In 1508 he began. The art of fresco was infamous for separating the great from the merely good. Michelangelo employed assistants for the most demanding work but sometimes would have to destroy a ...

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

A new study by the University of Paris-Saclay suggests that the scene of ‘The Flood’ in the Sistine Chapel frescoes depicts a ...

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

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

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 ...

Some artists are turning to advanced robots for help sculpting masterpieces, even as others decry robots as cheating that ...

where art is studied through a medical lens to supplement understanding of health issues at the time. Researchers have ...

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

Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt, an art-history professor at New York University, took a look and thought it was made by Michelangelo himself, perhaps one of his early works. Other scholars were ...