New exhibit on Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel at Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg features rarely displayed ...

Michelangelo was appalled ... the Great Flood, and the creation of Adam. His monumental figures were based on fragments of classical sculptures, and inspired by the perfection and beauty of ...

Among them, The Creation of Adam stands out, depicting the poignant moment of God's touch giving life to man. Michelangelo's letters from that period revealed how the extreme physical strain ...

(Bear in mind that some are usually on show in the museum for free; right now it’s the Creation of Adam.) Michaelangelo saw himself chiefly as a sculptor – though there’s no sculpture here ...

VATICAN CITY - Following the death of Pope Francis, the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church will gather at some point next ...

While Michelangelo is said to have created hundreds ... including iconic artworks such as The Creation of Adam and The Fall of Man. Shortly before he died in 1564, the Italian artist destroyed ...

The Sistine Chapel is one of the Catholic Church's most sacred sites. It was painted by Michelangelo over four years in the High Renaissance style, but ho ...

Of the hundreds of drawings Michelangelo is thought to have ... chapel ceiling’s famous central panel depicting the “Creation ...

The overwhelming grandeur, scope and vision of Michelangelo ... Studies for Adam’s arms establish the subtle, twisting contortions and distortions in “The Creation” and “The Expulsion ...