Artist Philip Colbert displays his modern reimagining of "The Manchester Madonna" next to the original housed at London's National Gallery. A contemporary artist who crams his canvases full of pop ...

The play is based on true events. Two beloved painters were each asked to create murals on opposing walls in Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio. There’s da Vinci: painter of "The Last Supper" and the "Mona ...

Michelangelo for all his immense fame isn’t the most immediately lovable of artists. People crowd to stare in awe at his iconic statue David and mega-fresco The Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel, ...

On March 6, 1475, in the Tuscan town of Caprese, in Italy, a child was born who would become one of history's most celebrated ...

If I could go back in time, I might choose the autumn of 1512, when Michelangelo was a few luscious paint-strokes away from completing the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. I’d have found the then ...

It is also 450 years since the death of Michel­angelo. That anniversary has hardly been noticed — although Michelangelo had as great an impact on visual arts in the West as Shakespeare has had on its ...

A painting believed to be a lost work of Renaissance master Michelangelo is believed to have been rediscovered — and then, just as quickly, disappeared again. A Belgian pastor says the 16th Century ...

Sometimes the art market is best gauged not by the action in the evening sales but by the more modest results achieved in the day sales. In this landmark exhibition, Michelangelo Pistoletto, a pioneer ...

When you picture Michelangelo, does the image in your mind resemble Moses? Ben-Hur? In other words, Charlton Heston? Heston's portrayal of Michelangelo in the classic film "The Agony and the Ecstasy" ...