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.

Following extensive restorations, the Vatican Museums is opening the largest of the Raphael Rooms to the public. Located in ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

A Collection of Modern and Contemporary Religious Art was added in 1973 to the Vatican Museums by Pope Paul VI. Itis held in the Borgia apartment. Among the modern artists represented are Giorgio ...

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 ...

Casting a disapproving eye on the vast roundup of contemporary art at the Venice Biennale (TIME, June 28), the Vatican's newspaper L'Osservatore Romano last week pronounced the whole show an ...