On Aug. 15, 1483, Pope Sixtus IV consecrated the Sistine Chapel to Our Lady of the Assumption. Today, as we celebrate the solemnity of the Assumption of Mary, let’s take a closer look at this ...

The northern coast of Spain holds one of the oldest examples of human development in the form of cave paintings, dubbed the ...

"This was my first-ever opportunity to do a ceiling [and] it was a dream come true," says Randall M. Good, who spent 1,200 hours over 10 months creating the masterpiece Joelle Goldstein is a ...

Named for Pope Sixtus IV, who had it built between 1473 and 1481, the Sistine Chapel's interior walls and ceiling are adorned with frescos created by some of the great Italian Renaissance artists ...

Michelangelo completed the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling frescos on Nov. 1, 1512, culminating more than four years of work. In 1536, Michelangelo was summoned by Pope Julius II to return to the ...

T he ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican is one of the greatest artworks of all time. Painted by Michelangelo in the early 1500s, the images were showing the effects of time by the 1980s.

I was 19 when I walked with a travel group into the Sistine Chapel, and I remember the shoulder-to-shoulder tourists almost as much as I remember the wondrous ceiling and walls, painted by ...

This Dec. 10, 1999 file photo shows Michelangelo's fresco "La Creazione" ("The Creation") on the ceiling of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel. Credit: AP/Plinio Lepri ...

It took Michelangelo 4 years to create the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Joanna Lopianowski-Roberts, who lives in Calif., worked an hour a day on the masterpiece. It took a total of 3,572 hours ...

And of course, that, along with the Sistine Chapel ceiling, are what were meant to focus the minds of the cardinal electors. DETROW: Quite the scene ...

As any American visiting Rome quickly learns, Michelangelo’s frescoes on the Sistine Chapel ceiling have been so murdered by mass tourism that going to look at them is an exhausting, not to ...