Victor Coonin, a professor of Italian Renaissance art at Rhodes College, offered one: It doesn't have that Michelangelo je ne sais quoi. The Ludovisi Pan is "a wonderful, delightful statue" but is ...
The Vatican Museums' Laocoön and His Sons is long considered an exemplar of Hellenistic artistry—but what if it was actually ...
William & Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art presents an illuminating exhibition of the Renaissance master’s drawings for the ...
What was to be done with the monumental statue depicting ... watching this rivalry pan out was Raphael. Just 21 years old but ...
Michelangelo's David is among the most famous pieces of Renaissance artwork and remains a well-known symbol of Italy. More than 1.4 million people visit the sculpture annually at Florence's ...
Spent eight months in the quarries of Carrara selecting marble for the tomb 1505-1545 Michelangelo worked on the tomb of Julius II on and off, in both Rome and Florence, carved Moses, the ...