Angelico made the art look so real by using soft and bright pastel colours. The Sistine Madonna is one of the world’s most famous Renaissance paintings. Raphael showed his great creativity by ...

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Historian Alexander Bevilacqua joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the cultural rebirth which came to be known as The Renaissance. When did The Renaissance begin? What was it ...

Michelangelo was just five years old in 1480 when Pope Sixtus IV commissioned the building of the Sistine Chapel. The chapel was part of a glorification of the Vatican carried out by Sixtus.