If you ever wanted to own a Michelangelo, now is your chance. On April 17, Christie’s is auctioning off one of the Italian master’s drawings tagged with the estimate of $6,000 to 8,000—a steal ...

What are we to make of Michelangelo Buonarroti? Was he a man of true faith, or was he given over to the sins that marred his time? After all, it was the age of the Renaissance, when Europe basked in ...

In 1554, the Italian chronicler Giorgio Vasari wrote to Michelangelo entreating the 79-year-old to return to his native Florence from Rome, where the artist had lived for the past four decades. “I ...

Michelangelo was good at many things: he could carve a beautiful Madonna, paint a stunning ceiling, and write a homoerotic poem. But did you know he could also design military fortifications? He was, ...

Michelangelo’s artistic masterpiece in the Sistine Chapel broke new ground in portraying the dynamic creative acts of God, but his work also depicts the combined importance of men and women through ...

Calling Michelangelo's David iconic is something of an understatement: A monument of art history both literally and figuratively, it is undoubtedly the world's most famous sculpture-and, with a height ...

Michelangelo is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant and iconic artists from the Renaissance period. From his paintings to his sculptures, they are all loved, appreciated, and admired by people. And ...

Complete with cracks, staining and other imperfections, a 3D printed copy of Michelangelo’s sculptural masterpiece David aims to be the most faithful replica of the statue ever made. The 17-foot copy ...

ROME — Michelangelo, who painted the ceiling of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel and designed the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica, passed himself off as poor but was actually too miserly to show his huge ...

The 1.8- by 2.6-inch sketch by Michelangelo and an accompanying letter from his descendant, Cosimo Buonarroti Christie's In the early 16th century, the Renaissance master Michelangelo drew a simple ...

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