Michelangelo was the archetypal Renaissance man who found immense fame in his lifetime and is still remembered as one of the ...

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 ...

highlighted by a painting of God and Adam’s fingers nearly touching in the “Creation of Adam.” The museum has a very strict ban on taking images inside of the Sistine Chapel. The use of ...

Pope Francis on Sunday celebrated the feast of the Baptism of the Lord by baptizing 21 babies in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel and praying ... in the Spirit of God.” “This is very important!