The Sistine Chapel restoration brought new beauty and wonder to a Renaissance classic. It also brought a chorus of howling ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sixty years later, my heart is still filled with wonder and happiness from seeing Michelangelo's sculpture, one of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

It would be Michelangelo’s 550th birthday this year… Buon compleanno Michelangelo! It’s the iconic artist’s 550th birthday ...

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 ...