The painting is part of a series of frescoes that cover the walls and ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.

The relic dispayed just above the tomb of St. Peter will be accessible for public viewing until Dec. 8, the solemnity of the ...

The Vatican introduced an anime-style mascot named Luce to represent Catholic pilgrims in the 2025 Jubilee year on Monday, ...

Near Vatican City in Italy, a 2,000-year-old garden that once belonged to a ... An archaeologist at the Special Superintendency for Archaeology, Fine Art, and Landscape named Alessio de Cristofaro ...

The patches on the painting are left behind from past restoration jobs. During a restoration job, patches are added to hide or repair rips in the canvas. In this instance, the old patches are ...

Pope Francis was impressed by the exhibits of a major exhibition of Russian fine art entitled "Pilgrimage of Russian Art: From Dionysius to Malevich" that opened a week ago VATICAN, November 27.

On the one hand, the Vatican’s attempt at seeming young and cool is partly working. A large swath of the internet is voicing their love for the adorable anime character and creating fan art ...

Pietro Lorenzetti’s three-level “Tarlati Altarpiece” from about 1320 in the exhibition “Siena: The Rise of Painting: 1300-1350.” Tempera on wood, it traveled from a church in Arezzo to ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, discussed humanitarian issues linked to the 2-1/2-year-old conflict in Ukraine, his ministry ...

With your skip-the-line tickets, you'll be able to cover the Colosseum, the Roman Forum and the Vatican Museums ... must be at least 16 years old and weigh between 100 and 260 pounds.