The Texas-born theater director who rose to the fore with "Einstein on the Beach" in 1976 will create a light installation ...

The original Pietà, housed in St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, depicts Mary mourning over the body of Christ laid across ...

Nearly 500 years after it was painted, a researcher claims to have found a key biblical figure in 'The Last Judgement' who ...

And it seems so thin that every contour of Christ’s body is visible through it. Another beautiful and elaborate sculpture is ...

I f you were psyched for the release of the long-awaited biopic of László Tóth, the Hungarian geologist who infamously ...

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Despite millions of tourists visiting Rome's Sistine Chapel every year, none had spotted the depiction of a major biblical ...

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Leonardo da Vinci’s The Battle of Anghiari commission pits him against his rival, Michelangelo. In October 1503, Leonardo da Vinci begins work on a monumental mural, The Battle of Anghiari.

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French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte visited the church and told a group of around 1,300 assembled stonemasons, carpenters: “The shock of the reopening will be as great as that of ...