Michelangelo’s stunning, fresco masterpiece, The Last Judgment, located on the entire altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in the ...

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It has never been about the money for Dave Lewis. The outdoor junkie — and highly-technical stonemason — took a blank slade ...

Sistine Chapel's recent ties to pop culture. Besides the artwork, most people have also become familiar with the Sistine Chapel through fiction thanks to Robert Harris' 2016 hit book-turned-Oscar ...

T he conclave to select the next Pope is starting, and the Sistine Chapel is the room where it happens. As depicted (with some liberties taken) in the Oscar-nominated film Conclave, this historic ...

In fact, this will be only the 26th conclave held inside the Sistine Chapel, and there have been 266 popes. LUCIANO GAGLIANO: The conclave in the past could be organized everywhere, not only Rome ...

VATICAN CITY — Cardinals returned to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday to resume voting for a new pope and crowds flocked back to St. Peter’s Square to await their decision, after the first ...

As specialists cleaned and studied the rooms in the Apostolic Palace, they learned new information about the Renaissance ...

The cardinals are sealed inside the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City for the conclave to elect a new pope — but no winner emerged Wednesday night as black smoke billowed up from the Sistine Chapel ...

Black smoke is pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave to choose a new leader of the Catholic Church. The smoke billowed out ...

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.

The beginning . The project of the Sistine Chapel began in 1473, when a previous building on the site was destroyed, but the wall base and asymmetrical plan of the building remained as it was ...