The backstage story or behind-the-scenes view of the creation of art is often as intriguing to audiences as the work itself. We are in awe of the talent that can ...

Michelangelo and Colonna exchanged poems and letters but the chief result of their friendship was the gift to Colonna of two solemn yet spectacular drawings symbolic of their shared faith: the ...

The exhibit opened at the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo on Feb. 24, and includes the Florentine Pietà, also called the Deposition, which Michelangelo worked on from 1547 to 1555, and exact casts ...

The Louvre owns the former oldest-known Michelangelo drawing, depicting two figures after Giotto, from 1490 to 1492. Until Study of Jupiter appeared, this was also the Michelangelo drawing that ...

The corner-turning lines to see Michelangelo's David at the Accademia in Florence or his Sistine Ceiling and Last Judgment at the Vatican Museums in Rome testify to the artist's continuing allure.

Michelangelo’s career was unusually long and complicated. But it can be divided into two halves: the Florentine period until 1534, and the Roman period after. His early work established his fame.