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.

When awarded the commission to paint the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo was doubted by critics. Silencing them, his beautiful brushstrokes came to embody the peak of Renaissance art.

We meet Michelangelo in Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty as he is training under the Renaissance painter Domenico Ghirlandaio, and he demonstrates a strong affinity for the arts.As depicted ...

The TMNT have defined Renaissance artists Leonardo da Vinci, ... Leonardo, an artist and engineer, was the quintessential Renaissance man, and Michelangelo frescoed the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

Michelangelo Buonarroti, study for ‘The Last Judgement', ... The slight prissiness of much Renaissance art, born of the need to please the patron, gives way to a raw and haggard intensity.

Sadly, those great 19th-century novelists weren’t around during the Renaissance. So it fell to another variety of artist to commemorate the battle. It fell to tapestry makers.

Michelangelo secretly painted himself onto the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, a scholar of Italian art has sensationally claimed. Adriano Marinazzo, a curator of special projects at William & Mary ...

Former owners of the Renaissance artist’s villa want to sell a sketch once on a kitchen wall. But scholars are divided over whether Michelangelo actually drew it. By Elisabetta Povoledo ...