Since talking isn’t allowed in the Sistine Chapel, the guide explained Michelangelo’s frescoes at the beginning of the tour. Our guide had a great sense of humor and a deep knowledge of the ...

Attractions encompass the Sistine Chapel ... Children 6 and younger tour free. Audio guide rentals start at 8 euros (about $8.50) if reserved online in advance (they cost 8 euros at the door).

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 ...

Martha Stewart’s Sistine Chapel photos drew backlash from her fans, with many calling her actions 'disrespectful' and ...

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 your adventures around Vatican City in the early hours of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, you’ll eventually stumble across the Sistine Chapel. Aside from being a very beautiful location ...

Msgr. Massimo Palombella, former director of the Sistine Chapel Choir, is seen at a Vatican news conference in this file photo from 2017. (CNS/Paul Haring) by Catholic News Service ...

fresco on the second span of the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling. Led by Raffaella Bianucci of the Université Paris-Saclay, a team of European researchers leaned on existing guidelines for ...

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 ...