Could Michelangelo have depicted breast cancer in one of his famous frescoes? Every year, millions of visitors flock to the Sistine Chapel to admire the frescoes painted by Michelangelo during the ...

Michelangelo was appalled. He knew nothing about frescoes, and the ceiling spanned more than 3,200 square feet. He was convinced his enemies had recommended him for a job he could never complete.

Other famous Italian frescoes include Michelangelo's decoration of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, inside the Vatican, and Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper, painted on the wall of the Santa Maria ...

Michelangelo for all his immense fame isn’t the most immediately lovable of artists. People crowd to stare in awe at his iconic statue David and mega-fresco The Last Judgement in the Sistine ...

The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo Tourists visiting the chapel don’t get long to wonder at the wall where The Last Judgement is painted or at the ceiling frescoes depicting the ...

On that day the chapel—with Michelangelo's famous frescoes—became transfigured by the sacredness of the Mass, a sacredness that emanated not only from the pope, but from the very frescoes that ...

The Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary will transport visitors to Renaissance Italy and commemorate the 550th ...

In the afternoon, the cardinals walk to the Sistine Chapel-- with its iconic Michelangelo frescoes -- to start the voting process. The vote is held behind closed doors, and its secrecy is closely ...

She said the statue was created by Michelangelo Buonarroti ... newly uncovered frescoes, and what she said were the remains of Julius Caesar's estate "where he romanced Cleopatra." ...

Art historian and educator Thomas A. Walters examines the symbolic and thematic richness of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel frescoes in his latest book.

Scripter Philip Dunne has zeroed in on a four-year span during which the painter labored on the ceiling frescoes for the ... are the artistic arrogance of Michelangelo and equally stubborn mind ...