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.

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 ...

His bronze works — smooth-skinned orbs slashed to reveal complex cores — are in public places around the world, including ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Removing Fr. Marko Rupnik's art from public space "is not a Christian response," Paolo Ruffini, prefect of the Vatican's Dicastery for Communication, said at the Catholic Media Conference in Atlanta.

Commemorating 50 years of the Vatican Museums' Modern and Contemporary Art Collection, Pope Francis meets artists in Sistine Chapel. Courtesy Vatican Media. Brian Boucher June 27, 2023 Share Share ...