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.
The extraordinary is everywhere in the Eternal City, and the best thing about this second Sistine Chapel is that you won’t have to fight through the crowds.
Entering the Sistine Chapel is an exercise in wonder ... The chapel in the Vatican was commissioned by Pope Sixtus IV in 1473, and the one in the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore began ...