Excavations in Pompeii revealed that four people, including a child, tried to seek shelter from the eruption of Mount ...

A wall-spanning painting was created onsite in the 1940s ... Measuring 16 feet by 18 feet, the fresco is a montage of characters and scenes from the play: horses, oxen, hills, a priest holding ...

Cardinal Prevost's choice of the name Leo links him to Leo XIII, a 19th-century champion of social justice. It also recalls ...

The first wall paintings were uncovered on the second ... in which pigments are applied to dry plaster. Unlike fresco painting, where colors are added to newly applied plaster, the pigments ...

The Sistine Chapel in the Vatican owes its name to Pope Sixtus IV (1471-84), who commissioned it. The three-storey brick ...

Renaissance painter’s fresco cycle depicting the life of the saint in Assisi, Italy, took an innovative, vibrant approach to ...

A wall-spanning painting was created onsite in the 1940s by students from the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles. They were led by one of the nation’s premier watercolorists, Milford Zornes. Measuring ...

NEW YORK (AP) — When the enigmatic street artist Banksy spray-painted a heart-shaped balloon covered with a Band-Aid on the wall of ... him with art and thanks Maine’s hidden ‘Sistine Chapel’ inspires ...

There, she prayed on her knees before a painting of the Virgin Mary, beseeching God for the grace to enter the Carmelite ...

The Sistine Chapel is named after Pope Sixtus IV, an avid art lover who ... in the chapel are the frescoes by Michelangelo, which appear on the ceiling and the west wall behind the altar.