Between the excitement over Pope Leo XIV and the Jubilee celebrations, Rome is the place to be this summer. The travel ...

FILE - Nuns talk in front of Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo Buonarroti's Moses statue ... II inside San Pietro in Vincoli Basilica in Rome, July 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia ...

The Corcoran Gallery of Art was adorned with the statues, commissioned in the late 1800s. But since then, they've changed ...

The magnitude of history in Rome, the significance ... Outside of the Basilica of San Pietro in Vincoli, where Michelangelo’s Moses is located, graffiti includes, “Free Gaza,” in one ...

Adorned with some of the most famous frescoes in the world—much of it the work of Michelangelo ... with wall fresco cycles of “The Life of Moses” and “The Life of Christ” by such ...

The famous Pieta was commissioned by the French ambassador to Rome. The commissioner gave only a year to complete the work, from which Michelangelo ... of the prophet Moses. Another fragment ...

The 133 cardinal electors, meeting behind closed doors, will have the task of electing Pope Francis’ successor starting Wednesday, surrounded by the beauty of frescoes by Michelangelo ...

Facing each other are scenes from the lives of Moses and Christ ... Julius II Della Rovere—Sixtus IV’s nephew—commissioned Michelangelo to repaint it. Working mostly alone, having dismissed ...

He intended the holy city to become a showcase for the popes returning from Avignon after a painful schism with Rome ... Michelangelo, Sisto commissioned painters such as Botticelli to fresco the two ...

The 133 cardinal electors, meeting behind closed doors, will have the task of electing Pope Francis’ successor starting Wednesday, surrounded by the beauty of frescoes by Michelangelo ... the scenes ...