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 ...

Michelangelo’s youthful deception changed the course of art history. Without that audacious act, he might never have been summoned to Rome, carved the Pietà, or painted the Sistine Chapel.

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, ...

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 ...