This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ROME (AP) — A restoration of one of ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Forty-one years ago, a crazed Hungarian named Laszlo Toth jumped an altar railing in St. Peter's Basilica and dealt 12 hammer blows to Michelangelo's Pieta, severely damaging ...

Just inside St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, to the right, is Michelangelo's arresting sculpture, the Pietà. Layers upon layers present themselves for pondering. The wonder, initially, is that a piece of ...

An exact-scale replica sculpture brings prayerful visitors of the Bucks County Catholic church closer than they could get to ...

Florentine artist Michelangelo’s famed Pietà sculpture has for centuries drawn countless visitors, art lovers and Christian pilgrims to St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican City, where the monolith ...

Its facade a fading ochre, with crumbling plaster revealing the brickwork beneath, the abandoned pavilion at Santa Maria della Pietà in Rome is not a welcoming structure. Perhaps it never was. But ...