What you see today is St Peter's Basilica second iteration ... Works by Bernini, Caravaggio, Donatello and Michelangelo (more on him later) can be found throughout the church.

Downloads of the 2024 film have surged since the death of Pope Francis—but in the 16th and 17th century, it was etchings that ...

[Editor’s note: Pope Francis I has died, just one day after greeting the usual Easter crowds in the Vatican’s St. Peter’s ...

The patron saint of outcasts ... continues through Caravaggio’s sexy and ambiguous “Mary Magdalen in Ecstasy,” from 1606, and Peter Paul Rubens’s tableau “Christ and Penitent Sinners ...

10.50am (BBC2) The Robe Richard Burton plays Marcellus, a Roman officer present at the crucifixion, who wins Jesus’s robe ... Urbi et Orbi The Pope gives his Easter message and blessing, live from St ...

(Photo by Johann Jaritz / CC BY-SA 3.0 AT) On April 6, visitors at St. Peter’s witnessed the rare ... as he made his way to Golgotha before his crucifixion. Though she doesn’t appear in ...

Like that grand piazza, which Bernini designed in front of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican ... especially the new and startling realism of Caravaggio. Sculpture had become the domain of ...

Pope Francis’ funeral will be held on Saturday in St Peter’s Square, the Vatican announced Tuesday ... depicts the body of Jesus on the lap of his mother Mary after the Crucifixion. Made of Carrara ...

The initial welcome contrasts with the suffering that follows, leading up to his crucifixion, which Christians observe on Good Friday, followed by his resurrection, celebrated on Easter Sunday. The ...

Cardinals, royals and heads of state attended. But many mourners, some of whom slept on the streets overnight, said they came ...