The Sistine Chapel is named after Pope Sixtus IV, an avid art lover who oversaw the construction ... which appear on the ...

Last year, nearly seven million tourists ... take an elevator, and have a great Michelangelo sculpture pretty much to yourself. Michelangelo’s “Taddei Tondo” (tondo means round) is a large ...

The man who always signed his name “Michelangelo, sculttore”, was also, in spite of himself, a painter. Although Pope Julius II tempted him to Rome with the prospect of a huge marble mausoleum ...

The Sistine Chapel is named after Pope Sixtus IV, an avid art lover who oversaw the ... and the west wall behind the altar. Michelangelo painted the Last Judgment fresco on the west wall ...