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.
Gurugram: Scenes from the Sistine Chapel, the famous statue of Laocoön and His Sons wrestling giant snakes, Thomas Couture’s ...
A wooden statue of Saint Paul straight ahead ... Give the priests there the photo that you took of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, then unlock the exit door to give yourself an easy way back into ...
Pope Francis is set to feature in a doc about the positive power of pop culture artists, to be filmed in the Sistine Chapel.
The big challenge was that photography and filming — even by tourists — is not allowed inside the Vatican and the Sistine Chapel. The team had access to old footage and images, as well as ...
Attractions encompass the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican Museums, making this city-state so immense (and notoriously crowded) that guided Vatican tours are highly recommended.
For me that day was April 8, 1994, when Pope John Paul II celebrated a Mass in the Sistine Chapel, which my team ... the excavation of famous Roman statues at the ancient town of Ostia—statues ...