NEW YORK (PIX11) – The Sistine Chapel is making its way to Brooklyn. “Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel The Exhibition” is an ...

Pope Francis baptised 21 babies in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday under the ceiling frescoed by Michelangelo, in what has become an annual tradition that marks the end of the Christmas holiday ...

James Hill for The New York Times The word conclave — from the Latin “with key” — refers to the isolation imposed on the cardinals who are locked inside the Sistine Chapel until a new pope ...

Michelangelo was just five years old in 1480 when Pope Sixtus IV commissioned the building of the Sistine Chapel. The chapel was part of a glorification of the Vatican carried out by Sixtus.

Entering the Sistine Chapel is an exercise in wonder. It is swathed in art, seemingly no expense spared, and there’s barely a soul inside to detract from the visual onslaught. To anyone who has ...