European monarchs and religious entities had a penchant for erecting massively elaborate and intricately beautiful monuments ...

“In my view, Michelangelo subtly integrated elements of this tomb project into the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes, particularly within the painted architecture,” writes Marinazzo. In Art on ...

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

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 ...

The impressive dome ceiling in Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica in Rome.Credit: Getty Images However, the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel is not the only one in Rome. And the one inside the Basilica ...

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 ...