The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, has unearthed two original works that show the great Renaissance artist inventing the art of the bizarre, says Jonathan Jones ...

Get close. Lean in. No velvet ropes or motion-sensor alarms. No trip to Rome. While most museums don’t want visitors within breathing distance of the art, Galleria Fort Lauderdale’s new exhibit is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researcher Valentina Salerno says she has unearthed unpublished archival documents that reveal a plot to hide Michelangelo's works ...

Michelangelo was one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance, revered for masterpieces like the Sistine Chapel ceiling and the statue of David. But early in his career Michelangelo was involved in ...

Michelangelo Buonarroti, study for ‘The Last Judgement', Black chalk on paper (The Trustees of the British Museum) So a show on the great man’s “last decades” should be enough to stop even the most ...

In The Creation of Adam, Michelangelo’s masterpiece on the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling, God extends a finger to animate the world’s first man with the spark of life. But what if the famed fresco is ...

An outdoor art installation by Italian contemporary artist Michelangelo Pistoletto was destroyed Wednesday after it was set on fire outside Naples’ City Hall. The fire was set around dawn and left ...

Artist Philip Colbert displays his modern reimagining of "The Manchester Madonna" next to the original housed at London's National Gallery. A contemporary artist who crams his canvases full of pop ...

Fitzwilliam Museum reveals research it says proves bronzes are by Renaissance master ...

Fresh documents are shedding light on a long-standing historical mystery. The findings suggest some artworks may have been intentionally stored in a carefully secured space.

Renaissance artist Michelangelo ordered many of his artworks to be hidden by his pupils in a secret room to protect them for posterity, an Italian researcher claimed Wednesday. According to renowned ...