Michelangelo’s stunning, fresco masterpiece, The Last Judgment, located on the entire altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in the ...

The Sistine Chapel stands on the foundation of an older chapel called the Capella Magna. ... Pope Clement VII commissioned Michelangelo to paint the giant fresco "The Last Judgment" behind the altar.

'The Last Judgement' is widely regarded as one of Michelangelo’s greatest masterpieces. Measuring 45 feet by 40 feet, it was painted onto the whole altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican ...

He also painted The Last Judgment, the second coming of Christ, on one of the walls. More than 5 million tourists visit the chapel annually, making it one of the most visited places in the world.

Michelangelo's hidden message in The Last Judgement uncovered after 500 years Despite millions of tourists visiting Rome's Sistine Chapel every year, none had spotted the depiction of a major ...

A view of the fully restored 15th-century Sistine Chapel with the "Last Judgment " by Michelangelo is seen Dec. 10, 1999 after completing a 20-year revamping of this famous chamber where cardinals ...

She was referring to a figure in the right-hand corner of “The Last Judgement,” a legendary depiction of the second coming of Christ and God’s final judgment painted at the Sistine Chapel ...

“The Last Judgement” depicts the second coming of Christ. “Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition” is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily through Jan. 11 at 13280 Chapman Ave., Orange.

At a Mass celebrating the conclusion of the 14-year restoration of both the Sistine ceiling and “The Last Judgment” in 1994, Pope John Paul II gave a homily that feels in many places like a ...

The Vatican has closed the Sistine Chapel, ... who painted the ceiling depicting scenes from Genesis from 1508 and 1512 and later returned to paint the Last Judgement on one of the walls. ...