Michelangelo, Radical Architect. The corner-turning lines to see Michelangelo’s David at the Accademia in Florence or his Sistine Ceiling and “Last Judgment” at the Vatican Museums in Rome ...

Curator Adriano Marinazzo, an architect and Michelangelo expert, has organized a show that offers an extremely rare chance to see 25 drawings that were used to plan for the celebrated ceiling and ...

The Architecture of Michelangelo (1986) by James Ackerman “When it first appeared, Ackerman’s book gave the English-speaking world a much-needed overview of one of the lesser-known aspects of ...

Michelangelo, Painter The man who always signed his name “Michelangelo, sculttore”, was also, in spite of himself, a painter. Although Pope Julius II tempted him to Rome with the prospect of a ...

Architects at the time were, on the whole, overconfident that Michelangelo’s celebrated genius had taken every factor into account, never mind that he had died in 1564 having only completed the ...

In “Saving Michelangelo’s Dome: How Three Mathematicians and a Pope Sparked an Architectural Revolution,” Wayne Kalayjian, a civil and structural engineer who lectures at the University of ...

Michelangelo Buonarotti’s 550th birthday came this week, and to mark the occasion, a restoration of the family tombstone in the basilica of Santa Croce in Florence was unveiled.

Michelangelo’s career was unusually long and complicated. But it can be divided into two halves: the Florentine period until 1534, and the Roman period after. His early work established his fame.