Soon after, Michelangelo Buonarroti is invited to design the same bridge, but he declines the offer. In Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants , Mathias Énard imagines what might have been ...

A self portrait of Michelangelo has been discovered - hidden in one of his famous sketches for 500 years. The sketch is disguised in a drawing of the artist's close friend, Vittoria Colonna, on ...

Born in 1475 outside Florence, Michelangelo Buonarroti was famous for his explosive temper, but also for the loyalty of his friends. Believe it or not, he didn't like painting.

Thursday, March 6, marked the 550th anniversary of the birth of Michelangelo Buonarroti. He won’t be blowing out any candles, of course, but his work retains its grip on the public imagination.

Michelangelo Buonarroti, by Daniele da Volterra (Daniele Ricciarelli), ca. 1544.(The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Clarence Dillon, 1977) B orn into an impecunious Tuscan family of the minor ...

As to Michelangelo’s character, we have the testimony of Scipione Ammirato in his history of Florence, published the year of the sculptor’s death, 1564, who stated that “Buonarroti having ...

A pair of recent papers claim that Michelangelo hid references to female reproductive organs in his work. But did he even know what those would look like?

Michelangelo's – and the Buonarrotis' – home turf is Tuscany, and Tuscany, as we know, is filled with glorious hillside farms. What Leonardo found for his uncle was a splendid villa built ...

Before carving “David” or covering the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling in frescoes, Michelangelo Buonarroti painted “The Torment of Saint Anthony.” Created when he was either 12 or 13 years old ...

It may just be the most intimate, up-close-and-personal, no-scaffolding-required way to experience the ceiling masterpiece by the Italian artist-sculptor Michelangelo Buonarroti.

Michelangelo Buonarroti, who lived from 1475 to 1564, was the first artist recognised by contemporaries as a genius, according to the National Gallery in London.