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. It was ...

A rare and previously unknown sketch by Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo has gone on public display in Dubai this week ...

The Florentine artist spent four years painting the challenging chapel against his will, but would have much rather been sculpting - Lucas Schifres/Getty Images Contributor Michelangelo never wanted ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I., Oct. 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition®, the renowned touring exhibition that has welcomed over 3 million visitors worldwide , makes its ...

Pope Leo XIV baptized 20 babies in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday beneath Michelangelo’s frescoed ceiling, continuing an annual ...

The Sistine Chapel Choir performs a Christmas Concert in the presence of Pope Leo, who recalls the angels of Bethlehem and ...

Vatican installs jamming devices in Sistine Chapel Cardinals will use renaissance chapel for secret conclave Election of new pope could take days VATICAN CITY, May 6 (Reuters) - Vatican technicians ...

Perhaps second only in fame to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Michelangelo's magnificent frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel opened to the public for the first time 500 years ago this week ...

Pope Leo XIV baptized 20 babies in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday, marking his first baptismal ceremony as pontiff and continuing a long-standing Vatican tradition that concludes the Christmas season.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Vatican technicians are securing what on Wednesday will arguably become the world's most beautiful bunker, making sure that what happens in the Sistine Chapel stays in the ...