A new exhibition opening next month at the Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Virginia, explores the Italian ...
He covered the ceiling with 300 figures and stories from the Bible, including the creation ... Sistine Chapel were arguably the greatest works of Renaisssance art. As his career escalated ...
Michelangelo was the archetypal Renaissance man who found immense fame in his lifetime and is still remembered as one of the ...
Michelangelo was just five years old in 1480 when Pope Sixtus IV commissioned the building of the Sistine ... image of God creating Adam also features a woman, thought to be Eve The chapel ...
Dozens of drawings Michelangelo made while planning the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel will go on view at ... He knew he was dying. He never created them for public display,” Marinazzo said.
Such is the case with many masterpieces created ... many more. Michelangelo’s stunning, fresco masterpiece, The Last Judgment, located on the entire altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in the ...
The Sistine Chapel just got a makeover. Vatican officials unveiled new state-of-the-art energy-efficient lighting and air purification systems to protect Michelangelo’s more than 500-year old ...
During the four years he spent painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Michelangelo executed hundreds of preparatory drawings, only 50 of which survive today. In March, a rare roundup of these sketches ...