Italy’s Eternal City might be known for bringing history alive but it turns out it’s also quite affordable for a city break – ...

Michelangelo was the archetypal Renaissance man who found immense fame in his lifetime and is still remembered as one of the ...

Visitors holding umbrellas featuring Michelangelo's frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican stand ...

Raphael is considered one of the greatest painters of the Renaissance. His masterful technique and untimely death have ...

Francis, who lost part of a lung to a respiratory infection in his youth and has been plagued by ailing health recently, last ...

D uring the four years he spent painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Michelangelo executed hundreds of preparatory drawings, only 50 of which survive today. In March, a rare roundup of these ...

A couple of hours before I join Trafalgar Tours’ seven-day Italian Holiday, I meet an older American woman on the edge of ...

Most primary school children will learn about Ancient Rome at some point in the ... there’s so much to look at on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel that it’s enough to render even the most ...

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 ...

The film’s 40-day shoot was split about evenly between locations dotted around Rome and a set built in the city’s famous Cinecitta Studios, which housed the production’s Sistine Chapel ...