His most famous works included Pieta, David, and the monumental ceiling paintings in the Sistine Chapel. Read on to learn more about Michelangelo Buonarotti’s most outstanding works ...

Indeed, art historian William E. Wallace points out that the work was paid such scant attention that not even contemporaneous Michelangelo authorities knew much about it: “It was so little known ...

Here is how Vasari tells the tale: Michelangelo placed so much love and labour in this work that on it (something he did in no other work) he left his name written across a sash which girds Our ...

Most have never been shown together. In total, some 38 objects are going on view, including a famous portrait of Michelangelo in the time between his work painting the ceiling and The Last ...

Michelangelo’s “Study for the Risen Christ,” which ... a noted collector who purchased the drawing at Christie’s in 1936, handed the work back for auction. “It is one of the most ...

Condivi’s work, loaned from Casa Buonarroti in Florence, the museum dedicated to Michelangelo and his works, will go on show in the exhibition. Godfrey adds that “the central figure ...

Sketches on the walls of a hidden room in a Florentine chapel may have been the work of Michelangelo, who sought refuge from the Medici family in 1530. Charcoal drawings on the wall of a cellar ...

“When you’re up close, you see the cracks, you can see the brushstrokes, you see everything that Michelangelo did,” Noland said. “This is exactly his work.” The exhibit came about after ...

A ceiling panel from Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel on display. Photo by John McCarten A cornerstone work of High Renaissance art, the exhibition features the artist’s 34 frescoes reproduced ...