George Bull’s biography of Michelangelo serves to remind us that even if the commission for the Sistine Chapel had gone to somebody else, the world would still be resounding with praise for the ...

MICHELANGELO is revered as one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance. And as Martha Teichner now shows us, for the next two months you won't have to go to Italy to see some of his finest work: ...

He had a terrible temper. He obsessed over money and social position, but lived in self-imposed squalor. Never a team player, he would neither delegate nor listen to advice. He made enemies and tried ...

A London exhibition shows how the three painters circled one another as rivals and role models in 16th-century Florence. By Emily LaBarge Former owners of the Renaissance artist’s villa want to sell a ...

Before carving “David” or covering the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling in frescoes, Michelangelo Buonarroti painted “The Torment of Saint Anthony.” Created when he was either 12 or 13 years old, it is the ...

Michelangelo was profoundly ill at ease with himself and the world. You can glimpse this heightened degree of psychological agitation by the way he so often treats his materials, wrenching and ...