Renaissance: The Blood and The Beauty explores the lives of three rival artists - Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael – who ...

The Renaissance rivals Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Raphael vied for the attention of wealthy Italian patrons during the early ...

The man who always signed his name “Michelangelo, sculttore”, was also, in spite of himself, a painter. Although Pope Julius II tempted him to Rome with the prospect of a huge marble mausoleum ...

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

Show at the King's Gallery features an 'enormous cache' of works by the likes of Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael ...

Michelangelo may have depicted a woman suffering from breast cancer in a famous fresco of a biblical flood on the ceiling of ...

A deep dive into two London shows bringing together key works of the movement, and a spectacular series of tapestries ...

Michelangelo's depiction in "The Flood" suggests ... However, applying modern data to the Renaissance period is not entirely accurate, as the average life expectancy then was around 35 years ...

(The same jostling trium­virate will also be the subject of Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty, a forthcoming three-part docu-drama on the BBC – starring Charles Dance as Michelangelo.) ...

CHARLES Dance is taking on a completely new challenge in the BBC’s latest historical docu-drama, Renaissance: The Blood and The Beauty. Known for playing the commanding Lord Mountbatten in The ...

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