A new exhibition opening next month at the Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Virginia, explores the Italian ...

Michelangelo was the archetypal Renaissance man who found immense fame in his lifetime and is still remembered as one of the ...

Fresco painting is a technique that dates back ... was his competition against another legendary artist of his time, Michelangelo Buonarroti. In 1504, both Leonardo and Michelangelo were ...

During the four years he spent painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Michelangelo executed hundreds of preparatory drawings, only 50 of which survive today. In March, a rare roundup of these sketches ...

Michelangelo did almost all of the painting in the Sistine Chapel Notwithstanding ... The Last Judgement fresco was censored The Last Judgement was painted 25 years after the Sistine Chapel ...

But Michelangelo could not refuse the demands of a Pope. In 1508 he began. The art of fresco was infamous for separating the great from the merely good. Michelangelo employed assistants for the ...

It may have taken Michelangelo four years to meticulously ... floor-to-ceiling renderings of all 34 frescoes, in an experience that promises art buffs the chance “to engage with the artwork ...

Italy is synonymous with art, featuring masterpieces of frescoes in churches and palaces ... The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo, features iconic scenes and represents the pinnacle ...