Perhaps second only in fame to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Michelangelo's magnificent frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel opened to the public for the first time 500 years ago this week ...

A 5-inch chalk sketch of a man’s right foot could fetch at least $2 million after Christie’s auction house linked it to Michelangelo’s ceiling in the Sistine Chapel. The tiny drawing of the bare foot ...

Michelangelo’s fresco of “The Last Judgment,” covering the wall behind the altar of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, is ...

(CNN) — Behind the red-bricked facade and marble friezes of the National Gallery of Denmark, visitors are now able to see nearly all of Michelangelo’s existing sculptures — the “most comprehensive” ...

The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel features one of the world's most famous art pieces painted by Michelangelo in the early 1500s. "CBS Saturday Morning" gets a behind-the-scenes look at how the ...

One of the most famous artists of all time, Renaissance master Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni is known for many things: his decoration of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel (which is currently ...