The Renaissance master, born 550 years ago, pursued various art forms with astonishing vision and relentless drive.

William & Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art presents an illuminating exhibition of the Renaissance master’s drawings for the ...

The Vatican Museums' Laocoön and His Sons is long considered an exemplar of Hellenistic artistry—but what if it was actually ...

Standing tall under a glass ceiling and bathed in the bright springtime light, Michelangelo’s most famous subject casts a strong figure. There’s motion in David’s pose and an exaggerated humanity in ...

Michelangelo Buonarroti wasn’t a great painter, per his own admission, especially compared to his contemporaries and students ...

Father Giuseppe Pagano is furious. The 65-year-old Augustinian friar and his three fellow monks, who have dedicated their ...

But that wasn’t always the case. During the Renaissance in Italy, there was only one: Michelangelo. A celebrity during his lifetime, between 1475 and 1564, Michelangelo had fans who worshipped ...

The extraordinary is everywhere in the Eternal City, and the best thing about this second Sistine Chapel is that you won’t ...