The painting is part of a series of frescoes that cover the walls and ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.

"As an art historian who did her research in the Vatican archives ... "I could not believe the sheer number of people that were in the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel. Alessia was incredible, she ...

Renaissance figure Michelangelo may have depicted a woman suffering from breast cancer in a famous fresco of a biblical flood on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel ... The team of art-history ...

Michelangelo began painting figures in the Sistine Chapel in 1508, after being ordered to do so by Pope Julius II. The key theme is the story of the Genesis in the Old Testament, with 'The Flood ...

Renaissance figure Michelangelo may have depicted a woman suffering from breast cancer in a famous fresco of a biblical flood on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, according to researchers. The team ...

Of the individual qualifiers, 13 are boys, including six members from Headland. Two New Brockton runners along with one each from Dothan, Geneva, Wicksburg, Zion Chapel and Samson also qualified.

The conclave is the centuries-old tradition in which, on the death of a pope, cardinals gather in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican to participate in rounds of voting until they elect a new pontiff.