Dozens of drawings Michelangelo made while planning the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel will go on view at the Muscarelle ...

The Vatican City is toughening punishments for people entering the place illegally, in light of the expected influx of ...

An outsized history as the seat of the Catholic Church brings with it an incredible collection of art and architecture.

Renaissance figure Michelangelo may have depicted a woman ... one of a series from the Book of Genesis covering the vault of ...

At the basilica, we saw Michelangelo’s Pietà and the guide explained why it’s the only work the artist actually signed. Along the tour, you’ll see masterpieces from the Vatican Museums ...

The pontiff personally administered the sacrament of baptism on the infants, who are the children of Vatican employees working at the Holy See. The celebration marks the feast day that recalls ...

the transcendent spirituality of Michelangelo's paintings and the true meaning of working inside the Vatican. The ancient Romans believed that every place had a genius loci, a guardian deity that ...

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.

to the Swiss guards and gendarmes at the Vatican City gate at Porta Sant’Anna, I was directed to the library, not far from Saint Peter’s Square, the Sistine Chapel, and Michelangelo’s Pietà.

During the four years he spent painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Michelangelo executed hundreds of preparatory drawings, ...