If you're planning a visit to the Vatican Museums, the Sistine Chapel, or St. Peter's Basilica ... But there's one banned item that catches many tourists off guard: umbrellas.

The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo Tourists visiting the chapel don’t get long to wonder at the wall where The Last Judgement is painted or at the ceiling frescoes depicting the ...

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 ...

Michelangelo Buonarroti wasn’t a great painter, per his own admission, especially compared to his contemporaries and students, Caravaggio and Raphael. He want ...

Attractions encompass the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter's Basilica and the ... Children 6 and younger tour free. Audio guide rentals start at 8 euros (about $8.50) if reserved online in advance ...

The Vatican may have been home to a series of 16 erotic frescos that were quickly turned into a booklet with accompanying ...

Part of Michelangelo's work that adorns the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, Italy. Credit: Getty Images It's all in the details. The Sistine Chapel can now be viewed from a whole new ...

Is there anything left to say about the Sistine Chapel? Adriano Marinazzo, the curator of the accompanying exhibition of the same name at the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the college of William ...

Despite his criticism, Vatican City remains a global tourism hotspot ... sculptures and Renaissance masterpieces, while the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling, painted by Michelangelo, is considered ...

The eight-mile wall of art was created by the first humans of the Amazon some 12,500 years ago Prehistoric rock art discovered in Colombia is being hailed as the “Sistine Chapel of the ancients ...