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It’s all right there, above our heads, as Benjamin Blech and Roy Doliner demonstrate in their fascinating study of the Sistine Chapel, “The Sistine Secrets” (HarperOne: 336 pp., $26.95).

The Sistine Chapel is most famous for Michelangelo’s frescoes, ... The serpent in this scene, Satan, is depicted not as a male figure, but with a woman’s head. 21.

Michelangelo's Worship of the Brazen Serpent (1511) painted on the ceilings of the Sistine Chapel. Photo: Nyárlőrinczi Viktória via Wikimedia ...

May 2, 2008 — -- In a fascinating new book, Vatican tour guide Roy Doliner and Rabbi Benjamin Blech make the case that Michelangelo embedded coded messages in the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel.

The Sistine Chapel in Rome is at the very heart of the Roman Catholic universe, the pope's private chapel in the Vatican and, notably, is one of the most famous tourist sites in history.

Pope Leo XIV, right, stands in the Sistine Chapel among cardinals after being elected at the Vatican on May 8, 2025. He became the first American pope in history.