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

Inside, though, the South Solon Meeting House has a secret unknown even to some who drive through the tiny Maine town every ...

Visitors view the frescoes Sunday, April 6, 2025, inside the South Solon Meeting House in Solon, Maine. A rock wall surrounds ...

The Sistine Chapel can now be viewed from a whole new perspective, thanks to a digital photo project that has captured every minute detail of the building. SEE ALSO: Google Arts and Culture now ...

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

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” ...

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.

Just in case the opulence of the Basilica Papale di Santa Maria Maggiore’s Sistine Chapel leaves you feeling cheated of Michelangelo, however, never fear. Elsewhere in the building is the Sforza ...

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 ...

From the outside, it looks like any other New England church building — a boxy, white structure with a single steeple ...