A new study by the University of Paris-Saclay suggests that the scene of ‘The Flood’ in the Sistine Chapel frescoes depicts a ...

A fleet of marble-sculpting robots is carving out the future of the art world. It's a move some artists see as cheating, but ...

Some artists are turning to advanced robots for help sculpting masterpieces, even as others decry robots as cheating that ...

A hidden detail in Michelangelo’s "The Flood" may reveal a woman with breast cancer, adding a shocking twist to the iconic Sistine Chapel masterpiece.

A London exhibition shows how the three painters circled one another as rivals and role models in 16th-century Florence.

There's something eternally fascinating about the art of sculpture, more so when it depicts the human form. Michelangelo, for ...

A team of researchers has spotted signs on a bare-chested woman in the painting on the biblical flood in the Sisten Chapel that appear to show had breast cancer ...

Michelangelo's depiction in "The Flood" suggests ... In 1496, already known as sculptor, he went to Rome, where he carved the 'Pietà' for St Peter's. Back in Florence in 1501 he began work ...

Michelangelo was appalled ... His monumental figures were based on fragments of classical sculptures, and inspired by the perfection and beauty of the ancient world. The frescoes in the Sistine ...

In the hallowed halls of the Sistine Chapel, a subtle and unexpected mystery might be hiding above millions of heads. Experts suggest that Michelangelo, famed for his detailed depictions of the human ...

These include the original decorated bronze Baptistery doors by Pisano and those by Ghiberti which Michelangelo called “the gates of paradise”. Here is also one of his last sculptures, a Pieta made in ...