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 ...
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 ...
For centuries, millions have traveled to Rome to gaze upward in awe at Michelangelo’s breathtaking ceiling inside the Sistine Chapel. Yet for most visitors, the ...
November 1 and 2 mark days of remarkable significance in the annals of global history.In 1512, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was exhibited to the publi ...
All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Il Divino: Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling in VR Step onto Michelangelo’s scaffold to learn about how he painted the ceiling, or enter a Vatican ...
"Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition" continues to Aug. 15 at Oakbrook Center in Oak Brook. The exhibit features life-size photographic reproductions of the frescoes Michelangelo painted on ...
Gary Lucchesi and his production partner James Youner were a central figure in enabling the Sistine Chapel Experience, a ...
Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition, which has been touring the globe for the past six years, opened this weekend in San Antonio. The exhibition shows off 34 near life-size photographic ...
“This is not my art,” was Michelangelo’s succinct response when Pope Julius II asked him to paint a simple, geometric composition with the 12 apostles on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The artist ...
PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. — A new exhibit in Pigeon Forge lets families see examples of world-famous images painted by Michelangelo on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, for a fraction of the cost of seeing ...
Mary Magdalene may have been identified among the 300 tangled figures depicted in Michelangelo’s celebrated Sistine Chapel masterpiece after a centuries-long hunt. Sara Penco, an Italian art restorer, ...