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 ...

The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo Tourists visiting the chapel don’t get long to wonder at the wall where The Last Judgement is painted or at the ceiling frescoes depicting the ...

Is there anything left to say about the Sistine Chapel? Adriano Marinazzo, the curator of the accompanying exhibition of the ...

The Renaissance master, born 550 years ago, pursued various art forms with astonishing vision and relentless drive.

William & Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art presents an illuminating exhibition of the Renaissance master’s drawings for the ...

Although Pope Julius II tempted him to Rome with the prospect of a huge marble mausoleum, in fact, the Pope really needed someone to paint the entire ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo ...

Installation view of Adriano Marinazzo’s 3D model projection “This is Not My Art,” spanning the Sistine Chapel ceiling and architecture (photo by Adriano Marinazzo, courtesy the Muscarelle ...

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The impressive dome ceiling in Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica in Rome.Credit: Getty Images However, the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel is not the only one in Rome. And the one inside the Basilica ...

Art critic Waldemar Januszczak is on the quest to explain exactly what the Sistine Chapel's ceiling is actually trying to tell us.

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 ...