In 1554, the Italian chronicler Giorgio Vasari wrote to Michelangelo entreating the 79-year-old to return to his native Florence from Rome, where the artist had lived for the past four decades. “I ...

The restoration of a statue the artist created for his own tomb shines light on the psychology of the aging Renaissance master. By Elisabetta Povoledo FLORENCE, Italy — Michelangelo was an old man ...

The corner-turning lines to see Michelangelo's David at the Accademia in Florence or his Sistine Ceiling and Last Judgment at the Vatican Museums in Rome testify to the artist's continuing allure. But ...

The Metropolitan Museum’s “Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer” is a stupendous metaphysical-visual exhalation. Somewhere amid the High Renaissance master’s drawings, time and mediums piled up ...

A small wax statue may have brought us closer than ever to Michelangelo, after museum experts found what they believe to be the Renaissance master’s fingerprint – or thumbprint – pressed into the ...