The Renaissance master, born 550 years ago, pursued various art forms with astonishing vision and relentless drive.

William & Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art presents an illuminating exhibition of the Renaissance master’s drawings for the ...

Standing tall under a glass ceiling and bathed in the bright springtime light, Michelangelo’s most famous subject casts a strong figure. There’s motion in David’s pose and an exaggerated humanity in ...

The Vatican Museums' Laocoön and His Sons is long considered an exemplar of Hellenistic artistry—but what if it was actually ...

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

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Of the hundreds of drawings Michelangelo is thought to have created while honing his design for the Sistine Chapel ceiling, fewer than 50 survive today. He burned most of them shortly before he died.

Rome’s National Gallery of Ancient Art at Palazzo Barberini offers an astonishing survey of the painter, featuring ...