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 ...

Dozens of drawings Michelangelo made while planning the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel will go on view at the Muscarelle ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Michelangelo's David is among the most famous pieces of Renaissance artwork and remains a well-known symbol of Italy. More than 1.4 million people visit the sculpture annually at Florence's ...

Plaster cast after Michelangelo Buonarroti ... in due course influencing the Renaissance masters and Western culture at large. Not only would ideas spread far via reproduction, but otherwise ...

The Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary will transport visitors to Renaissance Italy and commemorate the 550th anniversary of Michelangelo’s birth with “Michelangelo: The ...