This year's festival was dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union's Victory over Nazi Germany in the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War ...

The works on display comprise a visual and historical tour through sacred art and portraits from the Renaissance and Baroque ...

What has stood out most to me in the reopening of the Frick is the extraordinary response it has elicited,” director Axel ...

Following Pope Francis’s passing on April 21 and the election of Pope Leo on May 8, many people have wondered where the ...

On the ceiling of the chapel where the cardinals elected Pope Leo XIV is Michelangelo’s kaleidoscopic signifier of a time when Francis’s vision of an inclusive church would have seemed not radical at ...

Pope Nicholas II addressed this corruption with election reforms, ensuring that the College of Cardinals alone were responsible for electing the pontiff. Pope St. Gregory the VII later drove at ...

Pope Francis’ funeral will be held on Saturday in St Peter’s Square ... The election of Nicholas V, a humanist, as pope changed Rome’s fortunes. He is credited with bringing the Renaissance to the ...

Before Pope Francis, Pope Benedict XVI was the leader of the Catholic Church. Benedict, a German-born academic, was one of the oldest popes to take charge of the church from 2005 until his retirement ...

However, thanks to a group of tough-as-nails nonnas and an anti-corruption mayor, this capital city of Puglia is experiencing its own Italian ... 11th century after Saint Nicholas' body was ...

Clifton Massey and Margaret Carpenter Haigh sing dramatic musical dialogues about the martyr St. Catherine, accompanied by music composed in 1701 by Italian ... Kay as St. Nicholas (soprano ...

The pieces that are displayed in the exhibition are sourced from the Royal Collection, which, with near 2,000 sheets, possesses one of the world’s largest collections of Renaissance drawings. Drawing ...