The simple drawing will be sold alongside a letter written by one of Michelangelo’s descendants. Courtesy Christie's In 1986, a drawing attributed to an associate of Michelangelo was offered up ...

Its the first time the famous sketches have been shared widely with the public. The tour takes people into a small room underneath the chapels, where it's believed Michelangelo went into hiding ...

Former owners of the Renaissance artist’s villa want to sell a sketch once on a kitchen wall. But scholars are divided over whether Michelangelo actually drew it. By Elisabetta Povoledo ...

A drawing by the famed Renaissance master Michelangelo has sold for $201,600 at Christie’s. The auction house expected the drawing, which went under the hammer on April 17, to sell for between $ ...

Five years since experts finally agreed it's a Michelangelo, the sketch is at last up for grabs. Michelangelo, Study of Jupiter (ca. 1490). Courtesy of Dickinson. The British Museum’s Nicholas ...

A small drawing by Michelangelo that went to auction with a seemingly modest estimate for the Renaissance icon between US$6,000 and U$8,000 just sold for US$201,600 in New York on Wednesday.

Before his death in Rome in 1564, Michelangelo burned most of his drawings and sketches. Those his family managed to preserve were bequeathed to "Casa Buonarroti," a museum celebrating the artist ...

A sketch by Michelangelo for the dome of St Peter's Basilica has been discovered in the Vatican archives, the Vatican newspaper says. The red chalk sketch, thought to be the artist's last before his ...

While preparing to fresco the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling, Italian artist Michelangelo created hundreds—possibly thousands—of small sketches to work out the design. He destroyed many of those ...

If you ever wanted to own a Michelangelo, now is your chance. On April 17, Christie’s is auctioning off one of the Italian master’s drawings tagged with the estimate of $6,000 to 8,000—a ...

At first, it was predicted to sell for $6,000 to $8,000, the small drawing, accompanied by a letter from Michelangelo's last direct descendant, exceeded expectations at the New York auction house.

An art historian claims to have discovered a Michelangelo red chalk drawing which could be a preparatory piece for part of the ceiling fresco of the Sistine Chapel (1508-12) in the Vatican.