The Renaissance artist painted more than 100 figures in the Sistine Chapel ceiling, yet studies for only a handful remain.

The red-chalk image, which currently belongs to an anonymous seller from Northern California, is expected to become the most ...

A five-inch-tall red chalk drawing of a foot, said to be by Michelangelo (1475–1564), will be offered for sale at Christie's ...

The Florentine artist spent four years painting the challenging chapel against his will, but would have much rather been sculpting - Lucas Schifres/Getty Images Contributor Michelangelo never wanted ...

Only a tiny fraction of tourists step inside the gilded halls of Rome’s most exclusive site: the Colonna Palace ...

Every year, millions visit Rome's famous sites, but few enter the exclusive Colonna Palace. This private home-museum, hidden ...

Millions of tourists visit the Colosseum and Sistine Chapel each year, but only a tiny fraction of those masses manage to get ...

Perhaps second only in fame to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Michelangelo's magnificent frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel opened to the public for the first time 500 years ago this week ...

VATICAN CITY — Black smoke streamed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday morning in Rome, signaling that the 133 cardinal electors have not come to a two-thirds agreement about who the ...

Black smoke streamed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday morning in Rome, signaling that the 133 cardinal electors have not come to a two-thirds agreement about who the next pontiff ...