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The Vatican Museums on Thursday unveiled the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms, the spectacularly ...

Masterpiece’ is a lexical term today, which connotes ‘a great work of Art of any genre’ in the world. At times in common practice, when presenting a work of Art, notwithstanding the absence of its ...

Pope Leo XIV, right, stands in the Sistine Chapel among cardinals after being elected at the Vatican on May 8, 2025. He became the first American pope in history.

A Sussex chapel is home to the world’s only known replica of the Sistine Chapel ceiling - and is described as being “better” than the real… ...

The 133 cardinals will remain in total seclusion within the Sistine Chapel and its adjoining buildings until they choose from among themselves the next pope.

"Notice is hereby given that the Sistine Chapel will be closed to the public from Monday 28 April 2025 for the requirements of the Conclave," reads a statement on the Vatican Museums' website.

The Sistine Chapel is open to the public as part of the Vatican Museums. However, most of the Vatican Museums, including the Sistine Chapel, are closed for Conclave beginning on Monday, April 28 ...

Michelangelo’s The Last Judgment, one section of his Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes. Universal History Archive - Getty Images Pope Julius II hired Michelangelo Buonarroti to paint frescoes onto the ...

White smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel and the bells of St Peter's Basilica rang out on March 13, 2013, signaling that Roman Catholic Cardinals had ended their conclave and elected a new leader ...

FILE – Tables and chairs line the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican in preparation for the conclave, on April 16, 2005. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito, File) But the church is at the same time turning ...