Dozens of drawings Michelangelo made while planning the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel will go on view at the Muscarelle ...

During the four years he spent painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Michelangelo executed hundreds of preparatory drawings, ...

from sketches and drawings directly on to the plaster, which is quite remarkable and possibly unprecedented.” Prof Catherine Fletcher describes the timeline of the Sistine Chapel – from the ...

The drawing now for sale foreshadows Michelangelo’s most famous works — Pieta, David and the frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. The drawing has now returned to Florence ...

The Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary will transport visitors to Renaissance Italy and commemorate the 550th anniversary of Michelangelo’s birth with “Michelangelo: The ...

Coinciding with the artist's 550th birthday, 'The Genesis of the Sistine' opens on March 6 at the Muscarelle Museum of Art in ...

Drawing on his bitterness and frustration ... the perfection and beauty of the ancient world. The frescoes in the Sistine Chapel were arguably the greatest works of Renaisssance art.

Ice animals that are now extinct are represented in the drawings, including the mastadon ... Researchers are hailing the find as the “Sistine Chapel of the ancients” due to the intricate ...