As specialists cleaned and studied the rooms in the Apostolic Palace, they learned new information about the Renaissance ...

A remote and neglected masterpiece by Fra Angelico has been restored ahead of the Renaissance legend's major museum show in ...

A military funeral was held on the evening of June 15, 2025, at the new crematorium of the General Cemetery, Borella, to bid farewell to the late General Hamilton Wanasinghe (retd.) VSV USP ndc.

For all its virtues, the center emerged from an urban renewal campaign by Robert Moses, New York’s midcentury planning czar, which steamrolled a largely Black, Afro-Caribbean and Puerto Rican ...

The details, after all, are supposed to be a secret, maybe even to them. The only thing everyone agrees on is they are there, even if, like the Holy Spirit who is supposed to inspire the cardinals ...

Michelangelo, who considered himself more of a sculptor than a painter—and had already tangled with Julius II over the construction of the latter’s tomb—didn’t want to do it.

Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo are two of the world’s most famous artists, having each created multiple masterpieces that pull millions of eager visitors each year to museums. They knew each ...

For all of Robert Moses’ bluster, the fair really was a "summer university." Visitors walk near the Vatican Pavilion at the World's Fair in Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, in June 1965.

Between September 1510 and the summer of 1511, Michelangelo halted work on the Sistine Chapel ceiling due to a dispute over payment for the completed work. In August 1510, Pope Julius II, the new pope ...

The paper has to capture every detail of the perfectly measured ink, so it has to be precise. But the paper must be wet, so as to be more flexible, more loving.” And that’s when magic happens.

Michelangelo knew the human body in ways few other sculptors have, but the details he carved into granite were his attempts to reveal something deeper—the soul, the interior life of human beings.

Michelangelo is coming to Williamsburg: Original works by one of the best artists of all time slated for display 25 Sistine sketches — several never shown in U.S. — go on exhibit Thursday ...