Western civilisation’s greatest achievements include the printing press and Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel fresco painting in the Vatican. While genetics and environmental factors suggest that all ...

Pope Francis has baptised 21 babies in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday under the ceiling frescoed by Michelangelo, in what has ...

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

Michelangelo’s stunning, fresco masterpiece, The Last Judgment, located on the entire altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, affords numerous hidden clues and people of significance ...

Steinberg further notes that “the Vatican’s Master of Ceremonies [Biagio] complained of the nudities in the Sistine Last Judgment even before the fresco was finished.” Michelangelo’s work ...

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 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 ...

The Vatican Codex (Codex Vaticanus ... To claim his creation, he carved, “Michelangelo from Florence made this,” onto Mary’s sash. He wasn’t known to leave this kind of signature on ...

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.

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 ...