The Renaissance artist painted more than 100 figures in the Sistine Chapel ceiling, yet studies for only a handful remain.

The Florentine artist spent four years painting the challenging chapel against his will, but would have much rather been sculpting - Lucas Schifres/Getty Images Contributor Michelangelo never wanted ...

The activities in Rome are truly endless. Creative families can bond over mosaic or fresco-painting workshops, while ...

Perhaps second only in fame to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Michelangelo's magnificent frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel opened to the public for the first time 500 years ago this week ...

The red-chalk image, which currently belongs to an anonymous seller from Northern California, is expected to become the most ...

As the papal conclave is set to begin to elect a new pope, the eyes of the world are on the Sistine Chapel, which will hold the Catholic cardinals as they cast their votes for the next leader of the ...

Only a tiny fraction of tourists step inside the gilded halls of Rome’s most exclusive site: the Colonna Palace ...

Every year, millions visit Rome's famous sites, but few enter the exclusive Colonna Palace. This private home-museum, hidden ...

The cardinals will return to the Sistine Chapel Thursday morning for two voting sessions before noon (Rome time) and two more in the afternoon. Black smoke billows from the chimney of the Sistine ...