Over the past 20 years, French-born painter Philippe Casanova has been enriching the Roman cultural and artistic landscape with his original contemporary Baroque creations.

Paolo Ruffini, 67, prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Communication, defended the official use of art by the accused serial rapist at the annual meeting of the Catholic Media Association in Atlanta.

Following extensive restorations, the Vatican Museums is opening the largest of the Raphael Rooms to the public. Located in the Apostolic Palace, the pope’s official residence, the rooms were painted ...

In Italian baroque painting, for the first time ever in Western art, the Establishment came up with an officially "right" way to paint a picture, then did its best to stifle opposition -- and a ...

Bubbly Baroque art and austere Neoclassicism; divine kings, Revolution, and Napoleon. In the 1600s and 1700s, the art of "divine" kings and popes — and of revolutionaries and Reformers — tells ...

As an art history graduate, I can fully appreciate the importance of the work (after all, my favorite 20 th-century painter, Francis Bacon, created a number of works based on it).

Vatican City, Mar 11, 2008 / 08:42 am "'Magnificenze Vaticane' Masterpieces of Art from the Collections of the Fabric of St. Peter's" is an exhibition due to be inaugurated this afternoon at ...

Item 1 of 3 General view of a detail of the baroque sculpted bronze canopy by Gian Lorenzo Bernini over the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica as it undergoes restoration at the Vatican, October 8 ...

The cardinal, prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, presented some of the Vatican's contemporary art projects for the Holy Year 2025 and explained the choice to begin in Rome's Rebibbia ...

The Vatican on Monday unveiled its groundbreaking project for the upcoming Venice Biennale of Art: A multimedia installation located inside Venice's women's prison, created with the active ...

When members of the Society of Jesus gather at Borgo Santo Spirito, their headquarters near the Vatican, they worship surrounded by the relics of Jesuit saints and works of sacred art. This ...