The ancient world was actually really colorful.

Watch a video showing the conservation of a Michelangelo drawing on loan from Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford, in preparation for the exhibition Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer. Marjorie Shelley, Sherman Fairchild Conservator in Charge o...

Explores the life and times of the great artist and reviews his paintings, sculpture, architecture, drawings, and poems. Follows his work from apprenticeship to the call to Rome by Pope Julius II to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

In this episode we look at three less well known works by Michelangelo, including a Pieta he made for his own tomb, a controversial naked Jesus Christ created when he was just a teenager, and a Bacchus rejected by the man who commissioned it for being too...