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.

On August 15, 1483, Pope Sixtus IV consecrated the Sistine Chapel to Our Lady of the Assumption. Today, on the Feast of the Assumption of Mary,, let’s take a closer look at this historic chapel.

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 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’s centerpiece, “Creation of Adam,” is immediately to the left of the entrance. But God waited until the sixth day to create Adam, so I started on what would be the Sistine ...

The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo. Jim Zuckerman / Corbis. In the spring of 1509, just two years after a mapmaker coined the word “America” in honor of the explorer Amerigo Vespucci, a ...

The traveling exhibit features 34 of Michelangelo’s renowned Sistine Chapel frescoes, including the iconic “The Creation of Man,” in which God and Adam are reaching towards each other, their ...

Michelangelo painted the chapel ceiling and the lunettes on the upper part of the walls. Perhaps the most famous fresco in the chapel is his “Creation of Adam,” which portrays God in the form ...