Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel fresco has been cleaned for the first time in decades after human sweat damaged the painting.

Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgment” is undergoing its first major restoration in three decades. The imposing fresco of heaven and hell dominates the Sistine Chapel.

Beyond his enthusiastic embrace of sculpture and resentment over the Sistine Chapel project, the artist found painting in ...

Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgement” is getting a facial. The Vatican Museums on Saturday unveiled how restorers are removing a chalky white film of salt that has accumulated over the fresco since its ...

As part of a landmark restoration of Michelangelo's epic in the Sistine Chapel, specialists have been scrubbing away layers of dried sweat.

In the five centuries since Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel, millions of visitors have marveled at his work. Unfortunately, their sweat also coated the walls in microparticles, damaging the ...

: [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: This story incorrectly says the Apollo 11 mission took place in 1968. It occurred in 1969.] A MARTÍNEZ, HOST: Cardinals celebrated mass in Vatican City this morning.

The conclave to elect the next pope will resume on Thursday after black smoke billowed from a chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday evening, indicating that no clear winner had ...

The cardinals are voting inside the Sistine Chapel, but the seagulls have the high ground. As the world watches the conclave, underway inside the Sistine Chapel, seagulls perched atop the roof, giving ...

VATICAN CITY — Cardinals returned to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday to resume voting for a new pope and crowds flocked back to St. Peter’s Square to await their decision, after the first conclave ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Vatican workers installed the simple stove in the Sistine Chapel where ballots will be burned during the conclave to elect a new pope and began taking measures to block any ...