Michelangelo was just five years old in 1480 when Pope Sixtus IV commissioned the building of the Sistine ... God creating Adam also features a woman, thought to be Eve The chapel’s central ...

Michelangelo was the archetypal Renaissance man who found immense fame in his lifetime and is still remembered as one of the ...

In what has become an annual tradition that marks the end of the Christmas holiday period at the Vatican, Pope Francis baptised 21 babies in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday under the ceiling frescoed ...

Michelangelo may have depicted a woman suffering from breast cancer in a famous fresco of a biblical flood on the ceiling of the Sistine ... as men and women with children attempt to flee God ...