In Laurent Binet’s new novel, Michelangelo and others grapple with the fallout from a scandalous painting. If you think ...

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

When it comes to the Renaissance greats, Raphael surely needs no introduction. His huge impact on the course of Western art ...

In the birthplace of Italian sculpture ... the first of his Renaissance marble masterpieces, now installed at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Bruni explained that Michelangelo spent long stretches ...

Recent protests on racial justice have also questioned the portrayal of Jesus as a white man. An art historian explains how ...

It is a lucky artist whose doings are chronicled by his very own Vasari, the sixteenth century Italian who acted as a biographer to Renaissance masters including Raphael and Michelangelo.

Some of the best-known depictions of Christ, from Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper” to Michelangelo ... In the Renaissance, European artists began to combine the icon and the portrait ...

In 1987, Frederick Hartt, an authority on Renaissance sculpture at the University of Virginia, pronounced as genuine a small plaster study for ... professor of Italian Renaissance art at the ...

this landmark exhibition will offer an unparalleled opportunity to delve into the dramatic world of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, the iconic Italian Baroque painter. This spring and summer ...