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

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

Archaeologists have discovered tens of thousands of ancient paintings dating back some 12,500 years ... the find has been aptly lauded as “the Sistine Chapel of the ancients.” ...

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 ...

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

The nearly eight-foot "Holy Ghost" is the tallest of 80 figures in Horseshoe Canyon's Great Gallery, a 300-foot mural that David Sucec (above) calls the "Sistine Chapel" of Utah's Barrier Canyon art.

The gaze of those who enter the Sistine Chapel ... on the opposite wall, dominated by the imposing figure of Christ, the judge of history. Viewers, however, are surprised as their eyes turn even ...

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 ...

Entering the Sistine ... of the chapel itself. The statue of Sixtus V on his funerary monument has him kneeling in adoration, rather than aggrandised on a throne. On the opposite wall, the statue ...