The recent launch of a website dedicated to frescoes in a Maine meeting house has created a new surge of interest in the ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

When Michelangelo was asked by an aging Pope to rush his painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, he had to get creative with classic techniques. A Flight Through the Universe Apollo 11 ...

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 ...

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 ...