The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is pictured. Michelangelo painted the biblical scenes between 1508 and 1512. Corbis via Getty Images “He’s hidden himself in the ceiling,” the scholar asserted.

Michelangelo’s contribution to the Sistine Chapel, however, was not complete. More than 20 years later, in 1536, Pope Paul III commanded that he paint a fresco of the Last Judgment on the wall ...

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.

The Sistine Chapel is a large chapel in the Vatican City. It is renowned for its Renaissance art, especially the ceiling painted by Michelangelo, and attracts more than 5 million visitors each ...

The 34-year-old Michelangelo was renowned for such statues as David and the Pietà, and he regarded his Sistine Chapel commission from Pope Julius II with the utmost suspicion.

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 ...

Researchers have claimed that Christ disciple Mary Magdalene may have been hiding in plain sight in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel masterpiece for nearly 500 years. The sneaky figure's identity was ...

Art & Exhibitions Michelangelo’s Drawings for the Sistine Chapel Visit the U.S. for the First Time. The show is the culmination of intense coordination by curator Adriano Marinazzo, and some luck.

Michelangelo may have secretly painted himself onto the ceiling of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel, portraying himself as God with arm outstretched to spark life in a lounging Adam. The theory, if ...

Researchers believe Michelangelo intently etched a woman with breast cancer into the Sistine Chapel. Corbis via Getty Images If so, this discovery may show a pattern conducted by the legendary artist.