Michelangelo’s famous frescoes at the Sistine Chapel were originally met with scorn, concern, and controversy.

The Florentine artist spent four years painting the challenging chapel against his will, but would have much rather been sculpting - Lucas Schifres/Getty Images Contributor Michelangelo never wanted ...

After an extensive investigation, the five-inch-tall sketch is heading to auction, where it's predicted to sell for up to $2 ...

It’s been half a millennium since Michelangelo finished painting the cavernous Sistine Chapel. Experts are still discovering hidden symbolism throughout his handiwork. Their latest revelation? The ...

A calculated flaw in perfection. New research suggests that Renaissance master artist Michelangelo Buonarroti had etched a woman battling breast cancer into the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel. An ...

Renaissance figure Michelangelo may have depicted a woman suffering from breast cancer in a famous fresco of a biblical flood on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, according to researchers. The team ...

Perhaps second only in fame to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Michelangelo's magnificent frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel opened to the public for the first time 500 years ago this week ...

Presenting Sponsor Ascension Seton is thrilled to announce the premier and grand opening of The Sistine Chapel Experience, a digital recreation of one of the world's most extraordinary cultural ...

A man from the US West Coast reached out to Christie's to understand the value of an inherited drawing; turns out it was a study by Michelangelo.

On March 6, 1475, in the Tuscan town of Caprese, in Italy, a child was born who would become one of history's most celebrated ...

A California man discovered that a sketch inherited from his grandmother is an authentic Michelangelo drawing, confirmed ...