Incorrectly portrayed as a prostitute throughout history, the disciple is seen as a poster child for repentant ... breast cancer into one of the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescos.
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.
Measuring 45 feet by 40 feet, it was painted onto the whole altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City by Italian artist Michelangelo between 1536 and 1541. The masterpiece shows several ...
In something resembling Where’s Waldo for a Renaissance masterpiece, an Italian researcher is confident she has located a depiction of Mary Magdalene in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel.
Martha Stewart was accused of abusing her “rich privilege” when she captured dozens of photos inside the famous Sistine Chapel despite the museum’s strict rules against them. The homemaking ...
More than five million people visit the Sistine Chapel every year to see Michelangelo’s masterpiece Mary Magdalene may have been identified among the 300 tangled figures depicted in Michelangelo ...