The idea of respecting and preserving, rather than fully reversing age, was the new lens through which I would view art − and my own place in the world on this birthday ...

The students live inside the Vatican and attend classes on several core subjects together, including the history of St. Peter’s Basilica, fundamentals of the history of architecture and art ...

There has long been a Vatican taboo against openly talking about a conclave when a pope is sick: It’s considered gauche to speculate about the election of a new pope while the current one is fighting ...

hosted in a separate room in the spaces of the Vatican art gallery. The exhibition also has a charitable aspect: the proceeds from the sale of the catalogue will be donated to the victims of the ...

The paintings are held in the Vatican collections ... who pioneered modern Japanese style in fine art. Okayama became a devotee of Japanese Christian martyrs in his student days.

Recent high school and college graduates are studying some of the world’s historic arts and trades at a new school run by St. Peter’s Basilica. The “School of Arts and Crafts” of the ...