"Maine’s Sistine Chapel" or the South Solon Meeting House, in Waterville, Maine, is covered with 70-year-old fresco murals painted by artists in the 1950s.

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

The big challenge was that photography and filming — even by tourists — is not allowed inside the Vatican and the Sistine Chapel ... but everything had to be created, either on a stage ...

Released to mark World Heritage Day, soundscapes include the “cacophony” of the Sistine Chapel and the “reverberating” Taj ...

Michelangelo likely created hundreds—or even thousands—of preparatory drawings for the Sistine Chapel ceiling, including life-sized structural drawings called “cartoons.” Muscarelle Museum ...

Part of Michelangelo's work that adorns the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, Italy. Credit: Getty Images It's all in the details. The Sistine Chapel can now be viewed from a whole new ...

Entering the Sistine Chapel is an exercise in wonder. It is swathed in art, seemingly no expense spared, and there’s barely a soul inside to detract from the visual onslaught. To anyone who has ...

It is this Jonah that the following pages address in an attempt to clarify his key role in the “economy” of the Sistine Chapel. As Agnes Crawford writes, the figure of this prophet is the “lynchpin” ...

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 ...

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.