NEW YORK (PIX11) – The Sistine Chapel is making its way to Brooklyn. “Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel The Exhibition” is an ...
The extraordinary is everywhere in the Eternal City, and the best thing about this second Sistine Chapel is that you won’t ...
James Hill for The New York Times The word conclave — from the Latin “with key” — refers to the isolation imposed on the cardinals who are locked inside the Sistine Chapel until a new pope ...
Pope Francis baptised 21 babies in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday under the ceiling frescoed by Michelangelo, in what has become an annual tradition that marks the end of the Christmas holiday ...
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.
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 ...