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Whether you're Catholic or not, it's hard to argue with the claim that St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome is an amazing feat of ...
St. Peter's Basilica is one of the most revered - and visited - religious sites in the world. Do you need any tickets to see its legendary architecture and art?
Art experts recently focused attention on the figure of a dog that often appears in ancient representations of St. Peter. According to the basilica's July newsletter, the depictions are based on ...
Rome Newsroom, Dec 29, 2023 / 07:00 am. Attention Catholic artists: The Vatican has announced an art competition in which your paintings can be displayed inside of St. Peter’s Basilica along ...
The facade of St. Peter’s Basilica was illuminated on Sunday night with 3-D projection mapping of art from the Vatican Museums in a new light display that seeks to combine new and old.
ROME — There's a reason St. Peter's Basilica was built where it stands. A reason Michelangelo's dome, ... That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church." ...
The Vatican on Thursday unveiled plans for a yearlong restoration of the monumental baldacchino, or canopy, over the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica, pledging to complete the work on Bernini ...
Moments of prayer that meld art and spirituality, he said, help visitors understand that the great artists who contributed to St. Peter’s Basilica were people of faith and that people of faith ...
For three weeks, drones led by the French company Iconem hovered inside and above St. Peter’s Basilica, taking over 400,000 highly detailed pictures of every nook and cranny of the massive ...
The Vatican on Wednesday inaugurated an arts academy inside St. Peter's Basilica, reviving an age-old apprenticeship program that aided in the maintenance of Catholic art and artifacts.
Vatican Announces Art Contest for Stations of the Cross to Be Displayed in St. Peter’s Basilica The competition is free and open to artists from anywhere in the world. “Christ Carrying the ...