The SMK in Copenhagen couldn’t move the Italian artist’s sculptures, so it’s showing reproductions in the show “Michelangelo Imperfect,” including a new set of ‘identical’ 3D-printed works made by ...

The Sistine Chapel is one of the Catholic Church's most sacred sites. It was painted by Michelangelo over four years in the High Renaissance style, but ho ...

A drawing a British man paid less than £1,000 for is set to sell for £2million after it was confirmed to be the earliest-known sketch by Michelangelo. The drawing, entitled ‘Study of Jupiter ...

In 1534, Michelangelo Buonarroti left his native Florence for the final time. He had been summoned to Rome to work for Pope Clement VII, and would spend the rest of his life there. He was already ...

Michelangelo employed assistants for the most demanding work but sometimes would have to destroy a whole week's work and start again due to plaster drying or other imperfections. Drawing on his ...

In his works, Michelangelo investigated his subjects, interested in what makes them profound or beautiful, and invited the viewers of his work into that process. The Ludovisi Pan is not the work ...

Thursday, March 6, marked the 550th anniversary of the birth of Michelangelo Buonarroti. He won’t be blowing out any candles, of course, but his work retains its grip on the public imagination.

Michelangelo was just five years old in 1480 when Pope Sixtus IV commissioned the building of the Sistine Chapel. The chapel was part of a glorification of the Vatican carried out by Sixtus.

The series interprets Michelangelo’s unfinished series “Prigioni." Mathematical functions allow computer-controlled robots to sculpt life-size unfinished sculptures using an industrial milling ...

One of the most work-intensive replicas they made is a reconstruction of Michelangelo’s early sculpture of St. John the Baptist as an infant from 1495–96, which was housed in El Salvador ...