An international team of experts has discovered that one of the figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, adorned with ...

Sixteenth-century art historian Giorgi Vasari told the tale of how Michelangelo made his mark ... Then, to make sure crowds would safely pass by the sculpture, conveyor belt-style mobile walkways were ...

A London exhibition shows how the three painters circled one another as rivals and role models in 16th-century Florence.

Michelangelo was known for his interest in the human anatomy, which included the dissection of corpses to better inform his own artistic depictions. “Michelangelo, who began assisting to ...

“The Renaissance was not only a period of artistic creativity, it marked the dawn of surgery,” Dr Bianucci told The Telegraph. Michelangelo was well known for his studies of the human body and ...

But not everyone is happy. One artist told us, Michelangelo would be rolling in his grave. The jagged ridges of the Apuan Alps stretch for 30 miles across northern Tuscany. Even in summer ...