Michelangelo was just five years old in 1480 when Pope Sixtus IV commissioned the building of the Sistine Chapel. The chapel was part of a glorification of the Vatican carried out by Sixtus.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis baptised 21 babies in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday under the ceiling frescoed by Michelangelo, in what has become an annual tradition that marks the end of the ...

One may be Michelangelo’s first sketch for the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling. Some of the drawings also detail Michelangelo’s plans for The Last Judgment, a fresco he created on the wall behind ...