The unvirginal hands of a gay man decorated the walls and ceilings the most famous church in the world: the Sistine Chapel.

Brooklyn Heights brownstone has been transformed into a maxmialist's paradise. Close your eyes and imagine candy-colored walls, velvet couches with fringe, vibrant tapestries from India, lacquered ...

One of the world’s largest art and design museums is offering the public a chance for visitors to see up close — and touch — ...

Step inside the awe-inspiring Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, where Michelangelo’s legendary ceiling frescoes—including The Creation of Adam—unfold above in breathtaking detail, offering a ...

On the ground floor of the beautiful Stamba Hotel is a chic café called Café Stamba. It’s pretty much the place to be seen in ...

On the ceiling of the chapel where the cardinals elected Pope Leo XIV is Michelangelo’s kaleidoscopic signifier of a time when Francis’s vision of an inclusive church would have seemed not radical at ...

The magnificence of Michelangelo's ceiling frescoes now vaults above more mundane rows of stackable chairs and desks marked with simple place-settings listing the surnames of the cardinal electors.

I admonished my college students to keep a daily journal, especially when they travelled. Putting my preaching into practice ...

Some rooms have sculptural pedestal sinks. One even boasts original ceiling frescoes. Illuminating hallways are yellow-glass reeditions of Carlo Scarpa’s 1958 Poliedri lights. “I enjoy mixing ...

(If that seems a little presumptuous on the part of the artists, keep in mind that the fresco inside the U.S. Capitol Rotunda depicts George Washington ascending into heaven.) The Sistine ceiling ...