The restorer expertly honoured the "oneness of a work of art" and always balanced its historical and aesthetic qualities

Florence gallery also planning vast exhibition dedicated to the poet in Forlì featuring works by Michelangelo

Plus, the curator Legacy Russell talks about her new book Glitch Feminism

Some academicians argue that instead of cutting almost half of the institution's jobs, it should consider selling the Taddei Tondo—worth several hundred million pounds

Participants worldwide re-created famous works by Vermeer, Munch and Klimt—using everyday household items

Restoration will remove centuries of grime and stabilise the sculpture at the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo

The exhibition, which includes a preliminary drawings for the Sistine Chapel ceiling, will also travel to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles

Three new books offer fresh angles on the Renaissance master

Including Old Masters, Contemporary, Post-Impressionist and Modern, and more

The New York museum's Heavenly Bodies exhibition came first even though curator “never set out to create a hit”

As the Royal Academy in London prepares to open a show uniting the US video artist with Michelangelo, his wife and collaborator discusses her pivotal role in his process

New US owner of former Chinese building-materials business turns to lucrative fractional ownership of art

Pair of nude males, acquired by the family in 1877, last sold at auction in 2002

Volume produced for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition of the artist is "a lasting contribution to scholarship"

The Taddei Tondo has not always been treated as a masterpiece

A shoestring trip to La Serenissima—and a thumbs-up for Simon Schama

Heni Talks: Alison Cole examines the Taddei Tondo—the only marble sculpture by the Italian master in the UK

The major loan show is a double whammy in the quality of the works presented and its popularity

From a divine Renaissance man to Indian Modernists

The National Gallery explores the highs and lows of this prolific partnership