Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Sept. 8, 1504, Michelangelo’s towering marble statue of David was unveiled to the public in Florence, Italy. The 17-foot-tall, ...

One of the most famous artists of all time, Renaissance master Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni is known for many things: his decoration of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel (which is currently ...

It’s been half a millennium since Michelangelo finished painting the cavernous Sistine Chapel. Experts are still discovering hidden symbolism throughout his handiwork. Their latest revelation? The ...

In one of the most recognizable and reproduced images ever created, a reclining Adam reaches out for the extended arm of his hovering God, who is enveloped in a crimson robe and surrounded by ...

The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican is one of the greatest artworks of all time. Painted by Michelangelo in the early 1500s, the images were showing the effects of time by the 1980s. We ...

When you’re talking about the greatest artists of all time, a few names come to mind, like da Vinci, van Gogh, Picasso, Britney Spears, and so on. But you might name Michelangelo as the one who reigns ...

Before the Sistine Chapel ceiling, before the David, before any of the masterworks that would make him a legend, a preteen ...

Michelangelo's early painting was attributed to the workshop of Domenico Ghirlandaio for centuries until a cleaning revealed ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

A man was detained in connection with the destruction of a monumental version of ‘Venus of the Rags’ by Michelangelo Pistoletto. City officials pledged the installation will rise again. By Elisabetta ...