The Vatican’s famous Apollo Belvedere ... of antiquity that have escaped destruction, the statue of Apollo represents the highest ideal of art,” Johann Winckelmann, the famous 18th-century ...

has an audience with Pope Francis last month at St. Peter’s Square outside of the Vatican. A member of the pope’s security detail holds Zarrella’s sculpture “Resurrection,” which was ...

They were commissioned by Pedro de Foix de Montoya, a literary cleric of the Archconfraternity of the Most Holy Resurrection ... room in the spaces of the Vatican art gallery.

In 1972, Michelangelo’s Pieta sculpture ... The Vatican was contacted for comment. The German-born conservative pontiff, a noted theological scholar, tried to accommodate contemporary art ...