On Sept. 8, 1504, Michelangelo’s towering marble statue of David was unveiled to the public in Florence, Italy. The 17-foot-tall, 12,000-pound statue carved from a single block of white Italian ...

The board of the Tallahassee Classical School in Florida last week pressured the principal, Hope Carrasquilla, to resign after three parents of sixth-graders complained that their children had been ...

Okuizumo, Japan, stands paralyzed by an icon of Western art. A 16-foot-high replica of Michelangelo’s triumphant David sculpture was installed in the middle of a public park in the southern Japanese ...

This set off a moral panic that caused the supposed educators of the school’s board to force out its principal, who apparently should’ve notified parents that students were about to be exposed to ...

NEW YORK, NY – Christie’s has announced the sale of a previously unseen drawing by Michelangelo, ‘A Naked Young Man’ (after Masaccio) surrounded by two figures, completed early in his career. This ...

The drawing was found in a copy of Dante's "Divine Comedy." Unknown Florentine artist, A Sculptor at Work, from Cristoforo Landino’s edition of Dante’s Divine Comedy, Florence, 1481. Photo courtesy of ...

Michelangelo's David sculpture is having a moment after an uproar over a Florida school's decision to force the resignation of its principal over complaints about a lesson featuring the Renaissance ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...