Art fraud was a common occurrence in the Italian Renaissance. Even a young Michelangelo took part in such a scheme, long ...

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 ...