A Good Day’s Work” repositions Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses (1860–1961) as a multidimensional force in American art, whose beloved painted recollections of rural life earned her a distinctive ...

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

A newly examined inscription found in Sinai, Egypt may read “This is from Moses,” sparking debate about ancient script.

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 ...

The Moses Ezekiel Statuary Vista Garden, featuring all 11 sculptures, at the Norfolk Botanical Garden Samantha Baskind The Smithsonian took possession of Corcoran’s landmark structure in 1965.

Long before Michelangelo, Sisto commissioned painters such as Botticelli to fresco the two long walls of the chapel: one side told the story of Moses, the other the story of Christ. Moreover, while ...

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.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with art historian Kim Butler about the artwork that adorns the walls of the Sistine Chapel and its significance ahead of the conclave to elect the next pope.

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 ...

By combining the traditional plaster cast copies of famous works such as David and Moses with newly commissioned 3D-modelled facsimilies, SMK reimagine what it means to curate art experiences and how ...