Visitors to St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco are getting an intimate look at one of the world's most iconic artistic masterpieces - without having to travel to Rome. The cathedral is currently ...

Patches of calcium lactate have dulled the colors of the famous 16th-century mural, which hasn't been cleaned since 1994.

Michelangelo's "The Last Judgment," the imposing fresco of heaven and hell which dominates the Sistine Chapel, is undergoing its first major restoration in three decades, the Vatican said Monday. The ...

The only thing more overwhelming than the Sistine Chapel’s beauty is its crowdedness. Roughly 25,000 people pass through this small church inside the Vatican Palace every single day, eager to see that ...

Vatican installs jamming devices in Sistine Chapel Cardinals will use renaissance chapel for secret conclave Election of new pope could take days VATICAN CITY, May 6 (Reuters) - Vatican technicians ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From a young age, Michelangelo prized drawing and sculpture above painting. Ian Nicholson/PA via Getty Images When a ...

Tourists who have booked to visit Rome in the coming weeks will experience the city during a rare historical moment. Following the death of Pope Francis on 21 April, a series of religious rituals and ...

We’ve all wanted to yell it at one time or another, but only the master of papal liturgical celebrations gets to do it tomorrow in Latin. With a shout of “extra omnes!” on the afternoon of May 7, ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Black smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday, signalling that no pope had been elected as 133 cardinals opened the secretive, centuries-old ritual to choose a ...

The smallest country in the World, the Vatican City is full of incredible things to do and sites to see. From St. Peter's Square and St. Peter's Basilica, to the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel ...

When Giada Damen, an expert in Christie’s Old Master drawings department, received an unsolicited photograph via the auction house’s “Request an Auction Estimate” online service, she could never have ...