FLORENCE, Italy — Michelangelo was an old man when he began working on a sculpture he envisioned for an altar for his own tomb: It was of a marble Pietà, depicting Jesus supported by the Virgin ...

The restoration of Michelangelo's famed Pieta dell'Opera del Duomo in Florence has revealed that the single block of marble from which the masterpiece was sculpted was flawed, offering a likely ...

The Sculpture Michelangelo Made for His Own Tomb Is Getting Its First Major Restoration in Italy—See the Powerful Images Here Restorers are making surprising new discoveries along the way.

ROME — A restoration of one of Michelangelo’s sculptures of the Madonna and Christ has uncovered previously unknown details, including the artist’s tool marks, that had been hidden under ...

A group of protesters continues to resist a plan to move a replica of Michelangelo’s Pieta from the now-closed St. Adalbert Church to St. Paul’s Catholic Church, which is about a mile away.

Michelangelo is believed to have signed it after another artist briefly received credit for it. On Sunday, the mission will hold a brief announcement at 4 p.m. and a reception in the gardens.

A sign placed near a brand-new replica sculpture of Michelangelo’s Pietà at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Costa Mesa reads “Please do not touch her.

The spirit of Michelangelo's "Pieta" sculpture is being felt this Easter weekend thousands of miles away from Vatican City - outside a Phoenix charity's dining hall. Skip to content.

Could a painting of Mary holding the body of Jesus that hung for years in an upstate New York family's home really be a 16th century Michelangelo? An Italian art historian thinks so after ...

The Renaissance master carved the Bandini Pieta between 1547 and 1555, when he was nearly 80.