Michelangelo remarked of his Venetian colleague, “it was a shame that in Venice they did not learn to draw well.” ...
Charles Dance is to star as Michelangelo in a BBC–PBS docu-drama about the renaissance. Dance is leading Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty, examining how some of the greatest works of art in the ...
Out today from Princeton University Press, William E. Wallace’s Michelangelo & Titian: A Tale of Rivalry and Genius is a gripping, informative piece of nonfiction that holds appeal for both academics ...
The man who always signed his name “Michelangelo, sculttore”, was also, in spite of himself, a painter. Although Pope Julius II tempted him to Rome with the prospect of a huge marble mausoleum, in ...
The Medici and the legacy of Michelangelo in late Renaissance Florence : an introduction / Alan P. Darr -- Michelangelo and the Medici / Cristina Acidini Luchinat -- The Medici grand-ducal family and ...
Tour guides in Florence, Italy, have long claimed that the small outline of a curly-haired man carved into the stone wall of the city’s town hall, known as the Palazzo Vecchio, was covertly chiseled ...
The Victoria & Albert Museum in London claims that a fingerprint from Michelangelo was found on one of his statues. Photo by Stock Montage/Getty Images Experts at a London museum believe they’ve found ...