William & Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art presents an illuminating exhibition of the Renaissance master’s drawings for the Sistine Chapel ceiling and ‘The Last Judgment.’ ...

The overwhelming grandeur, scope and vision of Michelangelo’s miraculous Sistine Chapel ceiling and “The Last ... hand of an artist but from that of a god. Still, we well know that ...

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

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

The sculpture is a triptych, with the central panel (2.3m x 9.28m) being inspired by Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel fresco. The left panel shows Man’s Gifts to God, the right panel shows God ...

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution asked students from Atlanta Public Schools who are taking part in an immersive foreign study experience in France and Spain during their spring break to blog for us ...

but also the reason the church effectively underwrote the veracity of the pagan oracles and that Michelangelo included the sibyls in his Sistine Chapel ceiling paintings. Speaking of the golden ...

Marinazzo found the figure in this drawing mirrors one of the Sistine Chapel’s most famous scenes. “If we rotate the self-portrait, we see Michelangelo is creating the ceiling painting like God is ...

If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not true. There is another who bears witness about me, and I know that ...

Michelangelo painted the famous ceiling in the Sistine Chapel which is awe-inspiring and includes scenes from the Book of Genesis. The magnificent Creation of Adam shows God reaching out to hold ...