It’s been half a millennium since Michelangelo finished painting the cavernous Sistine Chapel. Experts are still discovering hidden symbolism throughout his handiwork. Their latest revelation? The ...

The 11 essays published in the posthumous volume, Michelangelo’s Painting: Selected Essays by Leo Steinberg (edited by Sheila Schwartz, University of Chicago Press, 2019), discuss Michelangelo’s early ...

In one of the most recognizable and reproduced images ever created, a reclining Adam reaches out for the extended arm of his hovering God, who is enveloped in a crimson robe and surrounded by ...

TONAWANDA, N.Y. (AP) — Martin Kober is convinced the painting of a dying Jesus that hung above the mantel in his upstate New York childhood home is the work of Michelangelo. Getting experts to agree ...

The most ambitious and controversial art-restoration project of the 20th century, the cleaning of Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, is in its eighth year, with five years still to go. All ...

The restoration of Michelangelo's frescoes in the Vatican's Pauline Chapel may have produced a special prize — a previously unknown self-portrait of the artist. Chief Vatican restorer Maurizio De Luca ...

Francis Bacon has turned 100, and the AARP is beckoning the theoretical girls and boys of the Pictures Generation, but Michelangelo is forever young. With the opening of Michelangelo’s First Painting, ...

When Martin Biallis went to see Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Sistine Chapel about 10 years ago, he found the overall experience wanting. “It’s 10,000 square feet, you’re there with 2,000 people, ...

Martin Kober displays literature and copies of a family heirloom that he believes was painted by Renaissance master Michelangelo. AP TONAWANDA, N.Y. — Martin Kober is convinced the painting of a dying ...

Even if you’re lucky enough to have seen Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, you’ve never seen it from this angle. Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Exhibition, featuring ...

A rare and previously unknown sketch by Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo has gone on public display in Dubai this week ...