michelangelo

March 15, 2014
Getting Reacquainted with Michelangelo: Sculpture by Buonarroti in photographs and paintings from the xix century to the present on view at the Accademia Gallery, Florence through 18 May.

December 10, 2013
Two monumental sculptures by Antonio Pio Saracino , installed at the end of November, will be dedicated today by the artist together with representatives from the Italian embassy in Washington and the consulate general in New York.

Two monumental sculptures by Antonio Pio Saracino , installed at the end of November, will be dedicated today by the artist together with representatives from the Italian embassy in Washington and the consulate general in New York.

October 31, 2013
On this day in 1512, Pope Julius II dedicated Michelangelo’s Sistine Ceiling in Rome which shows scenes from Genesis flanked by Old Testament prophets, Roman Sibyls, and the ancestors of Jesus.

October 28, 2013
Architect Emilio De Fabris was born in Florence on this day in 1807.

August 15, 2013
On this day in 1483, Pope Sixtus IV dedicated the Sistine Chapel to the Assumption of the Virgin , celebrated each year on 15 August.

July 24, 2013
Palazzo Farnese Now Offers English Tours

July 8, 2013
Trumpeting a Michelangelo (Cue the Trills of Dissent)