She said the statue was created by Michelangelo Buonarroti, the Renaissance master who painted the Sistine Chapel and etched David out of marble before his 1564 death. She learned this from her ...

But my pick occurs in the opening gallery, and centres on the only marble sculpture by Michelangelo in this country: an unfinished circular relief (or “tondo”, in Italian), which, since 1830 ...

A new exhibition at Buckingham Palace features over 150 Renaissance drawings by masters like Raphael, Michelangelo, and ...

Michelangelo's David is among the most famous pieces of Renaissance artwork and remains a well-known symbol of Italy. More than 1.4 million people visit the sculpture annually at Florence's ...

It's a classical school, he said, so students see nude images in Renaissance art, including Michelangelo's 16th-century sculpture of David, every year. The problem this time was that the ...

Sadly, those great 19th-century novelists weren’t around during the Renaissance ... cost five times as much as Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel paintings, and they inspired Bernard van Orley ...

Dozens of drawings Michelangelo made while planning the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel will go on view at the Muscarelle ...

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 ...

Michelangelo Pistoletto is an Italian painter ... He rose to international prominence with his sculpture series Minus Objects (1966), which includes a set of columns and a two-dimensional table and ...

Plaster cast after Michelangelo Buonarroti ... in due course influencing the Renaissance masters and Western culture at large. Not only would ideas spread far via reproduction, but otherwise ...