With the Holy Year 2025 beginning on Christmas Eve, the Vatican's 2024 Christmas stamps feature the Jubilee message of hope ...

Giorgio Capriotti is one of the Vatican Museums’ art restorers who meticulously worked ... holding up the throne of St. Peter with gilded angels high above the petrine throne surrounding the ...

New research suggests that Renaissance master artist Michelangelo Buonarroti had etched a woman battling breast cancer into ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Visitors to Rome will have the opportunity to experience St. Peter’s Basilica in a new way as part of an ...

The Ashmolean Museum of the University of Oxford has raised £4.5 million to save an early Renaissance painting by Fra ...

Luce is accompanied by her loyal companions—the dog “Santino,” the dove “Aura” and the angel ... Christ,” a painting that will be temporarily on loan from the Vatican Museums ...

T he Vatican's new anime girl mascot, Luce, is taking the world by storm. It's no secret that anime has had a dramatic impact ...

Novelist Dan Brown has peered often into the behind-the-scenes world of Roman Catholicism, including with “The Da Vinci Code” ...

The display is organized in cooperation with Vatican Museums with icons in their collection. Two art exhibitions are also slated to open in the run-up to the Year of Jubilee. Two artists will be ...

But it also holds the distinction of being the only horror film recommended by the Vatican. In 1995 ... in the categories of Religion, Values and Art. It is a diverse collection, including ...

Inside this church near Piazza Navona are three of the baroque artist's works, including the "The Calling of St. Matthew" (one of his most famous paintings), "Saint Matthew and the Angel" and "The ...

With the Holy Year 2025 beginning on Christmas Eve, the Vatican's 2024 Christmas stamps feature the Jubilee message of hope ...