Listen up, art history buffs: A Tuscan villa that once belonged to Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti is up for grabs. The 12,916-square-foot home is located on six acres of farmland and is ...

Michelangelo was one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance, revered for masterpieces like the Sistine Chapel ceiling and the statue of David. But early in his career Michelangelo was involved in ...

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, in ...

Our writer sits down with Purdue Art History professor Beth Woodward to explore the under-appreciated nuances of Renaissance art.

Michelangelo’s strokes of genius weren’t all marvelously original — some were downright forgeries. It explains why the Italian master was able to amass a fortune at a young age, said Lynn Catterson, a ...

"Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition" continues to Aug. 15 at Oakbrook Center in Oak Brook. The exhibit features life-size photographic reproductions of the frescoes Michelangelo painted on ...

Tour guides in Florence, Italy, have long claimed that the small outline of a curly-haired man carved into the stone wall of the city’s town hall, known as the Palazzo Vecchio, was covertly chiseled ...

At the King’s Gallery, the museum that is part of Buckingham Palace, Drawing the Italian Renaissance offers a thematic journey through 160 works on paper made across Italy between 1450 and 1600. Ben ...

Among the many things I love about Italy is how the Renaissance can be spliced into your travels. Imagine: In Florence you can sleep in a converted 16th-century monastery that's just a block from ...