Charles Dance is to star as Michelangelo in a BBC–PBS docu-drama about the renaissance. Dance is leading Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty, examining how some of the greatest works of art in the ...

The Victoria & Albert Museum in London claims that a fingerprint from Michelangelo was found on one of his statues. Photo by Stock Montage/Getty Images Experts at a London museum believe they’ve found ...

Tour guides in Florence, Italy, have long claimed that the small outline of a curly-haired man carved into the stone wall of the city’s town hall, known as the Palazzo Vecchio, was covertly chiseled ...

The 1.8- by 2.6-inch sketch by Michelangelo and an accompanying letter from his descendant, Cosimo Buonarroti Christie's In the early 16th century, the Renaissance master Michelangelo drew a simple ...

A small wax statue may have brought us closer than ever to Michelangelo, after museum experts found what they believe to be the Renaissance master’s fingerprint – or thumbprint – pressed into the ...

The Medici and the legacy of Michelangelo in late Renaissance Florence : an introduction / Alan P. Darr -- Michelangelo and the Medici / Cristina Acidini Luchinat -- The Medici grand-ducal family and ...

In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly ...

When a 5-inch-by-4-inch red chalk drawing of a woman’s foot by Michelangelo sold at auction for US$27.2 million on Feb. 5, ...