The Sistine Chapel can now be viewed from a whole new ... capturing everything from Michaelangelo's frescoes to the building's mosaic floor. Photographers used a 10-metre-high portable scaffold ...

Michelangelo Buonarroti wasn’t a great painter, per his own admission, especially compared to his contemporaries and students ...

William & Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art presents an illuminating exhibition of the Renaissance master’s drawings for the ...

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.

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

Attractions encompass the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican Museums, making this city-state so immense (and notoriously crowded) that guided Vatican tours are highly recommended.

Entering the Sistine Chapel is an exercise in wonder. It is swathed in art, seemingly no expense spared, and there’s barely a soul inside to detract from the visual onslaught. To anyone who has ...

And either white or black smoke signals from the Sistine Chapel are used to signify different stages in this super-secret election process. But what does each colour of the Sistine Chapel's smoke ...