(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 3 - The Vatican has said scaffolding has been erected in the Sistine Chapel for restorers to give ...

People in the Boston area soon won't have to travel to Vatican City to see Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes up close ...

VATICAN CITY -- Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgment,” the imposing fresco of heaven and hell which dominates the Sistine Chapel, is undergoing its first major restoration in three decades, the Vatican ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the papal conclave is set to begin to elect a new pope, the eyes of the world are on the Sistine Chapel, which will hold the Catholic cardinals as they cast their votes for the next leader of the ...

On view through February 5, the newly identified drawing is the first unrecorded study for the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo ...