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 ...
On March 6, 1475, in the Tuscan town of Caprese, in Italy, a child was born who would become one of history's most celebrated ...
Michelangelo for all his immense fame isn’t the most immediately lovable of artists. People crowd to stare in awe at his iconic statue David and mega-fresco The Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel, ...
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 ...
How would Lovelace’s work have evolved if he had achieved a benchmark such as the Akron exhibition while he was alive? Why did he begin reaching bigger audiences so late in his life? Would his work ...
In addition to making statues with weak ankles, painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and having a crime-fighting, pizza-loving turtle named after him, it turns out that Michelangelo di Lodovico ...
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 ...
On Sept. 8, 1504, Michelangelo’s towering marble statue of David was unveiled to the public in Florence, Italy. The 17-foot-tall, 12,000-pound statue carved from a single block of white Italian ...
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 ...
A partial view of "Streetology," painted by Michelangelo Lovelace in 1999, on view at the Akron Art Museum. Artworks of Cleveland often highlight the skyline or landmarks like the Terminal Tower and ...
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 ...
One cake artist is taking the art of cooking to whole new level by recreating Michelangelo's "The Creation of Adam," in the sweetest way possible. In fact, this project literally takes the cake. Cake ...