The papal conclave will take place as usual in the hallowed space of the Sistine Chapel. What is the history of this famous ...

Downloads of the 2024 film have surged since the death of Pope Francis—but in the 16th and 17th century, it was etchings that ...

Leonardo and Michelangelo, duking it out for Renaissance commissions, became bitter rivals, but why did their beef begin?

A new film is set to mark the 550th birthday of Michelangelo. Michelangelo: Love and Death will be released in cinemas across the country on May 20, 2025, offering an intimate exploration of the ...

It’s hard to put into words how much we enjoyed visiting Florence at the end of our most recent trip to Italy. Our ...

It would be Michelangelo’s 550th birthday this year… Buon compleanno Michelangelo! It’s the iconic artist’s 550th birthday ...

As per the tradition, cardinals will gather under Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling to elect Francis’s successor. Steeped in centuries-old tradition, the Vatican's process of selecting a ...

measured the building upon his return and found it was exactly two-thirds the size of the Sistine Chapel, so set about making a replica. Rather than painting on wet plaster as Michelangelo did ...

A church in West Sussex is home to a scale replica of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling A church near the West Sussex coast contains an homage to one of Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo's most ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Veronique Plesch, an art professor at Colby ...

When Pope Sixtus IV commissioned the chapel in the late 1400s (hence the name ‘Sistine’), Michelangelo hadn’t fully realised what he was getting himself into. The project would take four years and ...