VATICAN CITY (RNS) — “The Last Judgment,” Michelangelo’s vast fresco painted into the plaster of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel, is undergoing an extraordinary maintenance process in preparation for ...

Millions of visitors may have been damaging the Sistine Chapel’s “Last Judgement” over the years without knowing it. Now, restoration is underway to remove decades of tourist sweat from the ...

A visitor kneels in front of the Last Judgement fresco by the Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo inside the Sistine Chapel in Rome, May 3, 2021. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.) Listen ROME — ...

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VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A thin, white film caused by decades of rising visitor numbers has dulled the dramatic contrasts of Michelangelo’s 'Last Judgment' in the Sistine Chapel. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — “The ...

FILE - A visitor kneels in front of the Last Judgement fresco by the Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo inside the Sistine Chapel in Rome, May 3, 2021. (AP ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgment,” the imposing fresco of heaven and hell which dominates the Sistine Chapel, is undergoing its first major restoration in three decades, the ...

Journalists report in front of a screen with a replica of “The Last Judgment,” superimposed on it that covers the scaffolding used for its extraordinary maintenance, during the presentation for press ...