She said the statue was created by Michelangelo Buonarroti, the Renaissance master who painted the Sistine Chapel and etched David out of marble before his 1564 death. She learned this from her ...

The Vatican’s famous Apollo Belvedere—a marble statue of the Greek ... artist Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli, one of Michelangelo’s pupils, replaced the statue’s broken arms and added the ...

Behind the red-bricked facade and marble friezes of the National Gallery ... Though it’s not the first time a Michelangelo sculpture has been 3D printed — the University of Florence unveiled ...

Yet what we gazed upon is a far cry from the three-story ziggurat festooned with 40 marble statues that Michelangelo planned to carve himself and imagined as an eighth wonder of the world.

In 1501, Michelangelo accepted the challenge of sculpting a colossal statue for Florence from a neglected block of marble.

Michelangelo, who had just completed his ... beginning with the Taddei Tondo (circa 1504-5), Michaelangelo’s only marble sculpture in the United Kingdom. Commissioned by art patron and cloth ...