Dozens of drawings Michelangelo made while planning the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel will go on view at the Muscarelle ...

Immersive art exhibitions have been in high demand all year, and Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition is the latest must-see promising to transport art-lovers to another world.

Coinciding with the artist's 550th birthday, 'The Genesis of the Sistine' opens on March 6 at the Muscarelle Museum of Art in ...

The Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary will transport visitors to Renaissance Italy and commemorate the 550th anniversary of Michelangelo’s birth with “Michelangelo: The ...

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.

Hull Minster is to host Michelangelo - A Different View, which allows visitors to view the Florentine master's Sistine Chapel frescos at ground level. The exhibition, which starts in October ...

An experimental exhibition in Denmark is intended to spark debate about the future use of 3D-printed replicas in museums. Plaster cast after Michelangelo Buonarroti, Head of David. Original made ...

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Attractions encompass the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican Museums, making this city-state so immense (and notoriously crowded) that guided Vatican tours are highly recommended.

During the four years he spent painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Michelangelo executed hundreds of preparatory drawings, ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis baptized 21 babies in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday under the ceiling frescoed by Michelangelo, in what has become an annual tradition that marks the end of the ...