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 ...

Michelangelo was just five years old in 1480 when Pope Sixtus IV commissioned the building of the Sistine Chapel. The chapel was part of a glorification of the Vatican carried out by Sixtus.

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.

Mary Magdalene may have been identified among the 300 tangled figures depicted in Michelangelo’s celebrated Sistine Chapel masterpiece after a centuries-long hunt. Sara Penco, an Italian art ...

Attractions encompass the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican Museums, making this city-state so immense (and notoriously crowded) that guided Vatican tours are highly recommended.

Renaissance figure Michelangelo may have depicted a woman suffering from breast cancer in a famous fresco of a biblical flood ...