Michelangelo painted the Last Judgment fresco on the west wall for Pope Paul III between 1534 and 1541. The two gigantic frescoes are considered among the greatest achievements in Western artistic ...

In his book Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Giorgio Vasari, the 16th-century architect, artist, and writer, records some of Michelangelo’s trials. The fresco ...

The frescoes are some 500 years old and they get damaged by all the oxygen in the air. On top of that, when you look up some 60 feet up at, Adam looks a postage stamp," Biallas said.

Michelangelo painted the Last Judgment fresco on the west wall for Pope Paul III between 1534 and 1541. The two gigantic frescoes are considered among the greatest achievements in Western artistic ...

The Vatican announced this week that restorations of frescoes by Michelangelo show that the artist incorporated what is believed to be a portrait of himself in one of the murals.

Michelangelo for all his immense fame isn’t the most immediately lovable of artists. People crowd to stare in awe at his iconic statue David and mega-fresco The Last Judgement in the Sistine ...

The frescoes were completed in 1550 when Michelangelo was 75 and are considered the completion of the biblical cycle of illustrations by the artist begun in the adjoining Sistine Chapel. According to ...

VATICAN CITY, July 2 (UPI) -- A multimillion-dollar renovation of the last frescoes painted by Michelangelo at the Vatican may have uncovered a self-portrait of the artist. Restorers spent seven ...

NEW YORK — In 1557, the author and art theorist Lodovico Dolce wrote of the great Last Judgment fresco in the Sistine Chapel: "He who sees one single figure by Michelangelo has seen them all." ...

The cleaning of Michelangelo’s frescoes for the Sistine Chapel has prompted one art historian to offer a new reason why Michelangelo was asked to paint the chapel in 1508 and another art ...

Michelangelo may have depicted a woman suffering from breast cancer in a famous fresco of a biblical flood on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, researchers have suggested. The naked woman, who is ...