Dozens of drawings Michelangelo made while planning the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel will go on view at the Muscarelle ...

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 ...

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.

Until the Vatican archives were opened ... It was as if someone else lay there, under Michelangelo’s frescoed ceiling, wearing the pope’s white silk cassock and red ermine-lined cap. Across the Tiber, ...

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

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 ...

to the Swiss guards and gendarmes at the Vatican City gate at Porta Sant’Anna, I was directed to the library, not far from Saint Peter’s Square, the Sistine Chapel, and Michelangelo’s Pietà.

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 ...

Along the tour, you’ll see masterpieces from the Vatican Museums’ collection, including the ancient statue of Laocoön and his sons; the Belvedere Torso, which inspired Michelangelo ...

During the four years he spent painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Michelangelo executed hundreds of preparatory drawings, ...