The restoration of a statue the artist created for his own tomb shines light on the psychology of the aging Renaissance master. By Elisabetta Povoledo FLORENCE, Italy — Michelangelo was an old man ...

Experts are poised to begin the restoration of Michelangelo’s marble Pietà at Florence’s Museo dell’Opera del Duomo in full view of the public, the philanthropic group known as the Friends of Florence ...

The Pietà is the subject of Michelangelo’s only signed sculpture, and an image he returned to for his final, unfinished piece. But what is the significance of this icon of Christian art? On ...

The article examines a painting of the Pietà known around 1865 by Hermann Grimm as an original work of Michelangelo Buonarroti and then disappearing from scientific literature. In the panel the author ...

FLORENCE, Italy — It is admired the world over as an exquisite depiction of maternal grief. But Michelangelo's "Pieta" has overshadowed two other moving sculptures on the same subject by the ...

The Jesus and Mary painting that experts believe might be a genuine Michelangelo worth millions of dollars The unfinished painting of Jesus and Mary has long been in the family of US Air Force ...