Measuring 45 feet by 40 feet, it was painted onto the whole altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City by Italian artist Michelangelo between 1536 and 1541. The masterpiece shows several ...

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.

Dating back to 1471, the Sistine Chapel Choir is one of the oldest choirs in the world and is comprised of about 20 men and 30 boys. Advertisement Most Read Stories ...

fresco on the second span of the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling. Led by Raffaella Bianucci of the Université Paris-Saclay, a team of European researchers leaned on existing guidelines for ...