After more than eight years of work, conservators presented the newly restored tombs in Florence this week. The tomb of Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, 1524–34, by Michelangelo Buonarroti, at the ...

FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Just four at a time, visitors soon will be allowed access to a long-hidden space inside Florence's Medici Chapel where delicate charcoal drawings sketched on the walls have been ...

Recently, a team of scientists, conservators, and historians used grime-eating bacteria to tackle the famous sculpture’s century-old stains. Tomb of Giuliano de'Medici in the New Sacristy (Medici ...

The tomb of Lorenzo de’ Medici, Duke of Urbino, in the Medici Chapels. DEA / G. DAGLI ORTI / Contributor / Getty Images Additionally, the restoration team had to choose between several different ...

For about two months in 1530, Michelangelo hid out in a secret chamber beneath the Medici Chapels in Florence’s Basilica di San Lorenzo, seeking refuge from his patrons, the powerful Medici family.

Tourists will soon be able to visit a previously hidden room in Florence's Medici Chapel, where sketches on the walls have been attributed by some experts to Michelangelo. AP It may not be the Sistine ...

Michelangelo often surreptitiously inserted pagan symbols into his works of art, many of them possibly associated with anatomical representations. A new analysis suggests that Michelangelo may have ...

FLORENCE, Italy — Just four at a time, visitors soon will be allowed access to a long-hidden space inside Florence's Medici Chapel where delicate charcoal drawings sketched on the walls have been ...

Just four at a time, visitors soon will be allowed access to a long-hidden space inside Florence’s Medici Chapel where delicate charcoal drawings sketched on the walls have been attributed by some ...