Praying hands are a commonplace of European art, but for Zimbabwean artist Portia Zvavahera it’s all about the feet of the prayerful. Constellations of soles ...
Museum staff have shared the history of a rare Italian renaissance painting they managed to save from being sold overseas.
The Ashmolean Museum of the University of Oxford has raised £4.5 million to save an early Renaissance painting by Fra ...
Following the discovery of the statue in Rome in 1489, Pope Julius II requested the Apollo Belvedere to be brought to the Vatican in the early 16th century to be part of a papal collection known ...
The Vatican will organize a concert of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5, to be performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in ...
Every year, millions of visitors flock to the Sistine Chapel to admire the frescoes painted by Michelangelo during the Renaissance. The frescoes on the ceiling of the building depict various scenes ...
Travelers’ videos on TikTok have been going viral for revealing what it’s really like to visit Rome at the moment.
Giorgio Capriotti is one of the Vatican Museums’ art restorers who meticulously ... and even a 17th-century shopping list, a collection of items he described as almost “a small museum of ...
Along the tour, you’ll see masterpieces from the Vatican Museums’ collection, including the ... are passionate about teaching visitors the art of gladiator fighting. If you want to visit ...
inviting visitors on an extraordinary journey through art, history, and spirituality. The Vatican Museums house an extensive collection of masterpieces, spanning centuries and civilizations. You can ...
In 1995, the Vatican published a list of 45 significant ... films” in the categories of Religion, Values and Art. It is a diverse collection, including obviously religious films like “The ...