Partly damaged by the catastrophic 1966 flood of the Arno, Michelangelo's Florence tombstone just got a $118,000 restoration.

A show at the Louvre expands our understanding of the Florentine father of Western painting, who brought a revelatory ...

While immuring wives in walls is strictly outlawed (and largely apocryphal), the practice of hiding things behind sheetrock ...

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March 6 is an important date in Italian Renaissance art history as Michelangelo was born 550 years ago and a special ceremony ...

The medieval city of Siena is a treasure trove of Renaissance art, which is the focus of a new exhibition at the National Gallery. Michael Hodges heads to Tuscany to experience the magic for himself ...

With a passion for arguing and a sharp tongue to match his extraordinary genius, Michelangelo was both the enfant prodige and ...

Giorgio Vasari, Descent from the Cross ... “No man who ever lived was more of a translator of life into contemporary, everyday terms by means of masterly drawing,” Sachs wrote of the illustrative ...

Ever since the virulently pro-Florentine 16th-century artist and writer Giorgio Vasari drastically downplayed ... exhibition brings a dark story to life First from the front, which overlooks ...