The Vatican may have been home to a series of 16 erotic frescos that were quickly turned into a booklet with accompanying ...

The Sistine Chapel can now be viewed from ... former head of the Vatican museums told Reuters. The last time all the Sistine frescoes were photographed was between 1980 and 1994, during a ...

The Renaissance master, born 550 years ago, pursued various art forms with astonishing vision and relentless drive.

The exhibition will echo Michelangelo’s famed Sistine Chapel frescoes, with gallery walls ... to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. Michelangelo considered himself more ...

The chapel was part of a glorification of the Vatican carried ... The Last Judgement fresco was censored The Last Judgement was painted 25 years after the Sistine Chapel ceiling, by which time ...

Other famous Italian frescoes include Michelangelo's decoration of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, inside the Vatican, and Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper, painted on the wall of the Santa Maria ...

The Italian master destroyed many of his drawings, intended for his eyes only, Muscarelle Museum of Art offers show of 25 ...

To anyone who has been to the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace ... jutting stuccoed rims, fresco panels depicting the birth of Jesus and gracefully curving golden archways ...

The overwhelming grandeur, scope and vision of Michelangelo’s miraculous Sistine Chapel ceiling and “The Last Judgment” frescoes transcend reason and defy human capability. Comprising more ...

Thursday, March 6, the Muscarelle Museum of Art unveiled its new exhibition, “Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine,” to the public. The exhibition celebrates Michelangelo’s famous paintings on the ...

Some work at the Vatican, but most are spread ... In the afternoon, the cardinals walk to the Sistine Chapel-- with its iconic Michelangelo frescoes -- to start the voting process.

If the current pope were to pass away, another would be elected by the Vatican's cardinals to take his place. And either white or black smoke signals from the Sistine Chapel are used to signify ...