Pope Francis has baptised 21 babies in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday under the ceiling frescoed by Michelangelo, in what has become an annual tradition that marks the end of the Christmas holiday perio ...

The Vatican Codex (Codex Vaticanus ... To claim his creation, he carved, “Michelangelo from Florence made this,” onto Mary’s sash. He wasn’t known to leave this kind of signature on ...

Steinberg further notes that “the Vatican’s Master of Ceremonies [Biagio] complained of the nudities in the Sistine Last Judgment even before the fresco was finished.” Michelangelo’s work ...

Michelangelo was just five years old in 1480 when Pope Sixtus IV commissioned the building of the Sistine Chapel. The chapel was part of a glorification of the Vatican carried out by Sixtus.

Renaissance figure Michelangelo may have depicted a woman ... one of a series from the Book of Genesis covering the vault of ...

Eight years before, the limited premier edition of The Szyk Haggadah I created (2006-08) had been donated to the Vatican ...

Vatican City is not only Europe’s smallest country but ... If you enjoy art, you should see Michelangelo's famous La Pietà sculpture which is considered by many to be the most moving piece of ...

The Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary will transport visitors to Renaissance Italy and commemorate the 550th ...

The pontiff personally administered the sacrament of baptism on the infants, who are the children of Vatican employees working at the Holy See. The celebration marks the feast day that recalls Jesus’ ...

Pope Francis baptized 21 infants in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday, continuing an annual tradition marking the end of the Christmas season at the Vatican. Under Michelangelo's iconic frescoes, the ...

In what has become an annual tradition that marks the end of the Christmas holiday period at the Vatican, Pope Francis baptised 21 babies in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday under the ceiling frescoed by ...