as a diagram for part of the Sistine ceiling—likely the earliest surviving drawing for the chapel. “Genesis” boasts only 38 objects—predominantly sheets from Florence’s Casa Buonarroti ...

Following the death of Pope Francis, the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church will gather at some point next month to elect ...

Within the unassuming exterior of English Martyrs Catholic Church in Goring-by-Sea is a scale replica of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling. The replica roof was created in proportion to the 16th ...

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

The South Solon Meeting House in Waterville, Maine, is known by locals as "Maine’s Sistine Chapel," according to The Associated Press (AP). Inside the building, the walls and ceilings are ...

A church in West Sussex is home to a scale replica of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling A church near the West Sussex coast contains an homage to one of Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo's most ...

The gaze of those who enter the Sistine Chapel through the ceremonial door – the east door of the building, the one through which popes, cardinals and their retinue have always made their entrance, ...

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 ...

The interior of the building is covered in 70-year-old fresco murals that encourage some in the state’s art community to describe it as “Maine’s Sistine Chapel.” Veronique Plesch ...