The recent launch of a website dedicated to frescoes in a Maine meeting house has created a new surge of interest in the ...

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.

The impressive dome ceiling in Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica in Rome.Credit: Getty Images However, the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel is not the only one in Rome. And the one inside the Basilica ...

When Michelangelo was asked by an aging Pope to rush his painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, he had to get creative with classic techniques. A Flight Through the Universe Apollo 11 ...

Stepping into the Sistine Chapel is an experience like no other ... and his magnificent dome, which offers panoramic views of Rome. Some of the things I loved seeing and learning about inside ...

The overwhelming grandeur, scope and vision of Michelangelo’s miraculous Sistine Chapel ceiling and “The Last Judgment” frescoes transcend reason and defy human capability. Comprising more ...

When it comes to ceilings, the Sistine Chapel tends to grab the headlines ... featuring an inverted dome skylight. Built between 1905 and 1908, the venue was designed to allow in as much natural ...