ROME — The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the Virgin Mary by Caravaggio, the blockbuster artist who revolutionized the use of ...

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 ...

To see the breadth of Michelangelo’s sculptures, you’d have to travel ... such as the “Pietà” at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, or placed up high in cathedral niches, like four lesser ...

To see the breadth of Michelangelo’s sculptures, you’d have to travel ... such as the “Pietà” at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, or placed up high in cathedral niches, like four lesser ...

Historian and critic Leo Steinberg, who spent decades studying Michelangelo, asserted that if the artist had created the ... one-time director of Rome’s Museo Barracco di Scultura Antica, ...

Michelangelo believed that his interest in sculpture was provoked by his foster ... The famous Pieta was commissioned by the French ambassador to Rome. The commissioner gave only a year to ...