Michelangelo’s authorship was further bolstered by the Italian scholar Giorgio Bonsanti’s writing on the subject in 2018. “When we first announced the painting, we didn’t have that evidence.

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

Reunited for the first time are three separated drawings ... Fresh curatorial discoveries convincingly assert that Michelangelo, while painting the chapel, was still contemplating Pope Julius ...

During the four years he spent painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Michelangelo executed hundreds ... including one believed to be the artist’s first iteration of the ceiling.

Now, experts have discovered Michelangelo’s attention to anatomical detail may have captured centuries-old cases of breast cancer. “In the second span of the vault, the first pictorial scene w ...

Another very famous sonnet in the exhibition, also likely sent to Giovanni da Pistoia, contains a self-portrait of Michelangelo painting the ceiling. The show marks the first time these two ...