“When you go around the Vatican as a tourist, you are actually brought into the wrong end of the Sistine Chapel,” says Vowles. “You emerge through this tiny doorway at the side of the altar ...

High above the altar in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel, the halo around Jesus Christ's head in Michelangelo's famous frescoes shines with a brighter glow, thanks to a revolutionary new lighting system.

Some of the drawings also detail Michelangelo’s plans for The Last Judgment, a fresco he created on the wall behind the Sistine Chapel’s altar. In addition to the sketches, the exhibition will ...

They approach the altar one by one and say ... The furnaces used to burn ballots are seen in the Sistine Chapel prior to the 2005 conclave that saw Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger elected as Pope ...

Inside the Sistine Chapel, paper ballots are passed out to ... each cardinal -- in order of seniority -- walks to an altar to ceremoniously place his folded ballot into a chalice.

The man who always signed his name “Michelangelo, sculttore”, was also, in spite of himself, a painter. Although Pope Julius II tempted him to Rome with the prospect of a huge marble mausoleum ...

Thursday, March 6, the Muscarelle Museum of Art unveiled its new exhibition, “Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine,” to the public. The exhibition celebrates Michelangelo’s famous paintings on the ...

The exhibition runs through May 28 and features 25 sketches he made while planning designs for his fresco on the ceiling and altar of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. It’s the type of art ...

And either white or black smoke signals from the Sistine Chapel are used to signify different stages in this super-secret election process. But what does each colour of the Sistine Chapel's smoke ...

Contracted to carve figures for the Piccolomini altar and received the commission ... Julius II and asked to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel 1508-1512 In Rome painting the ceiling of ...