Michelangelo employed assistants for the most demanding work but sometimes would have to destroy a whole week's work and start again due to plaster drying or other imperfections. Drawing on his ...

Some artists are turning to advanced robots for help sculpting masterpieces, even as others decry robots as cheating that ...

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

A diverse team of experts is arguing that Michelangelo painted one woman in the Sistine Chapel with breast cancer, for ...

The fact modern doctors can recognize it reveals Michelangelo’s extraordinary capacity for and dedication to anatomical accuracy.

Every year, millions of visitors flock to the Sistine Chapel to admire the frescoes painted by Michelangelo during the Renaissance. The frescoes on the ceiling of the building depict various scenes ...

A calculated flaw in perfection. New research suggests that Renaissance master artist Michelangelo Buonarroti had etched a ...

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 ...

What was to be done with the monumental statue depicting David the Goliath killer, which the young sculptor Michelangelo had just completed in a shed, set up in the works yard of the cathedral. The ...

A ceiling panel from Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel on display. Photo by John McCarten A cornerstone work of High Renaissance art, the exhibition features the artist’s 34 frescoes reproduced ...

A deep dive into two London shows bringing together key works of the movement, and a spectacular series of tapestries ...