The most important artworks in the chapel are the frescoes by Michelangelo, which appear on the ceiling and the west wall behind the altar. Michelangelo painted the Last Judgment fresco on the ...

The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican is one of the greatest artworks of all time. Painted by Michelangelo in the early 1500s, the images were showing the effects of time by the 1980s ...

Step inside the awe-inspiring Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, where Michelangelo’s legendary ceiling frescoes—including The Creation of Adam—unfold above in breathtaking detail, offering a rare and ...

A view of the fully restored 15th-century Sistine Chapel with the "Last Judgment " by Michelangelo is seen Dec. 10, 1999 after completing a 20-year revamping of this famous chamber where cardinals ...

Vatican installs jamming devices in Sistine Chapel Cardinals will use renaissance chapel for secret conclave Election of new pope could take days VATICAN CITY, May 6 (Reuters) - Vatican ...

Michelangelo Meets James Bond: High-Tech in Sistine Chapel to Keep Conclave Secret By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Vatican technicians are securing what on Wednesday will arguably ...

Following up on something originally proposed by his predecessor Clement III, the new pope gave Michelangelo, now in his 60s, another commission: to paint the eastern wall behind the altar of the ...

A view of the fully restored 15th-century Sistine Chapel with the "Last Judgment " by Michelangelo is seen Dec. 10, 1999 after completing a 20-year revamping of this famous chamber where cardinals ...