Michelangelo was just five years old in 1480 when Pope Sixtus IV commissioned the building of the Sistine Chapel. The chapel was part of a glorification of the Vatican carried out by Sixtus.

And either white or black smoke signals from the Sistine Chapel are used to signify different stages in this super-secret election process. Article continues below But what does each colour of the ...

If the current pope were to pass away, another would be elected by the Vatican's cardinals to take his place. And either white or black smoke signals from the Sistine Chapel are used to signify ...

Pope Francis is set to feature in a documentary filmed in the Sistine Chapel about the universal power of pop culture and the performing arts, titled "Preacher of Beauty: A Spiritual Journey ...

The cave is shaped like a horseshoe and carved out of limestone rock. "It's the Sistine Chapel of crystals," Juan Manuel ...