Until this century, wet straw was added to the stove to create the smoke’s white color ... decorated by Michelangelo that is a landmark of Western art and his powerful “Last Judgment ...

Latest news and live updates as the election process for the next pope continues. The cardinals met for their first conclave ...

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 ...

With Michelangelo’s majestic Last Judgment and other biblical frescoes ... will be signaled to the world not by words, but by the color of smoke rising from a chimney. The word conclave comes ...

when you walk into that Sistine Chapel and you swear an oath on the Book of the Gospels while looking at Michelangelo's fresco of the Last Judgment and Christ returning in glory, and he does not ...

Wearing white vestments, Leo proceeded into the Sistine Chapel and blessed the cardinals as he approached the altar and Michelangelo's The Last Judgment behind it. It was in the same frescoed ...

“It is here, at the feet of this marvelous Sistine profusion of color ... once more Michelangelo wraps them in his vision.” That vision, he wrote, begins with the “creating hand” of God giving life to ...

The chapel is the highlight of most tours of the Vatican Museums and close to 7 million people visit each year, especially to see the ceiling Michelangelo painted between 1508 and 1512 and the massive ...

And once more Michelangelo wraps them in his vision.” That vision, he wrote, begins with the “creating hand” of God giving life to Adam and ends with the Last Judgment. But it also includes ...