Michelangelo secretly painted himself onto the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, a scholar of Italian art has sensationally claimed. Adriano Marinazzo, a curator of special projects at William & Mary ...

The Florentine artist spent four years painting the challenging chapel against his will, but would have much rather been sculpting - Lucas Schifres/Getty Images Contributor Michelangelo never wanted ...

In one of the most recognizable and reproduced images ever created, a reclining Adam reaches out for the extended arm of his hovering God, who is enveloped in a crimson robe and surrounded by ...

Perhaps second only in fame to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Michelangelo's magnificent frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel opened to the public for the first time 500 years ago this week ...

The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican is one of the greatest artworks of all time. Painted by Michelangelo in the early 1500s, the images were showing the effects of time by the 1980s. We ...

Michelangelo may have secretly painted himself onto the ceiling of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel, portraying himself as God with arm outstretched to spark life in a lounging Adam. The theory, if true, ...

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 ...

PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. — A new exhibit in Pigeon Forge lets families see examples of world-famous images painted by Michelangelo on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, for a fraction of the cost of seeing ...