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The Sistine Chapel is one of the Catholic Church's most sacred sites. It was painted by Michelangelo over four years in the High Renaissance style, but ho ...

During the four years he spent painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Michelangelo executed hundreds ... including one believed to be the artist’s first iteration of the ceiling.

New exhibit on Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel at Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg features rarely displayed ...

While in the first half of his career Michelangelo developed his fascination ... life and work—completing the Tomb of Pope Julius II, painting the “Last Judgment” and Pauline Chapel frescoes ...

The Sistine Chapel restoration brought new beauty and wonder to a Renaissance classic. It also brought a chorus of howling ...

“Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine,” a revelatory research exhibition at William & Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art, lets us peek behind the artist’s curtain.