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Did the Vatican Once House Erotic Frescos?
The Vatican may have been home to a series of 16 erotic frescos that were quickly turned into a booklet with accompanying ...
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Did Michelangelo Pull Off Art History’s Greatest Hoax With ‘Laocoön’?
The Vatican Museums' Laocoön and His Sons is long considered an exemplar of Hellenistic artistry—but what if it was actually ...
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See the Vatican's Magnificent Marble Statue of the Greek God Apollo Restored to Its Former Glory
It has been at the Vatican since the early 1500s, when Pope Julius II decided to bring the sculpture to the holy city. The Vatican Museums unveiled the updated statue on October 15. In addition to ...
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Vatican unveils 'lost' Renaissance painting of the deposition of Christ
Historical records referenced such a work in the Basilica of San Domenico Maggiore in Naples, but over time it vanished from ...
How a Vatican art restorer taught me how to approach and appreciate my age
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 ...
Life imitates art as Pope Francis fights pneumonia while ‘Conclave’ heads into Academy Awards
from the opening scenes of the pope’s death in the Vatican’s modern Santa Marta hotel where Francis chose to live, to one of the figures central to the plot. But at the very least, the ...