William & Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art presents an illuminating exhibition of the Renaissance master’s drawings for the ...

Is there anything left to say about the Sistine Chapel? Adriano Marinazzo, the curator of the accompanying exhibition of the ...

Michelangelo Buonarroti wasn’t a great painter, per his own admission, especially compared to his contemporaries and students ...

The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo Tourists visiting the chapel don’t get long to wonder at the wall where The Last Judgement is painted or at the ceiling frescoes depicting the ...

Although Pope Julius II tempted him to Rome with the prospect of a huge marble mausoleum, in fact, the Pope really needed someone to paint the entire ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo ...

Through May 28, Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine, organized by Special ... quick self-portraits depicting himself painting the chapel’s ceiling at odd and uncomfortable angles, and ...

In Michelangelo’s Expulsion from Paradise, a fresco panel on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the fallen-from ... to examine the wrist detail from the painting, and—using a technique called ...