Michelangelo’s career was unusually long and complicated. But it can be divided into two halves: the Florentine period until 1534, and the Roman period after. His early work established his fame.

Art historian Margrit Lisner attributes the slenderness of Jesus’s form to the patrons’ wishes, ... Michelangelo, Moses (ca. 1513–15), for the Tomb of Julius II.

The work is also the only Michelangelo painting in North or South America. Acquiring the painting was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Kimbell Art Museum Director Eric Lee said, recalling his ...

Art fraud was a common occurrence in the Italian Renaissance. Even a young Michelangelo took part in such a scheme, long before he became known as one of the greatest artists of all time.

Renaissance figure Michelangelo may have depicted a woman suffering from breast cancer in a famous fresco of a biblical flood on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, according to researchers. The ...

William & Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art presents an illuminating exhibition of the Renaissance master’s drawings for the Sistine Chapel ceiling and ‘The Last Judgment.’ ...

Michelangelo’s Moses has more in common with C.S. Lewis’s Mr. Tumnus than the casual viewer might expect—namely, a couple of stubby horns. Michelangelo wasn’t the first artist to depict ...

Michelangelo Buonarroti, famously known as just Michelangelo, was a brilliant artist of the Renaissance period. Born in 1475, Michelangelo was driven to create beautiful and perfect works and ...

Why did Michelangelo sculpt Moses with horns?. L'Unione Sarda English - L'Unione Sarda English ...

Michelangelo’s iconic Sistine Chapel painting may depict woman with breast cancer - ‘It tells us something interesting about ...