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 artists: Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni. Renowned for ...

The Renaissance master, born 550 years ago, pursued various art forms with astonishing vision and relentless drive.

Michelangelo Pistoletto is an Italian painter ... was considered one of the stars of the Italian art movement Arte Povera. Born on June 25, 1933 in Biella, Italy, he studied art while apprenticing at ...

The slight prissiness of much Renaissance art, born of the need to please the patron, gives way to a raw and haggard intensity. The hammering of this single image as Michelangelo fights to get to ...