A church near the West Sussex coast contains an homage to one of Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo's most famous works. Within the unassuming exterior of English Martyrs Catholic Church in ...

Whether or not you can make it to the blockbuster exhibition on the artist now open at the Palazzo Barberini, here are a ...

Abbe Dubois established a St Mary’s Chapel, the first Catholic church in Bangalore Cantonment, in an area called Blackpully ...

This city in Tuscany is often overlooked when compared to Rome or Florence, but it is brimming with wonderful Medieval art ...

During Holy Week, many Filipino Catholics observe the Visita Iglesia, a sacred tradition of visiting seven churches to reflect on the Passion of Christ.

There, they marvel at masterpieces including Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel frescos ... of Athens), which are filled with frescos by the 16th-century Urbino master. But, 500 years ago, visitors ...

A visit to Orvieto rewards you with a perfectly preserved and traffic-free world highlighted by a colorful cathedral and some of Italy's best wine.

Down in Rome, newly installed Pope Paul IV has declared ... either “a splendour that has not been seen” since the Sistine chapel or an “impious manifestation of the corruption that reigns ...

Orvieto is one of the most striking, memorable and enjoyable hill towns in central Italy. About 90 minutes from Rome, Orvieto ...

It is that time of the year again when devotees seek to strengthen their faith by reliving the passion, death, and ...

Michelangelo Buonarroti, the 15th-to-16th-century ... s Basilica in Rome, or placed up high in cathedral niches, like four lesser-known saints he carved for a Siena chapel that until now, have ...