The most famous scene in the Sistine Chapel is The Creation of Adam. Part of Michelangelo's ceiling paintings, the fresco depicts God giving life to Adam.

Step inside the awe-inspiring Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, where Michelangelo’s legendary ceiling frescoes—including The Creation of Adam—unfold above in breathtaking detail, offering a rare and ...

The 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 ...

Pope Julius II hired Michelangelo Buonarroti to paint frescoes onto the Sistine Chapel’s 131-foot by 43-foot ceiling (that’s an area of 5,381 square feet), because the original ceiling, which ...

When visitors first step into the Sistine Chapel and gaze upward, they are struck silent. Above them, Michelangelo's frescoes ...

Take a flight high above the heart of Vatican City with this captivating drone footage, showcasing the grandeur of St.

The conclave will be held in the Sistine Chapel, under a ceiling of Michelangelo's frescoes. This week, I snagged one of the last tickets to go inside that famous chapel before the College of ...

Cardinals from around the world line up in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel on March 12, 2013, to take their oaths at the beginning of the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI.