His Holiness Pope Frances passed away on Easter Monday aged 88. The Papal Conclave will be held at Sistine Chapel in Vatican.

The Sistine Chapel is one of the Catholic Church's most sacred sites. It was painted by Michelangelo over four years in the High Renaissance style, but ho ...

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It is this Jonah that the following pages address in an attempt to clarify his key role in the “economy” of the Sistine Chapel. As Agnes Crawford writes, the figure of this prophet is the “lynchpin” ...

The new pope will ultimately be selected behind the closed doors of the Sistine Chapel - here is what happens nextThe ...

The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo Tourists visiting the chapel don’t get long to wonder at the wall where The Last Judgement is painted or at the ceiling frescoes depicting the ...

Following death of Pope Francis, attention across globe has shifted to Vatican, where the process of selecting the next ...

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 ...

Pope Francis’s successor will be chosen in an arcane, secretive process known as a conclave, in which cardinals from around ...

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this will allow us to know the state of every centimeter of the chapel as it is today, in 2017," Antonio Paolucci, former head of the Vatican museums told Reuters. The last time all the Sistine ...