Michelangelo was just five years old in 1480 when Pope Sixtus IV commissioned the building of the Sistine ... image of God creating Adam also features a woman, thought to be Eve The chapel ...

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

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” ...