VATICAN CITY — Ten thousand hours. This is how long it takes to digitally analyze, map and conserve a marble statue, which could well be 2,000 years old. The work is not about restoring the ...

The Vatican Museums, which lent more than 200 of their artistic treasures to three major American museums in a traveling exhibition last year, have significantly added to their fund-raising ...

Vatican City. Date: 1527-1528; A collection of 17 love letters to his second wife, Ann Bolyn, are kept in the Vatican. In a rare peek into the mind and romantic sentiments of Henry VIII, he uses a ...

The Vatican Museums encompass a centuries-old collection of art and artifacts, including treasures of Renaissance and Baroque painting and sculpture, as well as modern masterworks by Paul Gauguin ...

Treasures from the Vatican Museums, including a woven tapestry of Leonardo's Last Supper, are the focus of an exhibition in Italy. The tapestry, which rarely leaves the Holy See, is now exhibited ...