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.’ ...

The Sistine Chapel can now be viewed from a whole new ... capturing everything from Michaelangelo's frescoes to the building's mosaic floor. Photographers used a 10-metre-high portable scaffold ...

Michelangelo Buonarroti wasn’t a great painter, per his own admission, especially compared to his contemporaries and students ...

There, they marvel at masterpieces including Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel frescos ... see areas for any art-loving tourist is the second-floor Raphael Rooms (home to Raphael’s famous ...

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.

In Michelangelo's painting "The Creation of Adam," reclining Adam, his left hand listlessly outstretched, awaits God's animating touch. The famous fresco forms the centerpiece ...

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.