A remote and neglected masterpiece by Fra Angelico has been restored ahead of the Renaissance legend's major museum show in ...

This drama-documentary series offers an account of three of Italy’s monumental artists—Leonardo, Raphael and, as played by ...

Step inside the awe-inspiring Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, where Michelangelo’s legendary ceiling frescoes—including The ...

In a similar spirit to 'Searching for Sugar Man,' director Fran Guijarro's documentary 'Moses' is an evocative story of being ...

A military funeral was held on the evening of June 15, 2025, at the new crematorium of the General Cemetery, Borella, to bid ...

Masterpiece’ is a lexical term today, which connotes ‘a great work of Art of any genre’ in the world. At times in common practice, when presenting a work of Art, notwithstanding the absence of its ...

The Moses Ezekiel Statuary Vista Garden, featuring all 11 sculptures, at the Norfolk Botanical Garden Samantha Baskind The Smithsonian took possession of Corcoran’s landmark structure in 1965.

Long before Michelangelo, Sisto commissioned painters such as Botticelli to fresco the two long walls of the chapel: one side told the story of Moses, the other the story of Christ. Moreover, while ...

Michelangelo, who considered himself more of a sculptor than a painter—and had already tangled with Julius II over the construction of the latter’s tomb—didn’t want to do it.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with art historian Kim Butler about the artwork that adorns the walls of the Sistine Chapel and its significance ahead of the conclave to elect the next pope.

Some five million people flock to Rome each year to visit Michelangelo’s greatest work, the most iconic example of Catholic iconography and Renaissance painting to exist. However, only a few know that ...

Dustin M. Regul's "Sifting." I n Michelangelo's painting "The Creation of Adam," reclining Adam, his left hand listlessly outstretched, awaits God's animating touch.