Michelangelo’s artistic masterpiece in the Sistine Chapel broke new ground ... Before the fall, Lev commented, Michelangelo depicted Adam and Eve in the state of grace as “two of his most ...

In a process shrouded in secrecy, the Sacred College of Cardinals is gearing up to elect Pope Francis' successor inside the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel, renowned for its extensive Renaissance art ...

It's a story that almost any Christian would be instantly familiar with. According to the Bible, Adam and Eve were the first man and woman on Earth. Said to be made out of dust and to have lived ...

The Vatican has closed the Sistine Chapel ... Michelangelo's Creation of Adam, showing God's outstretched hand imparting the divine spark of life to the first man. The chapel is named after ...

The Expulsion of Adam and Eve, by Benjamin West ... in the knowledge that man would succumb. Of course, Eve took most of the rap for the fall of man. In his treatise on the apparel of women ...

NPR secured one of the last public tours of the Sistine Chapel before it closes for the ... the creation of Adam in the image of God. FRAYER: And explains the backstory of how one of the most ...

as opposed to Eve disobeying, leading to the fall of mankind. This was an analogy to St. Paul’s statement: “As in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive” (1 Corinthians 15: ...

VATICAN CITY — Red curtains are hung on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica. The Sistine Chapel is furnished with tables, ballots, pens, and vote-counting equipment. The Room of Tears is ...

What an interesting contrast today’s selections give us. Our first reading recounts the Fall of Man: Adam and Eve partake of the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil ...

It has been a gull-orious past two days in Vatican City. Moments before white smoke emerged from the Sistine Chapel chimney on Thursday afternoon, all eyes were on a seagull family, entertaining ...