The bare chest of a female figure in Michelangelo’s rendition of The Flood “shows features consistent with breast carcinoma,” according to new research.

For his first non-American subject, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns chose Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci.

But it's in New Orleans where Grenier now stands at the top of a scaffolding in the Tivoli Place building bordering Harmony ...

Monday, Nov. 18 and 19, 2024 from 8 - 10 p.m. / PBS app. This is a two-part, four-hour documentary directed by Ken Burns, ...

Leonardo da Vinci vs. Michelangelo (with assists from Machiavelli) in Gary Graves' compelling drama at Berkeley City Club.

The painting is part of a series of frescoes that cover the walls and ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.

An international team of experts has discovered that one of the figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, adorned with Michelangelo's frescoes, depicts the symbol of a disease that affects a ...

Hippolytus and Phaedra also appear in a small painting found elsewhere in the house. Outside of those characters, archaeologists discovered a fresco depicting an embrace between a satyr ...

A show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago challenges the timeworn critics’ contention that painting is dead, expanding the idea of what painting can be. By Jane L. Levere This article is ...

Meller told CNN’s Anna Stewart that Ai-Da’s art highlights society’s relationship to technology and underscores a long tradition of art mirroring societal change. “All the greatest artists ...