It took Michelangelo four years to paint the Sistine Chapel's ceiling. It was grueling, miserable work, as he told a friend in a poem. “I am not in the right place," the Old Master wrote.

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 ...

The statue of David, the Pietà, the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel—these masterpieces by Michelangelo prove that the Early Renaissance artist is one of the most important, influential, and ...

Michelangelo's health began to fail as he grew older; and several times, he'd faced serious illness. It's sad to imagine the art, the limericks, that were destroyed by Michelangelo's own hand, ...

It’s easy to disguise gay love in poetry, if you wish. Even the infamous poem by Oscar Wilde’s lover Alfred Douglas, which contained the line “I am the love that dare not speak its name ...

The exhibit opened at the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo on Feb. 24, and includes the Florentine Pietà, also called the Deposition, which Michelangelo worked on from 1547 to 1555, and exact casts ...

In Michelangelo's Pietà, the Virgin Mary holds her Son as she did at his birth. . Paweesit via Flickr. Viewing art in a church is not the same as viewing it in a museum, the art historian noted.