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 ...

What Gayford does best is to get up close and personal with an artist, preferably one still living. Over a relatively short, intense period of time he is able to explore the fragile and fleeting act ...

Michelangelo once expressed in one of his poems, "I know I am ugly." Not only was he insecure about his physical and facial appearance, family background, and sexuality, but also had a notorious ...

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 detail from “The Last Judgment,” one of six works featured in Miles J. Unger’s book about Michelangelo. Wikipedia The High Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti’s long life (1475-1564) spanned ...

Michelangelo’s list of magnum opuses includes his most famous amongst the Pietas, “La Madonna Della Pieta” (1498-99), which depicts the body of Jesus in the lap of Mother Mary after the Crucifixion.

Two neurosurgery researchers at Johns Hopkins University say Michelangelo hid something within one of his Sistine Chapel frescoes: an anatomically accurate painting of the human brain. And they found ...

This exclusive extract from Walter Isaacson's latest biography Leonardo da Vinci describes his very public contest with his chief rival, Michelangelo. Read an interview with author Walter Isaacson ...