The Sistine Chapel restoration brought new beauty and wonder to a Renaissance classic. It also brought a chorus of howling ...

With figures revealing an average of a staggering 43 every day, find the foul discharges near you by using our interactive ...

There were a total of 20,181 sewage spills into rivers and streams in our county during 2024, an average of 55 a day. That’s ...

Despite the large number of spills, the Lancashire sites are some way off the most active in the country though, at Salcombe Regis in Devon. It was open constantly for the whole of 2024 according to ...

David Sucec calls the Great Gallery the “Sistine Chapel ... of painting and probably had what we would consider masters and apprentices.” But unlike Michelangelo’s ceiling, the Great ...

Sewage was emptied into Cambridgeshire's waterways thousands of times last year, according to new data. There were a total of ...

In 1594, a newly ordained young cardinal, Odoardo Farnese – the recent beneficiary of a tremendous fortune – commissioned the ...

$16 each While there are plans to hand-paint a Sistine Chapel–esque fresco on the ceiling—involving lucha libre and ssireum wrestlers—for now the space is pretty tame. But warmer weather ...

World Art Day, observed on April 15 to commemorate Leonardo da Vinci’s birthday, is an international celebration of artistic ...

It’s the equivalent of a tap running constantly for 520 years, which would take you back to around the time Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and Henry VIII was on the throne.

The capital city of Italy is Rome, a city that somehow comes together by way of the natural conjunction of history, culture, ...