It was 25 years after he completed the Sistine Chapel ceiling that Michelangelo began working on The Last Judgment, a fresco that covers the entire altar wall of the Vatican City landmark.

Michelangelo was just five years old in 1480 when Pope Sixtus IV commissioned the building of the Sistine Chapel. The chapel was part of a glorification of the Vatican carried out by Sixtus.

Other famous Italian frescoes include Michelangelo's decoration of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, inside the Vatican, and Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper, painted on the wall of the Santa Maria ...

Using innovative technology, the exhibition will transport visitors to the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel by recreating the 16th century artist’s famous ceiling frescoes in life-size glory.

Using innovative technology, the exhibition will transport visitors to the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel by recreating the 16th century artist’s famous ceiling frescoes in life-size glory.

The Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary will transport visitors to Renaissance Italy and commemorate the 550th ...

Callaway Arts and Entertainment took hundreds of thousands of photos of the Sistine Chapel’s frescoes over two months, and it has now published them in life size in a three-volume book weighing ...

Pope Francis baptized 21 babies in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday under the ceiling frescoed by Michelangelo, in what has ...

the Pope really needed someone to paint the entire ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo was appalled. He knew nothing about frescoes, and the ceiling spanned more than 3,200 square feet.

Peter’s, the Sistine ... of the ceiling, but they weren’t oversize figures the way I remembered them from my days upside down on the couch. From one side to the other, the chapel was a mad ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis baptised 21 babies in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday under the ceiling frescoed by Michelangelo, in what has become an annual tradition that marks the end of the ...