Step inside the awe-inspiring Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, where Michelangelo’s legendary ceiling frescoes—including The Creation of Adam—unfold above in breathtaking detail, offering a rare and ...

However, a later pontiff, Pope Julius II, commissioned works by Michelangelo, who painted the ceiling and vaults depicting scenes from Genesis, including The Creation of Adam, between 1508 and 1512.

Vatican workers last week hoisted a chimney onto the chapel, which will be used for burning the ballots. Black smoke will tell the outside world no decision has been made, white will announce that ...

VATICAN CITY, April 28 (Reuters) - The cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church will gather on May 7 to elect a new pope in one of the most famous buildings in the world, the Sistine Chapel. Below ...

Inside the Vatican’s High-Tech Plan to Keep Conclave for New Pope Secret. Phone signals in Vatican City will be cut throughout the duration of the conclave, with one small exception. By.

Michelangelo created his Pietà, now held in Saint Peter’s Bascilica in the Vatican, in 1498–99, and it is widely considered the most famous image of the Virgin Mary’s Lamentation. Did ...