Michelangelo’s famous frescoes at the Sistine Chapel were originally met with scorn, concern, and controversy.

It’s been half a millennium since Michelangelo finished painting the cavernous Sistine Chapel. Experts are still discovering hidden symbolism throughout his handiwork. Their latest revelation? The ...

The 11 essays published in the posthumous volume, Michelangelo’s Painting: Selected Essays by Leo Steinberg (edited by Sheila Schwartz, University of Chicago Press, 2019), discuss Michelangelo’s early ...

The Sistine Chapel in the Vatican owes its name to Pope Sixtus IV (1471-84) who commissioned it. The three-storey brick building was created to serve as a space for meetings of the papal court. It was ...

Michelangelo’s fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, one of the world’s most iconic pieces of art, celebrated its 500th anniversary on Wednesday in Vatican City. Michelangelo’s fresco on the ...

Laurin explained that the frescoes that Michelangelo painted more than 500 years ago were reproduced by a special state-of-the-art process. "They were able to produce the look and feel of a fresco," ...

"The Prophet Isaiah" by Michelangelo is one of the creation frescoes on the Sistine Chapel ceiling at the Vatican in Rome. SEE Attractions and Bridgeman Images Has the coronavirus pandemic nixed your ...

PHOENIX — The historic Sistine Chapel may be more than 6,000 miles away from Phoenix, but Arizonans will have a chance to see replicas of Michelangelo's famous frescoes up-close. "Michelangelo's ...

The most ambitious and controversial art-restoration project of the 20th century, the cleaning of Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, is in its eighth year, with five years still to go. All ...

“Until you have seen the Sistine Chapel,” the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote in “Italian Journey,” an account of his travels across Italy in the 1780s, “you can have no adequate ...

Francis Bacon has turned 100, and the AARP is beckoning the theoretical girls and boys of the Pictures Generation, but Michelangelo is forever young. With the opening of Michelangelo’s First Painting, ...