Vatican removes salty white film coating Michelangelo's 'The Last Judgment'

The cleaning operation is expected to be completed by Easter, in the first week of April. The public can continue to visit in the meantime.
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Vatican Museums Begin Restoration Of Michelangelo’s Monumental ‘Last Judgment’

Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgment” in the Sistine Chapel will undergo a three-month restoration. The monumental fresco, ...
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Vatican Museum to return artifacts to Indigenous groups in Canada

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is expected to soon announce that it will return a few dozen artifacts to Indigenous communities in Canada as part of its reckoning with the Catholic Church’s troubled ...
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Indigenous artifacts held in Vatican Museums finally heading back to Canada

The century-old kayak has spent decades locked away in the vaults of the Vatican Museums, its driftwood frame still holding together, though the fragile sealskin cover is partly tattered. Out of sight ...
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Pope Leo returns Indigenous artifacts from Vatican Museums to Canada

A wampum belt, from what is now Quebec, symbolizing Indigenous people forming an alliance with French Catholic colonizers is seen in this 2008 file photo from the Vatican Museums' ethnological ...