The study by Michelangelo for his Sistine Chapel murals had been passed down through several generations of an anonymous ...

As the papal conclave is set to begin to elect a new pope, the eyes of the world are on the Sistine Chapel, which will hold the Catholic cardinals as they cast their votes for the next leader of the ...

A small red chalk sketch, measuring just five inches, could be one of the greatest artistic revelations of the decade.

The Sistine Chapel in the Vatican owes its name to Pope Sixtus IV (1471-84) who commissioned it. The three-storey brick building was created to serve as a space for meetings of the papal court. It was ...

The cardinals are voting inside the Sistine Chapel, but the seagulls have the high ground. As the world watches the conclave, underway inside the Sistine Chapel, seagulls perched atop the roof, giving ...

The seagulls have caught the public eye on the Vatican's livestream of the papal election for the next pontiff Madison E. Goldberg received her B.S. in Journalism and double minors in publishing and ...

Workers install stove in Sistine Chapel that will produce the white smoke. VATICAN CITY March 6, 2013— -- The Vatican prepared the Sistine Chapel today for the election of a new pope by ...

Metro Detroiters can get a taste of the Vatican next week when a contingent from the pope’s Sistine Chapel Choir performs at Saint John’s Resort in Plymouth. “The Voice of Beauty and the Hand of Grace ...