Pope Leo XIV was elected as the Catholic Church's 267th leader on Thursday. The temporary chimney atop the Sistine Chapel released a plume of white smoke on Thursday evening local time, signaling that ...
Step inside the awe-inspiring Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, where Michelangelo’s legendary ceiling frescoes—including The ...
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KOCHI: David Lawrence does not consider himself the ideal Christian. Yet every morning, he slips quietly into the Santa Cruz ...
Experts have identified a small study of a pointed foot made in red chalk as an original drawing by Michelangelo. The Italian Renaissance master sketched the appendage around 1511 or 1512 while ...
A small red chalk sketch, measuring just five inches, could be one of the greatest artistic revelations of the decade. Christie's auction house has confirmed that it is a study by Michelangelo for the ...
The academic world is occasionally disrupted by someone, somewhere, uploading a photograph to an auction house portal. This time—almost absurdly—a jpg of a foot has stopped the presses. An ...
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 ...
The Renaissance artist painted more than 100 figures in the Sistine Chapel ceiling, yet studies for only a handful remain. Could this five-inch drawing at Christie’s be one? Various books and research ...
When Giada Damen, an expert in Christie’s Old Master drawings department, received an unsolicited photograph via the auction house’s “Request an Auction Estimate” online service, she could never have ...