In The Story of Art, EH Gombrich mentions that Michelangelo initially refused the commission for frescoes in the vault. “He ...

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 ...

The Last Judgment, which arcs above the Sistine Chapel’s altar, dramatically depicts the second coming of Christ and the final judgment of all humanity. Michelangelo squished 300 muscular ...

In 1534, Michelangelo Buonarroti left his native Florence for the final time. He had been summoned to Rome to work for Pope Clement VII, and would spend the rest of his life there. He was already ...

Michaelangelo was fortunate in more than his genius. He died just shy of his 89th birthday in an age when life was short. This memorable exhibition covers the three decades he spent in Rome at the ...

Researchers claim to have come across a figure of great importance in Michelangelo’s nearly 500-year-old painting, The Last Judgment. Located on an entire altar wall in the Sistine Chapel in ...