For centuries, visitors to the Sistine Chapel, located in the Vatican Palace, have admired Michelangelo's monumental frescoes without realising that among the 300 figures is a woman with visible ...

The Last Judgment, which arcs above the Sistine Chapel’s altar, dramatically depicts the second coming of Christ and the final judgment of all humanity. Michelangelo squished 300 muscular ...

In what has become an annual tradition that marks the end of the Christmas holiday period at the Vatican, Pope Francis ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis 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 ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis baptized 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 ...

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Art historian and educator Thomas A. Walters examines the symbolic and thematic richness of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel frescoes in his latest book.