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Michelangelo was one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance, revered for masterpieces like the Sistine Chapel ceiling and the statue of David. But early in his career Michelangelo was involved in ...

There is an art to rivalry. Mastering its rules has, since ancient times, shaped cultural history over millennia.

Walking into the Scheller Gallery at the Allentown Art Museum, the first thing that crosses your mind is, "Who's that girl?" ...

Known as the first art historian, Giorgio Vasari wrote the legendary book Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. A rarely-seen trove of European drawings spanning 500 years ...

The monumental frescoes in the choir of San Lorenzo in Florence, commissioned in 1546 by Cosimo I de’ Medici, Duke of Florence, were supposed to be the painter Jacopo da Pontormo’s artistic legacy.

In his 1550 volume Lives of the Artists, painter and architect Giorgio Vasari snuck in praise for the Flemish artist Jan van Eyck in his chapter on the Italian painter Antonello da Messina. Vasari ...

“Here is eternal fame!” exclaimed 16th century Artist and Chronicler Giorgio Vasari of Simone Martini, the Sienese painter who lived 200 years before Vasari’s time. What provoked Vasari’s admiration ...

A secret passageway built in 1565 for the ruling Medici family in Florence, Italy, has opened to the public for the first time. The 2,460-foot Corridoio Vasariano connects three landmarks: Palazzo ...