The conclave to select the successor to Pope Francis began Wednesday in Vatican City, where cardinals from around the world gathered to take part in the mysterious process that has been used for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a process shrouded in secrecy, the Sacred College of Cardinals is gearing up to elect Pope Francis' successor inside the ...

See more of our coverage in your search results. Michelangelo secretly painted himself onto the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, a scholar of Italian art has sensationally claimed. Adriano Marinazzo, a ...

As the Sistine Chapel closes its doors to prepare for one of the world’s most secretive and symbolically charged events, all eyes are on what happens next inside Michelangelo’s masterpiece as the ...

According to Vatican Museums’ official website, “it is forbidden to take photographs or films with any type of electronic equipment” inside the Sistine Chapel Simona Granati - Corbis/Corbis via Getty; ...

On Aug. 15, 1483, Pope Sixtus IV consecrated the Sistine Chapel to Our Lady of the Assumption. Today, as we celebrate the solemnity of the Assumption of Mary, let’s take a closer look at this historic ...

The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican is one of the greatest artworks of all time. Painted by Michelangelo in the early 1500s, the images were showing the effects of time by the 1980s. We ...

If you haven’t made it yet to New York City’s newest landmark, the nearly $4 billion Santiago Calatrava-designed Oculus at the World Trade Center—it’s the world’s most expensive train station—here’s ...

Can’t make it to Rome this year? Comprised of three 25-pound, two-foot-tall volumes, The Sistine Chapel is the new monumental book set that shows off every single centimeter of the Sistine Chapel in ...