Vatican fashion: Rome’s tailors abuzz over prospect of new pope As Rome’s tailors stitch new garments for clergymen, observers say what a pope wears could provide hints about his vision.

All the protagonists of the Farnese family who contributed to the birth and enrichment of the precious Collection during the Roman period are brought together with their portraits in the next room, ...

Fashion may not be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about papal legacies, but Pope Francis’ understated style set him apart from previous popes and endeared him to a younger ...

As news of the pope’s death traveled across the globe, observers fondly remembered a man who bought his own eyeglasses, got around Vatican City in a Ford Focus, and kept residence in the Vatican ...

Pope Benedict XVI appears to be getting into a different kind of Christmas spirit, donning a Santa-style hat for his weekly appearance at the Vatican. At a chilly St Peter's Square, the Pope draped a ...

Benedict XVI (1927-2022) brought back the camauro – nicknamed the “Santa hat” – which is a red silk and velvet cap trimmed with ermine reserved for the pope’s use. The camauro goes back ...

Benedict XVI (1927-2022) brought back the camauro – nicknamed the “Santa hat” – which is a red silk and velvet cap trimmed with ermine reserved for the pope’s use. The camauro goes back to at least ...

To reflect his conservative bent, he leaned into a traditional aesthetic: ermine lined capes, and the Santa Clause-esque Camauro cap, a relic of pre-Vatican II days.

Surprisingly weird: why there is more to Raphael’s portraits than meets the eye Whether painting popes or prostitutes, the artist got beneath his subjects’ skin to reveal their inner lives ...

The Castrocaro thermal complex, used since 1830 thanks to the properties of the brackish waters discovered in the modern age by prof. Antonio Targioni Tozzetti, was officially inaugurated in 1851 on ...

Christie’s said part of the charm of this bust are the luxuriously carved details of the pope’s fur-lined camauro and robe, one “forgotten” button and the embroidery and bravura detail of ...