Maybe all you know of Michelangelo is that he’s one of four Italian Renaissance artists whose names got co-opted for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. Chances are, you’ll still get a charge ...
On Sept. 8, 1504, Michelangelo’s towering marble statue of David was unveiled to the public in Florence, Italy. The 17-foot-tall, 12,000-pound statue carved from a single block of white Italian ...
One of the most famous artists of all time, Renaissance master Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni is known for many things: his decoration of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel (which is currently ...
Want to organize a Michelangelo exhibition? Buckle up—it’s going to be a wild ride. The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s stunning survey of Michelangelo drawings (on view through February 15) required ...
Michelangelo was one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance, revered for masterpieces like the Sistine Chapel ceiling and the statue of David. But early in his career Michelangelo was involved in ...
The Courtauld gallery, that sombre, academic institution, dares to go where Irving Stone never went in his bestselling novel about Michelangelo, The Agony and the Ecstasy. It refutes, with all the ...
The Laocoon, a sculpture depicting the death struggle of a Trojan priest and his two sons against writhing sea serpents, was unearthed to great excitement in an underground chamber. The Laocoon, a ...
A respected Italian art scholar claims to have identified a previously unknown painting by Michelangelo at the University of Oxford. Antonio Forcellino, a veteran Italian conservator, made ...
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