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

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 ...

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.

The British painter has dedicated her career to depicting human flesh, especially that of women, with deep empathy.

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

One of the most beautiful paintings in the Art Gallery of NSW is a little panel from the Sienese School attributed to Sano di ...

The Rev. David Tracy, who died on April 29, was a monumental figure in American Catholicism, renowned as a teacher, scholar, ...

(Ad Theologiam Promovendam, 9) One of the best examples of this transdisciplinary approach must be Michelangelo’s cosmic design in The Last Judgment, a fresco covering the entire altar wall of ...

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.

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 ...

Standing before Michelangelo’s vision of heaven and hell in “The Last Judgment,” each cardinal places his hand on the Gospel and swears to carry out that duty “so help me God and these Holy Gospels, ...