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 ...

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 ...

And as the cardinals approach the chapel's altar to cast their ballots, they will be walking toward Michelangelo's floor-to-ceiling vivid illustration of the "Last Judgment." ...

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 ...

Father Bruno Silvestrini, Custodian of the Apostolic sacred sites, shuts the door of the Sistine Chapel at the end of the visit of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, ahead of his meeting with ...

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 ...

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 ...