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 Goring ceiling was painted in the 1980s by a parishioner Gary Bevans after he returned from a pilgrimage to Rome with the church's priest. "When they finally got to the Sistine Chapel ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.