doors ...

An international team of experts has discovered that one of the figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, adorned with ...

Michelangelo seems to have given the cartoon to the writer and painter Ascanio Condivi – perhaps as thanks for his “authorised” biography of the artist. Condivi’s finished painting is ...

Yet, as the Royal Academy’s ­exhibition, Michelangelo, Leonardo ... a brilliant show at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art last year. In the late 1860s, a few years after they’d first ...

The art is 60 feet high ... Photo by John McCarten Guests take in "The Last Judgement." Photo by John McCarten Guests taking in Michelangelo's work. Photo by John McCarten Haley Carre, one ...