The most ambitious and controversial art-restoration project of the 20th century, the cleaning of Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, is in its eighth year, with five years still to go. All ...

Comparison between a Michelangelo drawing in the margins of a letter and his depiction of God in the "Creation of Adam" (images courtesy Adriano Marinazzo) According to a new theory, Michelangelo may ...

The only thing more overwhelming than the Sistine Chapel’s beauty is its crowdedness. Roughly 25,000 people pass through this small church inside the Vatican Palace every single day, eager to see that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From a young age, Michelangelo prized drawing and sculpture above painting. Ian Nicholson/PA via Getty Images When a ...

In medieval Europe, before the rise of oil paintings, fresco was a popular religious painting technique. Many artworks across Europe, hundreds of years old, utilize this method and constitute an ...

Organizers used state-of-the-art technology to create nearly life-size reproductions of Michelangelo's famed Sistine Chapel frescoes. © Michelangelo’s Sistine ...

Michelangelo, one of the most celebrated figures of the Renaissance, pioneered a life of artistry and innovation. More than 500 years after his birth, the artist’s legacy endures through his acclaimed ...

Francis Bacon has turned 100, and the AARP is beckoning the theoretical girls and boys of the Pictures Generation, but Michelangelo is forever young. With the opening of Michelangelo’s First Painting, ...

Move over, Parthenon: for the next six weeks, the "Athens of the South" also has a (replicated) piece of Vatican City. The touring attraction "Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition" has ...

When a 5-inch-by-4-inch red chalk drawing of a woman's foot by Michelangelo sold at auction for $27.2 million on Feb. 5, it blew past the $1.5 million to $2 million it was expected to receive. Experts ...