Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. View of the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, from which the new Pope will present himself for the first time after the conclave.

The Sistine Chapel in Vatican City (via Richard Mortel/Flickr) To celebrate the 500th anniversary of the death of Renaissance artist Raphael, a number of his designed tapestries will return to the ...

Here's your chance to see Michelangelo's famed fresco without every tourist in Rome breathing down your neck. Part of the artwork of Michelangelo that adorns the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel at the ...

Early this morning, white smoke from the Sistine Chapel signalled to the world Cardinal Robert Prevost’s election as Pope Leo XIV. As an Augustinian friar, Prevost spent decades in Peru working with ...

Despite worries about the impact of millions of tourists on Michelangelo's precious frescoes, the Sistine Chapel is opening its doors for the first time to a new kind of tourist to support Pope ...

North Americans who can’t make the trip to Rome now have an opportunity to visit Michelangelo‘s renowned Sistine Chapel in Mexico City. A full-size replica of the 15th century church, best known for ...

For the two short days of the conclave, the eyes of the world were focused on the four forbidding walls of the Sistine Chapel. Dwarfed by the grandeur of St. Peter’s Basilica, the unobtrusive chapel ...

Standing in the chapel last week, I had the feeling that I was seeing something I would never see again: the Sistine Chapel not just as a complete work of art, but as a complete cultural artifact, ...

Five hundred years ago, on Oct. 31, 1512, Pope Julius II led an evening prayer service to inaugurate the Sistine Chapel and Michelangelo's newly finished vault frescoes. But as Pope Benedict XVI on ...

Michelangelo may have secretly painted himself onto the ceiling of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel, portraying himself as God with arm outstretched to spark life in a lounging Adam. The theory, if true, ...

Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown has yet to write a book on the hidden pictures in Michelangelo's artwork, but maybe he can start working on a thriller that takes Robert Langdon on a journey through the ...