Italy's frescoes provide unique insights into cultural, religious, and intellectual history, showcasing the nation's artistic ...

The Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary will transport visitors to Renaissance Italy and commemorate the 550th ...

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.

“Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel The Exhibition” is an immersive art experience that reproduces the frescoes that adorn the ...

the Pope really needed someone to paint the entire ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo was appalled. He knew nothing about frescoes, and the ceiling spanned more than 3,200 square feet.

There is more to ceiling art than the friezes of The ... City flock to its Apostolic Palace to gaze up at the Sistine Chapel's famed frescoes, but the world possesses many other dazzling ceilings ...

Other famous Italian frescoes include Michelangelo's decoration of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, inside the Vatican, and Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper, painted on the wall of the Santa Maria ...

After completing the ceiling, he painted The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican ... initially refused the commission for frescoes in the vault.