The enduring impact of Michelangelo’s canon of the heroic male nude, shaped over the course of his career, is hard to overstate and thrilling to watch unfold. The Albertina Museum’s rich ...

Maurizio De Luca, the Vatican's head of paintings restoration ... of Saint Peter and the other Michelangelo fresco in the chapel, the Conversion of Saint Paul. Until then, no one had suspected ...

Pope John Paul II also loved it. But many art critics and historians were not so happy with the result. They said that any restoration work was fundamentally changing the nature of Michelangelo ...

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) painted The Conversion of St. Paul to be paired with Crucifixion of St. Peter and to establish a theme of suffering in the private chapel of Monsignor ...

Yulong said Friday that it will now be now known as Millennium Fine Art Limited. Earlier this week, the company announced an agreement to buy Michelangelo’s Crucifixion painting for $75 million ...

Art historians believe ... Last year Professor Paul Joannides from the University of Cambridge linked the bronzes to a Renaissance drawing by one of Michelangelo’s apprentices (pictured, below).

The only Michelangelo painting in the Western Hemisphere is on display in Fort Worth beginning Saturday. "The Torment of Saint Anthony" is on exhibit as part of the permanent collection at the ...

Paul Gauguin’s painting, Nature morte avec pivoines de chine et mandoline, which hung on the walls of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris for nearly 40 years before it was restituted to heirs of early ...

TONAWANDA, N.Y. (AP) -- Martin Kober is convinced the painting of a dying Jesus that hung above the mantel in his upstate New York childhood home is the work of Michelangelo. Getting experts to ...

House Speaker Paul Ryan weighed in Thursday on a controversial painting hanging in a Capitol Hill tunnel that depicts some police officers as pigs, calling it “disgusting” and “not befitting ...

Yulong said Friday that it will now be now known as Millennium Fine Art Limited. Earlier this week, the company announced an agreement to buy Michelangelo’s Crucifixion painting for $75 million ...