Along with the blazing-red serge uniform of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, there is perhaps no other official ensemble as ...

At the heart of the Florentine resurgence were three titans of art: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, and Raphael ...

Pope Francis inaugurated the Catholic Holy Year by opening St. Peter's Basilica’s Holy Door, emphasizing hope, renewal, and ...

Here are five Renaissance masterpieces among the 160 drawings on display now at Buckingham Palace, celebrating the art of ...

As Pope Francis became the first pope to celebrate Mass on the French island of Corsica Dec. 15, the usual excitement of an ...

Some of the earlier popes, especially in the Borgia-heavy Renaissance era, were notably corrupt and secular — see Pope Alexander VI, who lived in wealth and openly doted on his children with ...

Pope Alexander VI died a year later ... One of the most important texts of the Renaissance testifies to the esteem in which she was held in Ferrara: in Orlando Furioso, the poet Ludovico Ariosto ...

Although Pope Julius II tempted him to Rome with the prospect of a huge marble mausoleum, in fact, the Pope really needed someone to paint the entire ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo ...

the usual excitement of an open-air Mass with the pope was combined with the flair and pageantry of a Renaissance fair.