Michelangelo, da Vinci, Van Gogh and company were pretty brilliant at hiding secret messages in their paintings Finding secret messages in paintings There’s a reason why masterpiece works of art spark ...

(“So help me God and these Holy Gospels which I touch ... masterpieces of Michelangelo and others that adorn the sacred Sistine Chapel, the timeless stage for the conclave.

Onlookers stood in awe as the video feed followed the cardinals from the Pauline Chapel to the Sistine Chapel. All the way, they sang the Litany of the Saints — invoking God to have mercy on ...

As the cardinals gaze up at the ceiling, they will feel the ... “Praying in the Sistine Chapel, enveloped in the story of God’s journey with humanity, admirably represented in the frescoes ...

The Sistine ceiling, a flattened vault, was originally painted to resemble a starry sky. The chapel was officially ... “We believe in one God...maker of heaven and earth, of all things seen ...

And of course, that, along with the Sistine Chapel ceiling, are what were meant to ... Michelangelo's iconic "Creation Of Adam," which shows God with his divine finger infusing the Holy Spirit ...