Tour the 467-year old villa Michelangelo in Chianti, bought by the Renaissance master in 1549. Fifteen years before his death — and 37 years after he finished the frescos in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel —  Michelangelo Buonarroti, one of the greatest Italian Renaissance painters and sculptors, purchased a typical Tuscan stone villa in the hillside town of Castellina in … [Read more...]