Michelangelo was just five years old in 1480 when Pope Sixtus IV commissioned the building of the Sistine ... image of God creating Adam also features a woman, thought to be Eve The chapel ...

Another fresco depicts the binding of Isaac, in which a hooded Abraham prepares to sacrifice his son on God's orders. The Great Flood is depicted as it was by Michelangelo at the Sistine Chapel at ...

The overwhelming grandeur, scope and vision of Michelangelo’s miraculous Sistine Chapel ceiling and “The ... hand of an artist but from that of a god. Still, we well know that Michelangelo ...

The recent launch of a website dedicated to frescoes in a Maine meeting house has created a new surge of interest in the paintings.