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 ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with art historian Kim Butler about the artwork that adorns the walls of the Sistine Chapel and its significance ahead of the conclave to elect the next pope.

Sistine Chapel exhibition brings heavenly Michelangelo masterpiece down to Earth ... which covers the entire altar wall of the chapel and was begun some 25 years after the ceiling was completed. ...

White smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel and the bells of St Peter's Basilica rang out on March 13, 2013, signaling that Roman Catholic Cardinals had ended their conclave and elected a new leader ...

Visitors to the Sistine Chapel get a Spiritual Cleaning. Published Mar 11, 2013 at 4:45 AM EDT Updated Mar 10, ... and his haunting rendition of the Last Judgment on the chapel's altar wall.

The Sistine Chapel restoration brought new beauty and wonder to a Renaissance ... He later returned to paint The Last Judgment fresco on the altar wall in 1541 for the unfortunate Pope Clement ...

The Sistine Chapel Gets Its Own High-Tech Spectacle, ... And then, over 20 years later, Pope Clement VII called him back to paint the grandiose Last Judgment above the chapel altar.

High above the altar in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo’s masterpiece fresco is being seen in a new light. The new vision is the result of a high-tech makeover that includes a new ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday began the secretive, centuries-old ritual to elect a successor to Pope ...

White smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel and the bells of St Peter's Basilica rang out on March 13, 2013, signaling that Roman Catholic Cardinals had ended their conclave and elected a new leader ...