A ten-year conservation project has shed light on how the artist attempted to work with a system involving a grid of nails placed on the walls

Martin Kemp, one of the world’s leading experts on the polymath, provides a personal guide to all 17 existing paintings—from ‘The Last Supper’ to two versions of ‘The Virgin of the Rocks’

Cardinal Prevost’s choice of the name Leo links him to Leo XIII, a 19th-century champion of social justice, and also recalls Leos I, III and IV, whose diplomatic and military achievements are depicted in Raphael’s “stanze” frescoes, completed for Pope Leo X

The Chicago-born pontiff—the new spiritual leader of 1.3 billion Catholics and the proprietor in trust of the great art and architecture treasures of the Vatican—has publicly supported his predecessor Pope Francis's lead on climate change

Other cultural sites have also been steadily shutting down to visitors as the Vatican marks the death of Pope Francis

Exploring the late pontiff’s deep connection to and impact on visual culture, plus why Turner’s work continues to resonate so strongly today, and the story of Sargent’s most famous painting

The Argentinian pontiff was a powerful progressive voice in world politics, the first Jesuit priest to be spiritual leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics and the first from the Americas or the southern hemisphere to hold the office

'Luce' will welcome visitors to special events in the Holy See and Rome this year

Last spring Pope Francis said “this is going on, with Canada”, but since there has been little movement on repatriation

How the Pope washed the feet of 13 priests during Holy Week is at the heart of a new exhibition outside Turin

Restitution shows that a "road of dialogue and peace always exists", according to a representative of the Holy See

Canon Monsignor Michele Basso was investigated for fraud in 2000 after allegedly trying to sell fake works

The German-born conservative pontiff, a noted theological scholar, tried to accommodate contemporary art but became a subject of satire

The pope’s decision to give the Vatican’s three Parthenon marbles to the head of the Greek Orthodox Church comes amid mounting pressure on the British Museum to repatriate its marbles to Greece

The 65-year-old tourist reportedly told museum staff he wanted to see the Pope before throwing the Roman busts to the ground

The group is funded by the Los Angeles-based Climate Emergency Fund

From Michelangelo’s Sistine Ceiling to a whole room dedicated to Henri Matisse, we round up some of the unmissable artistic treasures in the world's smallest state

Francis delivered a speech in Maskwacis as part of a week-long visit to apologise for the role of the Catholic church in the cultural genocide of Indigenous communities

"Cultures become sick when they become self-referential," says Pope Francis at gallery launch

After pandemic revenue crash, Vatican slashes its spending but protects all jobs

The restorer expertly honoured the "oneness of a work of art" and always balanced its historical and aesthetic qualities

The terrorist group destroyed 350 churches and persecuted Iraqi Christians in 2014

The Art Newspaper's annual survey shows how the pandemic had a devastating impact on museums around the world—but there were some silver linings

Tourists left “shocked and afraid” by their experiences at the museum say Covid-19 security measures were not followed

The Apostolic Library has partnered with a cyber defence firm to prevent further attempts to steal and manipulate its digital collection

The Vatican Museums celebrate Raphael’s 500th anniversary by hanging his tapestries in the Sistine Chapel for which they were created

Fashion continues upward trend in the US, shooting to the top of The Art Newspaper's chart, while the British Museum slips from the top spot in the UK

Conservators have used the method on a ceremonial cape made by the Tupinambá—a cannibalistic tribe from Brazil

Curator Andrew Bolton’s Costume Institute blockbuster is pointlessly offensive to believers