The Sistine Chapel can now be viewed from a whole new ... capturing everything from Michaelangelo's frescoes to the building's mosaic floor. Photographers used a 10-metre-high portable scaffold ...

Is there anything left to say about the Sistine Chapel? Adriano Marinazzo, the curator of the accompanying exhibition of the same name at the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the college of William ...

William & Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art presents an illuminating exhibition of the Renaissance master’s drawings for the Sistine Chapel ceiling and ‘The Last Judgment.’ ...

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.

More than six million people visit the Sistine Chapel each year - making it the third most-visited museum in the world. This puts a strain on the health of the famous frescos. So the Vatican ...

In Michelangelo's painting "The Creation of Adam," reclining Adam, his left hand listlessly outstretched, awaits God's animating touch. The famous fresco forms the centerpiece ...

Attractions encompass the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican Museums, making this city-state so immense (and notoriously crowded) that guided Vatican tours are highly recommended.

Michelangelo Buonarroti wasn’t a great painter, per his own admission, especially compared to his contemporaries and students ...