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

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." ...

Michelangelo’s The Last Judgment, one section of his Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes.© Universal History Archive - Getty Images The Noah After the Flood section of the Sistine Chapel.© Culture ...

The researchers compare their observations to those of two other women with exposed breasts from Michelangelo’s frescoed span of “The Last Judgment” on the Sistine Chapel’s altar wall ...

You no longer need a plane ticket to Italy to see Michelangelo’s masterpiece at the Sistine Chapel. You can get even closer to it in Brooklyn. At Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition ...

Within the unassuming exterior of English Martyrs Catholic Church in Goring-by-Sea is a scale replica of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with art historian Kim Butler about the artwork that adorns the walls of the Sistine Chapel and its significance ahead of the conclave to elect the next pope.