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 ...

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 ...

Michelangelo never wanted to paint the ‘stupid’ Sistine Chapel, a historian has claimed. The Italian artist - who lived a ‘long and miserable’ life - actually ‘loathed’ painting and ...

When visitors first step into the Sistine Chapel and gaze upward, they are struck silent. Above them, Michelangelo's frescoes ...

Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel between 1508 and 1512. The building was built between 1473 and 1481 and is the most famous chapel inside the Vatican, as it is the site of the papal ceremonies.

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

This drama-documentary series offers an account of three of Italy’s monumental artists—Leonardo, Raphael and, as played by ...

At an event sponsored by the Domenico Bartolucci Foundation, Pope Leo XIV said that polyphony is a musical form “full of meaning” for prayer and Christian life.

No monarch ever actually possessed a divine touch (or donkey ears), but historical records indicate at least two men with the name Midas oversaw the Phrygian kingdom during the first millennium BCE.

With more than 20,000 square feet of elaborate frescos adorning its interiors, the Parroquia de San Nicolás de Bari y San Pedro Mártir has been called the Sistine Chapel of Valencia.

The biographical story of Michelangelo's troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II.