Alberto Angela has made a career out of exploring his hometown. Here are his favourite spots to unearth Rome's millennia of ...

Exterior shots of the Vatican’s gardens were filmed in the Villa Medici, an art museum in Rome. At the time, the villa was undergoing restoration work, so hedges and tall plants were used to ...

Additionally, the Vatican Museums are providing original images ... triples the museum’s exhibition capacity and reimagines interior and exterior spaces to optimize the visitor experience.

The building retains, also, the twenty-eight mutilated metopes of its exterior, Doric friezes at ... the Parthenon marbles preserved in the Akropolis Museum. Another is the splendid frieze block ...

An image of “The Deposition of Christ,” recently attributed to Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna, is seen in this photo ...

A long lost Renaissance Masterpiece by Mantegna has been rediscovered in Pompeii and will go on display at the Vatican ...

The Vatican has entered the digital realm, having launched a new Minecraft-based game that lets kids explore St. Peter’s ...

The Vatican may have been home to a series of 16 erotic frescos that were quickly turned into a booklet with accompanying ...

The Vatican on Tuesday launched new pastoral care guidelines for the protection and promotion of human life to mark the 30th anniversary of St. John Paul II’s encyclical letter Evangelium Vitae.

The museums suffered a major decrease in income during the Covid-19 pandemic from 2020 to 2022, due to extended lockdowns in Italy, but visitors have flooded back since 2023. The Vatican reported ...