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.

During the four years he spent painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Michelangelo executed hundreds of preparatory drawings, only 50 of which survive today. In March, a rare roundup of these sketches ...

This new book on the Sistine Chapel costs $22,000 The trilogy is two feet tall and weighs 75 pounds—and it was created to be a work of art.

Attractions encompass the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican Museums, making this city-state so immense (and notoriously crowded) that guided Vatican tours are highly recommended.

Pope Francis is set to feature in a documentary filmed in the Sistine Chapel about the universal ... It is being produced by Italy’s Andrea Iervolino (“Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend ...