Michelangelo's portrait of Cleopatra holding an asp to her breast has been celebrated as an ideal Renaissance composition of an idealized woman. With pearls, braided hair and a slender neck, the last ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Can we call it the Michelangelo Code? The Vatican announced this week ...

Comparison between a Michelangelo drawing in the margins of a letter and his depiction of God in the "Creation of Adam" (images courtesy Adriano Marinazzo) According to a new theory, Michelangelo may ...

In The Creation of Adam, Michelangelo’s masterpiece on the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling, God extends a finger to animate the world’s first man with the spark of life. But what if the famed fresco is ...

Michelangelo probably had osteoarthritis, but his commitment to art may have kept his hands functional until his death in 1564. Those are the conclusions drawn by doctors who studied three portraits ...

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 ...

A new article presents evidence that Michelangelo inserted his self-portrait into a sketch of his close friend, Vittoria Colonna, which is currently in the collection of the British Museum in London, ...

When Isabella Stewart Gardner purchased this self-portrait by the Florentine artist Baccio Bandinelli from the London dealer Colnaghi & Co. in 1899, she did so in the belief that it was a portrait of ...

An ongoing exhibition at the College of William and Mary's Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Virginia, brings seven of Michelangelo's few surviving sketches to light in the United States for ...