A red chalk sketch for the Sistine ceiling fetched an eye-popping sum at auction, reflecting the artist’s lifelong belief ...

Uncrowned is a new destination for all things MMA, boxing, wrestling, and more, featuring Ariel Helwani. Perhaps second only in fame to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Michelangelo's magnificent ...

A newly opened exhibition in Cambridge offers visitors the chance to get an up‑close look at Michelangelo’s famed Sistine Chapel frescoes and discover fresh perspectives on them — without the expense ...

(The Conversation) — Michelangelo’s fresco of “The Last Judgment,” covering the wall behind the altar of the Sistine Chapel ...

Art lovers in Boston have a fresh reason to look up. "Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition," a touring show ...

The conclave to select the next Pope is starting, and the Sistine Chapel is the room where it happens. As depicted (with some liberties taken) in the Oscar-nominated film Conclave, this historic event ...

In the spring of 1509, just two years after a mapmaker coined the word “America” in honor of the explorer Amerigo Vespucci, a fellow Florentine named Buonarotti was beginning to work on one of the ...

Restoration work on Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgment” is bringing renewed focus to its symbolism, mythological references ...

A previously unknown Michelangelo foot sketch, identified as a study for the Libyan Sibyl on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, sold for $23 million at Christie's. The drawing, inherited and passed down ...

Vatican Sistine Chapel FILE - A visitor kneels in front of the Last Judgement fresco by the Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo inside the Sistine Chapel in Rome ...

VATICAN CITY(AP) — Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgment,” the imposing fresco of heaven and hell which dominates the Sistine Chapel, is undergoing its first major restoration in three decades, the ...