Globally Acclaimed Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition® Premieres in Columbus

One of the World’s Most Celebrated Masterpieces Comes to Life onNovember 6 at Polaris Fashion PlaceLink to Media Kit COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 28, ...
Artnet

A Michelangelo Drawing Just Sold at Christie’s for $21 Million, the Highest Price Ever Paid for a Work by the Old Master at Auction

A recently discovered drawing by Michelangelo fetched a hammer price of €20 million ($21 million) today at Christie’s Old Masters and 19th-century art sale in Paris. Though the sum falls short of the ...
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Michelangelo hated painting the Sistine Chapel – and never aspired to be a painter to begin with

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, 2026, it blew past the $1.5 million to $2 million it was expected to receive.
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The unexpected connection between Michelangelo and paint by numbers

Discover how Renaissance techniques and Dan Robbins’ invention helped make paint by numbers a worldwide art phenomenon.
Washington Post

The bodies of his work: Michelangelo’s muscular mastery is on display at the Met

NEW YORK — In 1557, the author and art theorist Lodovico Dolce wrote of the great Last Judgment fresco in the Sistine Chapel: "He who sees one single figure by Michelangelo has seen them all." For a ...
National Catholic Register

What Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Teaches Us About God’s Creation, Woman and Man

Michelangelo’s artistic masterpiece in the Sistine Chapel broke new ground in portraying the dynamic creative acts of God, but his work also depicts the combined importance of men and women through ...
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You Can Now Snap Up a Michelangelo Work for Less Than $10,000

If you ever wanted to own a Michelangelo, now is your chance. On April 17, Christie’s is auctioning off one of the Italian master’s drawings tagged with the estimate of $6,000 to 8,000—a steal ...
The New Yorker

The Imperfect Michelangelo

If Michelangelo had been granted his dying wish, none of the hundred and thirty-three drawings currently hanging in “Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman & Designer,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, ...
Forbes

Michelangelo’s Childhood Villa In Florence, Italy, Finds A Buyer

It’s hard to imagine in today’s modern real estate market that an early home of Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo still exists. But it does and recently changed hands in Florence, Italy. The ...
BBC

Michelangelo (1475-1564)

Michelangelo Buonarroti was born on 6 March 1475 in Caprese near Florence (Italy) where his father was the local magistrate. A few weeks after his birth, the family moved to Florence. In 1488, ...
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Michelangelo’s Long-Lost First Known Nude Drawing Sells For Record-Breaking $24.4 Million

An early drawing attributed to Michelangelo that was rediscovered in 2019 after going under the radar for centuries sold for $24.4 million in Paris Tuesday, breaking the previous record for any work ...