The Cleveland Museum of Art has acquired the Giambologna sculpture Fata Morgana, a rare marble by the Italian Mannerist ...

Korean drama 'Doubt' and Spanish comedy 'Celeste' were the big winners at the inaugural Italian Global Series Festival's Maximo Awards last night.

Jackson Vogel will serve life in prison for murdering his cellmate at Green Bay Correctional Institution last fall. The judge ...

Sent by his religious order to Hong Kong to share the Gospel in Asia, one Catholic priest's missionary work is raising hell -- but not with the Chinese Communist Party.

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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 ...

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 ...

In “The Last Judgment,” Michelangelo depicted a self-portrait in the skin of flayed St. Bartholomew, to show “he suffered so much, he didn’t like to paint,” he said.

“The Last Judgment” didn’t gain the same universal acclaim as the Sistine ceiling. Some of Michelangelo’s artistic contemporaries were surprised at the lack of balance and harmony in the ...

Michelangelo painted the Last Judgment fresco on the west wall for Pope Paul III between 1534 and 1541. The two gigantic frescoes are considered among the greatest achievements in Western ...