What Gayford does best is to get up close and personal with an artist, preferably one still living. Over a relatively short, intense period of time he is able to explore the fragile and fleeting act ...

Michelangelo once expressed in one of his poems, "I know I am ugly." Not only was he insecure about his physical and facial appearance, family background, and sexuality, but also had a notorious ...

George Bull’s biography of Michelangelo serves to remind us that even if the commission for the Sistine Chapel had gone to somebody else, the world would still be resounding with praise for the ...

Michelangelo’s list of magnum opuses includes his most famous amongst the Pietas, “La Madonna Della Pieta” (1498-99), which depicts the body of Jesus in the lap of Mother Mary after the Crucifixion.