A diverse team of experts is arguing that Michelangelo painted one woman in the Sistine Chapel with breast cancer, for ...

Recent studies show that some characters in the Sistine Chapel frescoes may show signs of illness: what does that mean?

Michelangelo was not merely a giant of the Renaissance. He was also one of the era's most controversial personalities. Art ...

A fleet of marble-sculpting robots is carving out the future of the art world. It's a move some artists see as cheating, but ...

But Michelangelo could not refuse the demands of a Pope. In 1508 he began. The art of fresco was infamous for separating the great from the merely good. Michelangelo employed assistants for the ...

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

A calculated flaw in perfection. New research suggests that Renaissance master artist Michelangelo Buonarroti had etched a ...

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