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The Vatican’s famous Apollo Belvedere —a marble statue of the Greek god of archery, music and dance—is finally back on public display after a five-year restoration.
In the Vatican Museums, an American tourist smashed one ancient Roman sculpture deliberately, then broke another as he tried to flee the scene.
The Vatican Museums unveiled on Tuesday a restoration of one of the crown jewels of their collection, a 2nd century marble sculpture of the Greek god Apollo that has inspired generations of ...
Vandals have beheaded a controversial sculpture featuring the Virgin Mary giving birth to Jesus that had been exhibited in the cathedral in the Austrian city of Linz.
The Vatican has been accused of "working with the US government" to investigate and cover up UFOs - and is being urged to release what they know after the Pope's death.
Vatican Restorers Are Working to Bring a Colossal Roman Sculpture of Hercules Back to Its Golden Glory The conservation work, funded by the Patrons of the Vatican Museums, will cost around $113,588.
The demonstrators glued themselves to the ancient Roman sculpture "Laocoön and His Sons" housed at the Vatican, the activist group Last Generation said in a statement. It was not immediately ...
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 ...
Jesus, Mary and Joseph don't normally appear alongside astronauts or Darth Vader-like figures, but the Vatican has upset some Catholics by bringing them together in its latest nativity scene.
An American tourist has been arrested for smashing up two ancient Roman sculptures after being told he couldn’t see Pope Francis at the Vatican. The man, who hasn’t been named but is in his ...
Climate change protesters glued their hands on the Roman statue of Laocoön and His Sons, one of the masterpieces of the Vatican Museums collection. Photo / AP Italian environmental activists ...