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.

His career took him from Florence to Rome after he was summoned by Pope Sixtus IV in 1481 to create frescos on the Sistine Chapel walls. Some of his frescos in the chapel were destroyed to make ro ...