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 ...

that stayed affixed on the sculpture for centuries. That is, until 1957, when the Vatican Museums unearthed from its storage a marble artifact that had been presented to the collection decades before.

Another of the Vatican’s must-see areas for any art-loving tourist is the second-floor Raphael Rooms (home to Raphael’s famous masterpiece School of Athens), which are filled with frescos by ...

One of the three fragments of Parthenon Sculptures housed by the Vatican Museum that Pope Francis decided to return to AthensImage: Vatican Museum/REUTERS In 2023, the Vatican finalized the ...

Two art restorers were putting the final touches on a months-long restoration of the tomb of Pope Urban VIII, who in 1626 ...