making sure that what happens in the Sistine Chapel stays in the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo, meet James Bond. On Wednesday afternoon, about 133 cardinals under the age of 80 will file into the ...

Michelangelo, meet James Bond. Sign up here. On Wednesday afternoon, about 133 cardinals under the age of 80 will file into the chapel adorned with frescoes painted by the Renaissance master to ...

As per the tradition, cardinals will gather under Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling to elect Francis’s successor. Steeped in centuries-old tradition, the Vatican's process of selecting a ...

While preparing to fresco the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling, Italian artist Michelangelo created hundreds—possibly thousands—of small sketches to work out the design. He destroyed many of those ...

Dozens of drawings Michelangelo made while planning the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel will go on view at the Muscarelle Museum of Art after a monumental feat in networking and logistics by the ...

In something resembling Where’s Waldo for a Renaissance masterpiece, an Italian researcher is confident she has located a depiction of Mary Magdalene in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel.

Researchers have claimed that Christ disciple Mary Magdalene may have been hiding in plain sight in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel masterpiece for nearly 500 years. The sneaky figure’s identity ...

Measuring 45 feet by 40 feet, it was painted onto the whole altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City by Italian artist Michelangelo between 1536 and 1541. The masterpiece shows several ...

New research suggests that Renaissance master artist Michelangelo Buonarroti had etched a woman battling breast cancer into the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel. An international team of experts ...

It’s been half a millennium since Michelangelo finished painting the cavernous Sistine Chapel. Experts are still discovering hidden symbolism throughout his handiwork. Their latest revelation?

Researchers from the University of Paris-Saclay have identified signs of breast cancer in a woman featured in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel masterpiece, 'The Flood'. This includes a deformed ...

Renaissance figure Michelangelo may have depicted a woman suffering from breast cancer in a famous fresco of a biblical flood on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, according to researchers.