The interior of the building is covered in 70-year-old fresco murals that encourage some in the state's art community to describe it as "Maine's Sistine Chapel." The murals were painted by artists ...

In the older ceiling is a second trap door. When you shine a light into the darkness, broad frescoes appear, of cherubs floating amid rolling hills and thistledown clouds in a summery blue sky.

But most beautiful of all is the hilltop Kazanlak tomb, with frescoes of galloping horses, and of a man and woman reaching out "to hold hands across the void" – a depiction of "eternal love ...

Held beneath Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, the conclave is a spiritual event wrapped in secrecy and tradition. There, 135 cardinal electors, bound by oath and guided by prayer ...

ROME (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday paid his respects to Pope Francis, occupying a front-row seat in sunlit St. Peter’s Square as more than 50 heads of state and other dignitaries ...

It is most renowned for Michelangelo’s ceiling frescoes and The Last Judgment, painted on the altar wall 60 years after the chapel’s construction. The fresco depicts more than 300 figures ...

Playing out under Michelangelo’s frescoes, the process is often perceived as full of intrigue and machinations. But Cardinal Francois-Xavier Bustillo, the bishop of Ajaccio in Corsica ...

Playing out under Michelangelo's frescoes, the process is often perceived as full of intrigue and machinations. But Cardinal Francois-Xavier Bustillo, the bishop of Ajaccio in Corsica, said his ...

Here's what we know about the processes leading up to the election of a new pope Pallbearers carry the coffin of the late Pope Francis inside St Peter's Basilica as it is transported in a ...

The original’s red-leather booths are joined by marble, classical frescoes and imposing chandeliers at this third iteration (a branch operated at Crown until 2010). The Greek-meets-Italian menu ...