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” ...

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.’ ...

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 ...

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.

In Michelangelo’s Expulsion from Paradise, a fresco panel on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the fallen-from ... is it that triggers the viewer’s aesthetic response—the sense that we ...

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 Rare Look at Tucker Cars The Art of ...