Visiting the site of Michelangelo's most unfiltered work allows travelers a first-hand insight into the artist's past, the history of Italian art, and turbulent tales of Florence. Michelangelo di ...

I love an excuse to revisit an old favourite, even better when it offers a way of enjoying it in a new light. The Royal Academy’s exhibition on Florence does exactly that, exploring the city through ...

A few feet away, a pen-and-ink study of the Virgin and Child by Raphael – who arrived in Florence ... an oil painting of the Virgin and Child that recasts Michelangelo’s motif.

Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel between 1508 and 1512. The building was built between 1473 and 1481 and is the most ...

Imagine, if you will, Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael sitting together at a Florentine lunch table, discussing painting over a bowl of thick Tuscan soup.

In 1999, the piece was included in an exhibition dedicated to Michelangelo in Florence, but the painting was attributed to the “workshop of Domenico Ghirlandaio,” the artist whom Michelangelo ...