A fleet of marble-sculpting robots is carving out the future of the art world. It's a move some artists see as cheating, but ...

The unvirginal hands of a gay man decorated the walls and ceilings the most famous church in the world: the Sistine Chapel.

In December, art restorer and researcher Sara Penco published a big find: Mary Magdelane is hidden among the 300-plus figures that Michelangelo painted into The Last Judgment mural in the Sistine ...

The Pauline Chapel includes the last frescoes of Michelangelo, painted as an old man after he had finished the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel. The Sistine Chapel takes its name from Pope ...

VATICAN CITY—Cardinal Robert Prevost, seated beneath Michelangelo’s monumental fresco of the Last Judgement, buried his head in his hands as the sound of his name echoed off the walls of the ...

Black smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday, signalling that no pope had been elected as 133 cardinals opened the secretive, centuries-old ritual to choose a new leader of the ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Black smoke is pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave to choose a new leader of the Catholic Church. The ...

133 cardinal electors will take an oath of perpetual secrecy under the gaze of the stern Christ depicted in Michelangelo’s Last Judgement fresco, which adorns the chapel. They will then hold ...

The conclave to elect the next pope begins in Rome on Wednesday. Vatican watchers say the process is more than a simple tussle between conservatives and reformers. The winner will determine the fate ...

Between Michelangelo’s Creation of Man on the ... The brilliant blue background of the Last Judgment is made from paint created using the semi-precious stone lapis lazuli, and it's said that ...

Michelangelo put da Cesena’s face on Minos, a donkey-eared judge of the dead in hell whose genitals are being consumed by a snake. Don’t mess with artists. “The Last Judgment” didn’t ...