The Vatican Museums have only a small section dedicated to modern artists like Giorgio de Chirico and Henri Matisse, and contemporary spiritual art is obviously absent from dioceses across the world.

Vatican To Get Modern Art, God Willing. This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but ...

water – they just don’t mix. The Vatican’s “culture minister,” Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, wants to change that perception and so for the first time the Holy See will have its own ...

Van Gogh’s Pietà (around 1890), Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Vatican Museums. Van Gogh painted this work just months before committing suicide.

The Vatican Museums’ Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art was established in 1973 at the behest of Pope Paul VI to revitalize the disconnected relationship between the Church and ...

VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican Museums on Thursday unveiled the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms, the ...

As one of the world's great treasure houses of art, the Vatican has long acted as if all painters of merit stopped painting and all sculptors stopped sculpting some time during the 17th century.

Other art events for the Jubilee include an exhibition of Modern art at the reopened Museo del Corso, which opened last month and stars Marc Chagall’s White Crucifixion (1938), on loan from the ...

The Vatican Museums encompass a centuries-old collection of art and artifacts, including treasures of Renaissance and Baroque painting and sculpture, as well as modern masterworks by Paul Gauguin ...

In the modern era, beginning with the 16th-century Reformation and escalating with the French Revolution and culminating with Vatican II, church leaders have struggled to adapt to life after ...