In 1507 his friend, Agnolo Doni, ordered a beautiful portrait of the Holy Family. Michelangelo used especially vibrant colours to achieve both complex perspective and an unusually touching intimacy.

Michelangelo appears to have depicted a woman with breast cancer in his fresco The Flood on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, which may have been a message on the inevitability of death.

The statue is stuck outdoors amid a messy family dispute over the property Çam's identification of the statue as a bona fide Michelangelo, argued over the past year and a half in a four-part ...

Bearing witness to centuries of history, these Gothic, Romanesque or Baroque monuments are uniquely recognizable by their ...

In the sixteenth century, at the Villa Medici in Rome, the nobles, ecclesiastics and artists invited to a banquet congratulate Giovanni de' Medici on his promised accession to the Holy See for the ...

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

Researchers at Google DeepMind have introduced Michelangelo, a new benchmark designed to evaluate the long-context reasoning capabilities of LLMs. Their findings, published in a new research paper ...

Among the thousands of works on display, you can see Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" and "La Primavera", "The Venus of Urbino" by Titian, "The Holy Family (Doni Tondo)" by Michelangelo, "The ...

Avoid Rome's congested traffic and keep the family entertained on this golf cart tour – a popular way to get around town.

In ’Millions,’ Nine-year-old Damian’s relationship with the saints is stylized and often comical, but it also feels honest.

After Holy Thursday, no Mass will be celebrated again in the Church until the Easter Vigil celebrates and proclaims the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Latest news How can we suffer well ...

Holy basil is an herb from the basil family. Some animal and test tube studies suggest it has potential health benefits, such as aiding wound healing and stress relief, but this may not apply to ...