As specialists cleaned and studied the rooms in the Apostolic Palace, they learned new information about the Renaissance ...

In the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo, wanting to show the very moment of the creation of the human being, chose to depict Adam in front of God. The two hold out their hands and their fingers almost ...

Michelangelo, already in his 60s when he painted it, gives us not pious serenity but terrifying truth. Christ stands at the center—not crucified but glorified. No longer only savior, but judge.

Dr. Rocky Ruggiero explores the early part of Michelangelo’s career and his early sculptures. Michelangelo’s fame quickly spread throughout the world, and he became known as the “Divine ...

On the ceiling of the chapel where the cardinals elected Pope Leo XIV is Michelangelo’s kaleidoscopic signifier of a time when Francis’s vision of an inclusive church would have seemed not ...

Black Smoke Billows From Sistine Chapel Chimney As Conclave Enters Day Two A plume of black smoke rose over the crowds thronging St Peter's Square late Wednesday, confirming that the conclave's ...

The conclave to select the next pope has begun after Catholic cardinals from across the world filed into the Sistine Chapel Wednesday before sealing themselves inside.

Inside the Sistine Chapel, each cardinal elector stood before his assigned seat, facing the Book of the Gospels, placed on a lectern in the center of the room.

Millions visit the Sistine Chapel every year - but it has now transformed into a place for the secretive process to elect the successor to Pope Francis.

Pope Julius II hired Michelangelo Buonarroti to paint frescoes onto the Sistine Chapel’s 131-foot by 43-foot ceiling (that’s an area of 5,381 square feet), because the original ceiling, which ...