She said the statue was created by Michelangelo Buonarroti, the Renaissance master who painted the Sistine Chapel and etched David out of marble before his 1564 death. She learned this from her ...

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 ...

Michelangelo's David is among the most famous pieces of Renaissance artwork and remains a well-known symbol of Italy. More than 1.4 million people visit the sculpture annually at Florence's ...

At the turn of the 16th century, Florence was the scene for "what may have been the ultimate clash of the titans of Western ...

Michelangelo Pistoletto is an Italian painter ... He rose to international prominence with his sculpture series Minus Objects (1966), which includes a set of columns and a two-dimensional table and ...

Since the 1980s, the city’s symbol has been a golden shadow of Michelangelo’s David. The iconic Italian Renaissance statue currently stands at the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence ...

Michelangelo had a slightly static start, still evident in his statue of the Bruges Madonna, and lingering in the academic stiltedness of his Battle of Cascina bathers. Yet the energy he generates ...