Michelangelo

The Best Mothers In Art

Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Mother's Day, Mothers in Art, Cindy Sherman, Michelangelo, Motherhood in Art, Louise Bourgeois, Mothers Day, Van Gogh, Slideexpand, Paintings of Motherhood, Alice Neel, Moms in Art, Art's Best Moms, Happy Mothers Day, Female Artists, Lucian Freud, Arts News

HuffPost Arts would like to officially thank moms everywhere for their countless gifts of strength and inspiration. What better way is there to expres...

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Lent: Music For A Penitential Season

Lorenzo Candelaria | Posted 05.22.2012

As we renew our Lenten resolutions at the midpoint of this season, perhaps we might consider doing so as Pope Paul III did centuries ago -- reflecting on Michelangelo's Last Judgment.

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Happy Birthday, Michelangelo!

Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Michelangelo, Michelangelo's David, Michelangelo Di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, Sistine Chapel, The Renaissance, Video, Renaissance Art, Slidepollajax, Sistine Chapel Ceiling, Arts News

Today we commemorate the prolific artist Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, aka Michelangelo, on what would have been his 537th birthday. Wha...

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Shockblast's God Is Just A Regular Guy

Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Sistine Chapel, God Is Back, Photoshop, God, The Creation, Michelangelo, Christianity, Shockblast, Creation of Adam, Divinity, Slidepollajax, Arts News

When you think of the holy creator, chances are if you've been brought up Christian you imagine a guy with a flowing white beard and white robe spendi...

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Michelangelo's Doubt: A Portrait of the Sculptor as an Experimental Artist

David Galenson | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Giorgio Vasari, Rudolf Wittkower, Michelangelo, William Wallace, Michelangelo Sculpture, Sculpt Marble, Arts News

Michelangelo himself appears to have understood the creative life cycle of the experimental innovator, as he wrote in a poem that "no one has mastery before he is at the end of his art and his life."

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PHOTOS: The 10 Best Paintings Of Jesus Ever

Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Dali, Leonardo, Mantegna, Serrano, Art History, Jesus, Christmas, Michelangelo, Religious Art, Best Jesus in Art, Velazquez, Pontormo, Giotto, Goya, Arts News

Christmas is upon us, and what better way to celebrate then by shuffling through a slideshow of Jesus in all of his many forms? Some are baby, some ar...

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Read More: Marquez, Stephen King, Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick, Raphael, Michelangelo, Gauguin, Best Fiend, Van Gogh, Picasso, Banksy, Warner Herzog, Kinski, Art History, Artist Drama, Robbo, Frenemy, Arts News

Long before middle school girls made 'frenemy' a household term with their three-way phone calls and backhanded insults, Raphael and Michelangelo were...

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A Prelude to Halloween

Jane Chafin | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Pumpkin Carving, Michelangelo, Costumes, Ray Villafane, Halloween, Art, Alexander McQueen, Arts News

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Is It Really A Masterpiece?

AP | CAROLYN THOMPSON | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Controversy, Art History, Forgery, Rome, Renaissance, Michelangelo, Italian Art, Scholarship, New York, Arts News

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A possible 16th-century Michelangelo painting that hung for years in a local family's home is being displayed in Rome as part of...

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Astoria Characters: The Pane-Air Painter

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 12.25.2011

For three decades, Berch and his brushes have been beautifying Astoria, and for three decades, he's stayed pretty much behind the glass.

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SLIDESHOW: Artists Gone Wild

Posted 11.20.2011

Artists are often eccentric; that's part of their appeal. But there's a fine line between eccentricity and hide-your-kids lunacy, and the artists in t...

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Italian Friars Pray Bible Thief Gets The Runs

Posted 10.19.2011

Read More: Michelangelo, Italy, Italian Friars Pray for Diarrhea, San Salvatore Al Monte, Diarrhea, Italian Friars, Tuscany, Montezuma's Revenge, World News

It's often referred to as "Montezuma's revenge," but maybe now it will be known as "Tuscan friars' revenge." An order of Italian friars, angered a...

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Everybody Eats Where? Everybody Shops Where? Everybody Lingers Where? In Richmond Upon Thames, Petersham Nurseries and Petersham House

Mara Gibbs | Posted 09.28.2011

Read More: London, Richmond on Thames, Francesco Boglione, Petersham Nurseries, Gael Boglione, Skye Gyngell, Anoushka Hempel Mick Jagger, George Harrison, Sandro Chia, Damien Hirst, Lucien Freud, Michelangelo, Slidepollajax, Restaurants, Travel News

On my first visit to Petersham Nurseries to eat lunch, I drew comparisons to the famous River Cafe. The visuals and flavors are intoxicating, and more importantly, it doesn't weigh you down and can actually invigorate.

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Highlights This Week: Michelangelo, GIFs & Gitmo

Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Guantanamo Art, Video, Takashi Murakami, Highlights This Week, Ice Cube, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Michelangelo, Sean Connery, Drugs, Ice Cube Rareink, Painting, Arts News

There's never a dull moment here on HuffPost Arts. This week Sean Connery's nude painting made headlines, paintings gave a view within the walls of Gu...

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PHOTO: 'Lost' Michelangelo Found?

The Huffington Post | Travis Korte | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Oxford Dictionary of Art, University of Oxford, Brendan Callaghan, Lucinda Byatt, Lost Painting, Homosexuality, Video, Campion Hall, Tommaso Cavalieri, The Independent, Renaissance, Michelangelo, Antonio Forcellino, Old Masters, Bbc News, Painting, UK Arts, Jesuits, Arts News

How would you react if someone told you there was a Michelangelo in your dormitory? For at least one clergyman at the University of Oxford, the answer...

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Record Breaking Sales At Old Masters Auction

Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Art, Records, Art Auctions, Venice, Thomas Gainsborough, Auction, Michelangelo, Old Masters, Christie's, Painting, George-Stubbs, UK Arts, Sotheby's, Anthony Van Dyck, Bonhams Auction House, Arts News

(Via Mutual Art) Sotheby's and Christie's made headlines this week for record-smashing sales, achieving the second and third-highest Old Master auc...

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Guess The Artist: Answer Revealed!

Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Laurentian Library, Giorgio Vasari, Leonardo, Raphael, Sculpture, Donatello, Renaissance, Design, Michelangelo, Architecture, Stairway, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Painting, Renaissance Art, Guess the Artist, Arts News

Yesterday we showed you the work of art below and asked you to guess the artist who created it. Thousands of you guessed in our poll, but less than 50...

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Guess The Artist

Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: Giorgio Vasari, Leonardo, Raphael, Sculpture, Donatello, Architecture, Design, Renaissance, Michelangelo, Stairway, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Painting, Renaissance Art, Guess the Artist, Arts News

Although this famous artist (after whom one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is named) is better known for his paintings, he was also an architect ...

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10 Famous Destroyed Works Of Art

businessinsider.com | ArtDaily | Posted 07.18.2011

The most impressive works of art often took months or even years to complete. Artists pour their knowledge, creativity and emotions into their proj...

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Billionaire Opens Art Museum: Vanity Project?

npr.org | Weekend Edition Saturday | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Mexico City, Rodin, Pieta, Telcel, Soumaya Museum, James Oles, Michelangelo, Diego Rivera, Carlos Slim, Mexican Art, Arts News

In Mexico City, the world's richest man has just opened a new museum to showcase his extensive European and Mexican art collection. Telecommunications...

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Sistine Chapel Ceiling Recreated With Rubik's Cubes

Telegraph | 2:16PM BST 19 Apr 2011 | Posted 06.22.2011

Read More: Toronto, Cube Works Studio, Sistine Chapel, Art, Church, Sculpture, Renaissance, Masterpiece, Josh Chalom, Michelangelo, Painting, Rubik's Cube, Arts News

The Hand of God took more than 400 hours to make by a dedicated team of 11 puzzle fans. The team had to individually adjust each Rubik's cube by ha...

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The Michelangelo Code

Michael Roth | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Renaissance, Washington Post, Leonard Barkan, Michelangelo, Book Reviews, Artists, Painting, Books News

Leonard Barkan's ingenious, lavishly illustrated study focuses on the artist's "life on paper," the hundreds of sheets that have survived containing drawings, poems, doodles, and "notes to self."

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Time to Say 'No' to 3D

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

I've said it before and I'll say it again: 3D films are a scam. A gimmick. A rip-off. And it's time to stand up and say, "No more."

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Be Warned: You Can't Operate a Vehicle After Watching This Video

Edward Goldman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art, Artists, Art Talk, Edward Goldman, Kcrw, Npr, Michelangelo, Sol Lewitt, Sistine Chapel, Vatican Museum, LA Louver Gallery, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Frank Gehry, Arts News

A good fellow American, and a faithful listener of Art Talk on KCRW, sent me a link to a Vatican website with a 360 degree panorama of the Sistine Chapel. For the next hour, wild horses couldn't have driven me away from the computer screen.

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Artist Breaks World Record with 12,090-Rubik's-Cube Mosaic (PHOTOS)

Keith Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Toronto, Michelangelo, Guiness Book of World Records, Rubik's Cube Art, Nuit Blanche, Eva Longoria, Leonardo Da Vinci, Craigslist, Rubik's Cube, Josh Chalom, Arts News

This week Josh Chalom announced that he'd received the Guinness team's official certification of a new world record for a 29-by-15-foot rendition of Michelangelo's "Hand of God", made entirely of Rubik's cubes.

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