Michelangelo ... prospect-derailing portrait triggers ducal panic and the deployment of the city-state’s best investigative resources: a bevy of squabbling late-Renaissance artists, led by ...

With its implication that the young woman isn’t as chaste as she should be, the marriage-prospect-derailing portrait triggers ducal panic and the deployment of the city-state’s best investigative ...

New exhibit on Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel at Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg features rarely displayed ...

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 this image appeared and came to be marketed worldwide.

When it comes to the Renaissance greats ... alongside Leonardo and Michelangelo, of the ultimate trio that ruled the art scene of 16th-century Florence. Today marks 505 years since the Old ...

Nuns hold a portrait of the late Pope Francis at the ... She is due to fly to Italy Wednesday for his funeral. Like many, she recalled Francis as strong in speaking his mind, especially on behalf ...

Pope Francis ’ funeral has been set for Saturday at 10 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square, and a viewing of his body will begin on ...

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 ...