In the older ceiling is a second trap door. When you shine a light into the darkness, broad frescoes appear, of cherubs floating amid rolling hills and thistledown clouds in a summery blue sky.

Sealed away above the ceiling were three massive 17th-century frescoes that remained untouched by the passage of time. Built ...

While the exterior of the Sistine Chapel is muted, it is regarded for its majestic interior, as the walls and ceiling are decorated with frescoes created by many Florentine Renaissance artists.

Michelangelo was commissioned by Julius II to paint the ceiling frescoes, completed between 1508 and 1512. The frescoes show scenes from the Bible's Old and New Testaments, most famously "The ...

Michelangelo was commissioned by Julius II to paint the ceiling frescoes, completed between 1508 and 1512. The frescoes show scenes from the Bible's Old and New Testaments, including "The Creation ...

It began as a routine check of some cables in the Renaissance Villa Farnesina in Rome... But what electrician Davide Renzoni uncovered when he opened a ceiling trapdoor was nothing short of ...

At Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition®, visitors can get an up-close look at life-sized reproductions of the Renaissance painter’s world-famous ceiling frescoes from the Vatican.

After making its way through London, Shanghai, Toronto, Chicago, Vienna and many other cities around the world, reproductions of the renowned ceiling frescoes from the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel ...