During the four years he spent painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Michelangelo executed hundreds of preparatory drawings, ...

Reach out and touch — one example of drawings an album of rare 16th century drawings after figures in Michelangelo’s The Last Judgment altarpiece in Vatican City’s Sistine Chapel ...

I strolled through slowly, admiring the 16th-century ... the Sistine Chapel without bumping elbows with tons of fellow visitors, you have two options: go early or go late. The Vatican Museums ...

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.