A rare collection of sketches by Michelangelo, made in preparation for painting the Vatican's Sistine Chapel ceiling, is on ...

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.

Michelangelo's iconic Sistine Chapel fresco "The Flood" might depict a woman with breast cancer, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Paris-Saclay. The team identified ...

A new exhibition opening next month at the Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Virginia, explores the Italian Renaissance master's preparations for his famous ceiling frescoes ...

Wednesday, March 6, the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the Martha Wren Briggs Center for the Visual Arts will unveil its new ...

The Sistine Chapel just got a makeover. Vatican officials unveiled new state-of-the-art energy-efficient lighting and air purification systems to protect Michelangelo’s more than 500-year old ...

Attractions encompass the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican Museums, making this city-state so immense (and notoriously crowded) that guided Vatican tours are highly recommended.

The museum, located on the campus of William & Mary, is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday, Sunday from noon to ...

The eight-mile wall of art was created by the first humans of the Amazon some 12,500 years ago Prehistoric rock art discovered in Colombia is being hailed as the “Sistine Chapel of the ancients ...