William & Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art presents an illuminating exhibition of the Renaissance master’s drawings for the Sistine Chapel ceiling and ‘The Last Judgment.’ ...

A rare collection of sketches by Michelangelo, made in preparation for painting the Vatican's Sistine Chapel ceiling, is on display in the United States. The Muscarelle Museum of Art at the ...

Michelangelo never intended to publicly display any of his preparatory drawings. In fact, shortly before his death in 1564, he destroyed most of them. As such, fewer than 50 Sistine Chapel ...

And original drawings by this master artist are coming to Hampton Roads. The recently renovated Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary will debut “Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine.” ...

Michelangelo is wearing a Mediterranean white turban, a sign of the upper-class, meritocratic synthesis of post-Crusade Renaissance Italy. The various experimental sketches of torsos in tension ...

The preparatory sketches here give an idea how he worked out the motion up and down of all those clusters of the saved, the damned, sinners and saints. We see the dragging, the fighting ...

The show brings together some 100 exhibits, including drawings by Michelangelo himself and many works by younger artists under his tutelage, as well as a wealth of his personal correspondence.