Pope Leo XIV, right, stands in the Sistine Chapel among cardinals after being elected at the Vatican on May 8, 2025. He ...

After that unforgettable, once-in-a-lifetime experience of being a participant in a conclave with 132 other brother cardinals ...

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

From Genesis to Revelation, Michelangelo’s masterful hand will guide the cardinals present ... the scenes from the lives of Moses and Christ, and the Last Judgment that crowns the apse.

The face on that grisly trophy? Michelangelo himself. A figure in the bottom corner, on the other hand, has the facial features of one of Michelangelo’s enemies, Biagio da Cesena. A member of ...

Michelangelo’s obsession with the perfect human body went hand in hand with his rejection ... The composition included the sculpture of the prophet Moses. Another fragment of Julius II’s ...

On the north and south walls, frescoes tell the stories of Jesus and Moses. And as the cardinals approach the chapel's altar to cast their ballots, they will be walking toward Michelangelo's floor ...

The iconic image is known for the depiction of the two figures’ hands almost ... Long before Michelangelo, Sisto commissioned painters such as Botticelli to fresco the two long walls of the chapel: ...

Facing each other are scenes from the lives of Moses ... hand to separate the saved on his right from the damned tumbling to hell on his left. Criticized for the nudity in the painting ...

From Genesis to Revelation, Michelangelo’s masterful hand will guide the cardinals present through ... the scenes from the lives of Moses and Christ, and the Last Judgment that crowns the apse.