The Lisle Heritage Society will host a program on “Our Lady of the World’s Fair” at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 4, at First Congregational Church, 1006 Ogden Ave., Lisle. Two of the most influential ...

The Sistine Chapel restoration brought new beauty and wonder to a Renaissance classic. It also brought a chorus of howling ...

The Renaissance master, born 550 years ago, pursued various art forms with astonishing vision and relentless drive.

And we know that Michelangelo made many enemies who would ... That is, until 1957, when the Vatican Museums unearthed from its storage a marble artifact that had been presented to the collection ...

The 14,000-ton, five-century-old dome of St. Peter’s Basilica will debut new lighting this coming Easter to further enhance Michelangelo’s magnificent work. According to Vatican News ...

In 1594, a newly ordained young cardinal, Odoardo Farnese – the recent beneficiary of a tremendous fortune – commissioned the ...

To anyone who has been to the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace, this description will not ring quite true. The price for seeing Michelangelo’s Last Judgment and world-renowned ...

The Sistine Chapel isn't the only place to admire Michelangelo's works. Many tourists feel underwhelmed or disappointed by the popular experience of visiting the Vatican Museums to admire ...

Thursday, March 6, marked the 550th anniversary of the birth of Michelangelo Buonarroti ... nearly seven million tourists streamed into the Vatican, home of his Sistine Ceiling and “Last ...

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