The conclave to select the next Pope is starting, and the Sistine Chapel is the room where it happens. As depicted (with some liberties taken) in the Oscar-nominated film Conclave, this historic event ...

The renowned Sistine Chapel is a chapel within the Apostolic Palace ... Pope Julius II decided to partly alter the decoration (the ceiling previously had a starry sky painted by Pier Matteo d'Amelia.

The Sistine Chapel is named after Pope Sixtus IV ... commissioned works by Michelangelo, who painted the ceiling and vaults depicting scenes from Genesis, including The Creation of Adam, between ...

Pope Leo XIV, right, stands in the Sistine Chapel among cardinals after being elected at the Vatican on May 8, 2025. He ...

On the ceiling of the chapel where the cardinals elected Pope Leo XIV is Michelangelo’s kaleidoscopic signifier of a time when Francis’s vision of an inclusive church would have seemed not radical at ...

The Sistine ceiling, a flattened vault, was originally painted to resemble a starry sky. The chapel was officially dedicated on the Feast of the Assumption in 1483. The first papal conclave to be ...

The Vatican has closed the Sistine ... the main papal chapel in the 15th century. But it was a later pontiff, Pope Julius II, who commissioned the works by Michelangelo, who painted the ceiling ...

The renowned Sistine Chapel is a chapel within the ... Pope Julius II decided to partly alter the decoration (the ceiling previously had a starry sky painted by Pier Matteo d'Amelia.