In Michelangelo's painting "The Creation of Adam," reclining Adam, his left hand listlessly outstretched, awaits God's ...

Part of Michelangelo's work that adorns the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, Italy. Credit: Getty Images It's all in the details. The Sistine Chapel can now be viewed from a whole new ...

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

The Vatican may have been home to a series of 16 erotic frescos that were quickly turned into a booklet with accompanying ...

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

Michelangelo was just five years old in 1480 when Pope Sixtus IV commissioned the building of the Sistine Chapel. The chapel was part of a glorification of the Vatican carried out by Sixtus.

Entering the Sistine Chapel is an exercise in wonder. It is swathed in art, seemingly no expense spared, and there’s barely a soul inside to detract from the visual onslaught. To anyone who has ...