NEW ORLEANS — "At long last, here they are," said Monsignor Crosby W. Kern of the 37 meticulously made glass and marble mosaics lining rooms of the Old Ursuline Convent in the French Quarter. "I've ...

VATICAN CITY -- The Sistine Chapel opened to public view last week for the first time since its November coronavirus closure, but for Gianni Crea, the doors to Michelangelo's magnificent frescoes were ...

The Vatican Museums hold some of the greatest surviving masterpieces of Roman art, but many of their ancient treasures are easy to miss. Statues, sarcophagi, reliefs, and imperial memories reveal how ...

VATICAN CITY — Ten thousand hours. This is how long it takes to digitally analyze, map and conserve a marble statue, which could well be 2,000 years old. The work is not about restoring the statue to ...

Every Easter for four centuries, 13 priests would gather in the Vatican Apostolic Palace to have their feet washed by the pope. The ceremony became one of the most important symbolic rituals of Holy ...

Take a walk back in time at the Vatican with this blend of antique and super-modern. A reproduction of music in a hymnal from the 1500s is seen in a new exhibit on the Vatican Library at the Vatican ...

Kennedy, Thomas J., B.A., part I. History and general description of the Vatican palaces and gardens: History and general description of the vatican palaces / by Paul Maria Baumgarten ; The Vatican ...

It's not that often that the Vatican goes through its treasures and sends an exhibition on tour. It's doing it this year with a large-scale show filled with objects sacred and otherwise that are ...

The Pio-Clementine museum -- The Chiaramonti museum and the Braccio Nuovo -- The Pinacoteca -- The Raphael rooms -- The Gregorian Egyptian museum -- The Gregorian Etruscan museum -- The Gregorian ...