William & Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art presents an illuminating exhibition of the Renaissance master’s drawings for the ...

The extraordinary is everywhere in the Eternal City, and the best thing about this second Sistine Chapel is that you won’t have to fight through the crowds.

Michelangelo Buonarroti wasn’t a great painter, per his own admission, especially compared to his contemporaries and students ...

The overwhelming grandeur, scope and vision of Michelangelo’s miraculous Sistine Chapel ceiling and “The Last Judgment” frescoes transcend reason and defy human capability. Comprising more ...

Learn more about how these experiments show that those small electrical charges can trigger the chemical reactions necessary ...

The exhibition runs through May 28 and features 25 sketches he made while planning designs for his fresco on the ceiling and altar of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. It’s the type of art ...

Here’s a look at the Vatican, also known as the Holy See, the spiritual and governing center of the Roman Catholic Church. Facts The full name of the country is State of Vatican City. It stands on ...

1473-1481 – The Sistine Chapel is constructed. April 18, 1506 – Pope Nicholas V begins rebuilding and expanding St. Peter’s Basilica. 1508-1512 – Michelangelo paints the ceiling of the ...

Adam is depicted with distinctly European features—fair skin, —reflecting the aesthetics and ideals of Renaissance Italy rather than the historical realities of biblical Mesopotamia. Michelangelo, ...