The Renaissance master, born 550 years ago, pursued various art forms with astonishing vision and relentless drive.

Michelangelo Buonarroti wasn’t a great painter, per his own admission, especially compared to his contemporaries and students ...

William & Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art presents an illuminating exhibition of the Renaissance master’s drawings for the ...

The man who always signed his name “Michelangelo, sculttore”, was also, in spite of himself, a painter. Although Pope Julius II tempted him to Rome with the prospect of a huge marble mausoleum ...

The last decades of Michelangelo’s life encompass the “Last Judgment” (1536-41) and two important friendships—with Tommaso de’ Cavalieri (c. 1512-1587), a young Roman nobleman ...

It’s unique to the world. Michelangelo’s “Study of Christ the Judge for the Last Judgement,” on loan from the Cabinet of Drawings and Prints at the Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence.