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“When you go around the Vatican as a tourist, you are actually brought into the wrong end of the Sistine Chapel,” says Vowles. “You emerge through this tiny doorway at the side of the altar ...

A man climbed onto the high altar of St Peter’s Basilica and hurled ... was detained and questioned by the Vatican Gendarmerie and Vatican Inspectorate. Matteo Bruni, director of the Vatican ...

Michelangelo’s stunning, fresco masterpiece, The Last Judgment, located on the entire altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, affords numerous hidden clues and people of significance ...

Security staff at the Vatican have apprehended a man after he jumped on to the main altar in St Peter’s Basilica and damaged some candelabra. The incident, which took place on 7 February ...

Dozens of drawings Michelangelo made while planning the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel will go on view at the Muscarelle ...

Attractions encompass the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican Museums, making this city-state so immense (and notoriously crowded) that guided Vatican tours are highly recommended.

The Sistine Chapel just got a makeover. Vatican officials unveiled new state-of-the-art energy-efficient lighting and air purification systems to protect Michelangelo’s more than 500-year old ...

Michelangelo was the archetypal Renaissance man who found immense fame in his lifetime and is still remembered as one of the ...

Pope Francis is set to feature in a documentary filmed in the Sistine Chapel about the universal ... private library of the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City, they said in a statement.

It was 25 years after he completed the Sistine Chapel ceiling that Michelangelo began working on The Last Judgment, a fresco that covers the entire altar wall of the Vatican City landmark.