An outsized history as the seat of the Catholic Church brings with it an incredible collection of art and architecture.

Western civilisation’s greatest achievements include the printing press and Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel fresco painting in the Vatican. While genetics and environmental factors suggest that all ...

Dozens of drawings Michelangelo made while planning the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel will go on view at the Muscarelle ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis baptised 21 babies in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday under the ceiling frescoed by Michelangelo, in what has become an annual tradition that marks the end of the ...

The pontiff personally administered the sacrament of baptism on the infants, who are the children of Vatican employees working at the Holy See. The celebration marks the feast day that recalls ...

During the four years he spent painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Michelangelo executed hundreds of preparatory drawings, ...

The world’s smallest sovereign state has a population of less than 800 and is surrounded by the city of Rome, but the Vatican City has felt the need to toughen punishments for people entering ...

A mural commissioned in 1503 for the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence has been the subject of controversy and debate for more than ...

The 2025 Academy Award nominations came out in January 2025, and I was shocked to see that Conclave, which I consider one of ...