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

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 ...

It took him four years. Michelangelo later received a commission from Pope Clement VII to paint the wall behind the altar with a rendering of the Last Judgment. In his biography of Michelangelo ...

Pope Leo XIV, right, stands in the Sistine Chapel among cardinals after being elected at the Vatican on May 8, 2025. He ...

As the celebrated Iranian director returns home, armed with more international recognition than ever before, here is looking ...

Cardinal Prevost overtook the favorite, Italian Cardinal Parolin, during a historic conclave.

One of Michelangelo’s most famous paintings was part of his work on the decoration of the Sistine Chapel. The Last Judgment, however, was placed not on the ceiling but on the altar wall.

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 ...

Seated at rows of tables beneath the gaze of Michelangelo’s powerful image of the Last Judgment, before any further discussions or the expected first casting of votes (called the “scrutio ...