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

The painting is part of a series of frescoes that cover the walls and ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.

Caravaggio's 1598 portrait of Maffeo Barberini spent centuries with the family before entering a private collection in the ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Leonardo da Vinci vs. Michelangelo (with assists from Machiavelli) in Gary Graves' compelling drama at Berkeley City Club.

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

This was Michelangelo's old stomping ground ... As Robotor roils the art world, some sculptors, including Tuscan artist Michael Monfroni, are pushing back. Only human touch can coax the divine ...