Besides Parthenon Sculptures, many other equally magnificent pieces of Greek art are displayed in various museums around the ...

Rene Magritte’s painting "L’empire des lumières" fetched $121.2 million at Christie’s New York, a new record for the Belgian ...

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

Ken Burns dives into the boundless curiosity at the core of Leonardo da Vinci's exploits in new PBS documentary.

Italy is world-renowned for its art, and there's nowhere better to see this art on display than its museums. These are the ...

exploring the city through the seminal works of art that were made, commissioned or displayed at the high point of the Italian Renaissance – the year 1504. It was a moment when three of the world’s ...

The fact modern doctors can recognize it reveals Michelangelo’s extraordinary capacity for and dedication to anatomical accuracy.

Every year, millions of visitors flock to the Sistine Chapel to admire the frescoes painted by Michelangelo during the Renaissance. The frescoes on the ceiling of the building depict various scenes ...

Michelangelo was no stranger to death and disease. Unlike many contemporary artists who honed their craft by studying living ...

Plan of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, with 'The Great Flood' depicted in the second vault, in the center left (Begoon/Wikimedia Commons/CC-BY-SA 3.0) Michelangelo was a seasoned artist in his thirties ...

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

Is a pathological feature captured in a painting a witnessed event documenting a physical observation, or is it symbolic of something else? In a study, "Did Michelangelo paint a young adult woman ...