The Renaissance rivals Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Raphael vied for the attention of wealthy Italian patrons during the early ...

In Disney’s adaptation of Jilly Cooper ’s Rivals, the romance novelist Lizzie Vereker sits at her typewriter, and imagines a ...

A calculated flaw in perfection. New research suggests that Renaissance master artist Michelangelo Buonarroti had etched a ...

These signs fit eerily well with breast carcinoma, even when considering the Renaissance era's limited medical understanding.

A deep dive into two London shows bringing together key works of the movement, and a spectacular series of tapestries ...

Michelangelo, by contrast ... get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. Sign up Renaissance drawings were generally used as preparatory tools, said Alastair Sooke in The Daily ...

A diverse team of experts is arguing that Michelangelo painted one woman in the Sistine Chapel with breast cancer, for ...

Renaissance artist’s fresco on Sistine Chapel ceiling appears to feature woman with symptoms of disease, researchers claim ...

The man who always signed his name “Michelangelo, sculttore”, was also, in spite of himself, a painter. Although Pope Julius II tempted him to Rome with the prospect of a huge marble mausoleum, in ...

In 1504, three huge figures of the Renaissance era found themselves in Florence, then a city in turmoil. A fascinating new ...

The drawings, sketches and cartoons in this sensational exhibition at the King's Gallery provide a glimpse behind the scenes ...

The Royal Academy's new exhibition spotlights the fierce rivalry and mutual influence between Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci ...