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 huge marble mausoleum ...

Throughout the first half of the 19th century, visitors generally agreed Michelangelo himself created it. Çam found in her research that the exceptions were three German scholars who visited ...

Said to have been designed by Michelangelo himself, above, Villa Machiavelli is a piece of history nestled among Tuscany’s rolling hills—and now it can be rented. Getty Images Home to the ...