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After the Metropolitan Museum’s expansive “Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman & Designer” you’d think there’d be nothing left to say on the subject of that artist and his works on paper.

Needless to say, Moses was pissed, and it’s precisely this anger that Michelangelo skillfully embodies in his eight-foot seated sculpture. Moses isn’t just sitting down, though.

Moses, the man who was the epitome of power and authority, gives off the same energy from his sculpture by Michelangelo. It is part of the tomb of Pope Julius II, and is considered one of ...

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 the ...

Michelangelo’s ‘Moses’ is the epitome of Renaissance art, a piece so grand and awe-worthy that it forces people to stand in awe of its beauty and precision.

Moses was “Bob” to Spellman, but Spellman was always “Your Eminence” to Moses. Born to a secular German Jewish family ... one of the most moving and dramatic statues ever made and represents one of ...

There's something eternally fascinating about the art of sculpture, more so when it depicts the human form. Michelangelo, for example, lived and created more than 500 years ago, yet we still ...

One artist told us, Michelangelo would be rolling in his grave. The jagged ridges of the Apuan Alps stretch for 30 miles across northern Tuscany. Even in summer, ...