History Art / SistineChapel

See ''Art/RaphaelRooms'' for another extensive series of High Renaissance frescoes.

# Stories of Moses: A series of frescoes across the chapel's southern walls depicting the most significant events of [[Literature/BookOfExodus the life of the prophet Moses]], from his [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Pietro_Perugino_cat13d.jpg exile from Egypt]] to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testament_and_Death_of_Moses#/media/File:Signorelli,_Luca_-_Moses%27s_Testament_and_Death_-_1481-82.jpg Last Testament]]. The final story of Moses (the Discussion over the body of Moses) hangs right above the chapel's entrance, next to the Resurrection of Christ.

The Sistine Chapel is the personal chapel of UsefulNotes/ThePope in UsefulNotes/VaticanCity, UsefulNotes/{{Rome}}. As such, almost every inch of it is decorated, painted, and {{sculpt|ures}}ed to tell some kind of narrative from Literature/TheBible. With work by dozens of artists including Creator/RaphaelSanzio, Creator/MichelangeloBuonarroti and Creator/SandroBotticelli, the Chapel holds some of the most important works of UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance and art in UsefulNotes/{{Europe}} and the Western world in general, including:

* [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/CAPPELLA_SISTINA_Ceiling.jpg The Ceiling Fresco]]: Created by Michelangelo over the course of four years, the fresco on the Sistine Chapel's ceiling details nine scenes from the Literature/BookOfGenesis, from {{God}}'s creation of the world to the flood that wiped the Earth clean. Most famous for containing “[[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/creationofadam.jpg The Creation of Adam]]”.
* “[[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Last_Judgement_%28Michelangelo%29.jpg The Last Judgment]]”: The {{painting|s}} above the chapel's altar, which visualizes the Literature/BookOfRevelation's account of the Second Coming of Christ.
* Stories of Moses: A series of frescoes across the chapel's southern walls depicting the most significant events of [[Literature/BookOfExodus the life of the prophet Moses]], from his [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Pietro_Perugino_cat13d.jpg exile from Egypt]] to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testament_and_Death_of_Moses#/media/File:Signorelli,_Luca_-_Moses%27s_Testament_and_Death_-_1481-82.jpg Last Testament]]. The final story of Moses (the Discussion over the body of Moses) hangs right above the chapel's entrance, next to the Resurrection of Christ.
* Stories of UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}: A series of frescoes across the chapel's northern walls depicting the most significant events of [[Literature/TheFourGospels the life of the messiah Jesus]], from his [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Pietro_Perugino_-_Baptism_of_Christ_-_Sistine_Chapel_-_cat13a.jpg baptism from John]] to [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Cosimo_Rosselli_Ultima_cena.jpg his Last Supper]]. The final story of Jesus (“[[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Resurrection_of_Christ.jpg The Resurrection of Christ]]”) hangs right above the chapel's entrance, next to the Discussion over the body of Moses.
%%* Series of Popes: A level above the stories of Moses and Jesus is a series of portraits of various Popes.
%%* Lunettes: Above the Series of Popes lies a web of the ancestors of Christ, although they have not been individually identified in the centuries since the Lunettes' creations.

The Sistine Chapel is the personal chapel of UsefulNotes/ThePope in UsefulNotes/VaticanCity, UsefulNotes/{{Rome}}. As such, almost every inch of it is decorated, painted, and {{sculpt|ures}}ed to tell some kind of narrative from Literature/TheBible. With work by dozens of artists including Creator/RaphaelSanzio, Creator/MichelangeloBuonarroti and Creator/SandroBotticelli, the Chapel holds some of the most important works of UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance and art in the Western world in general, including:

The Sistine Chapel is the personal chapel of UsefulNotes/ThePope in UsefulNotes/VaticanCity, UsefulNotes/{{Rome}}. As such, almost every inch of it is decorated, painted, and {{sculpt|ures}}ed to tell some kind of narrative from Literature/TheBible. With work by dozens of artists including Creator/RaphaelSanzio, Creator/MichelangeloBuonarroti and Creator/SandroBotticelli, the Chapel holds some of the most important works of art in the Western world, including:

* DarkIsEvil: It's easy to find out which person in the “Last Supper”[[note]]not [[Art/TheLastSupper the one by Leonardo Da Vinci]][[/note]] is evil, just look for the shadowy man with the black beard and dark robes.

* BenevolentArchitecture: In the middle of the Red Sea, there happens to be a Greek pillar just in place to separate the Egyptians from the Israelis just in time for the Egyptians to be crushed by the ocean. JustifiedTrope, since {{God}} dropped the pillar there to protect his people.

** The wise judge of the Greek Underworld, King Minos, sorted “all” of the dead, either into the blissful Elysium, the plain Fields of Asphodel, or the Fields of Punishment. In “The Last Judgement”, the king stands besides the fire of Hell as the damned are cast into it, while allowing a demonic snake to coil around his body and giving no implication of his role in judging those who enter Paradise.
** Charon, who carried “all” the dead to the Greek afterlife, is shown beating a group of people off his boat into a horde of demons, who drag the people into Hell.

The Sistine Chapel is the personal chapel of UsefulNotes/ThePope in UsefulNotes/VaticanCity, UsefulNotes/{{Rome}}. As such, almost every inch of it is decorated, painted, and ´{{sculpt|ures}}ed to tell some kind of narrative from Literature/TheBible. With work by dozens of artists including Creator/RaphaelSanzio, Creator/MichelangeloBuonarroti and Creator/SandroBotticelli, the Chapel holds some of the most important works of art in the Western world, including:

* [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/CAPPELLA_SISTINA_Ceiling.jpg The Ceiling Fresco]]: Created by Michelangelo over the course of four years, the fresco on the Sistine Chapel's ceiling details nine scenes from the Literature/BookOfGenesis, from {{God}}'s creation of the world to the flood that wiped the Earth clean. Most famous for containing ''[[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/creationofadam.jpg The Creation of Adam]]''.
* ''[[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Last_Judgement_%28Michelangelo%29.jpg The Last Judgment]]'': The {{painting|s}} above the chapel's altar, which visualizes the Literature/BookOfRevelation's account of the Second Coming of Christ.

* Stories of UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}: A series of frescoes across the chapel's northern walls depicting the most significant events of [[Literature/TheFourGospels the life of the messiah Jesus]], from his [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Pietro_Perugino_-_Baptism_of_Christ_-_Sistine_Chapel_-_cat13a.jpg baptism from John]] to [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Cosimo_Rosselli_Ultima_cena.jpg his Last Supper]]. The final story of Jesus (''[[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Resurrection_of_Christ.jpg The Resurrection of Christ]]'') hangs right above the chapel's entrance, next to the Discussion over the body of Moses.

''The Creation of Adam'' provided a famous template for artists to parody for centuries to come; see SistineSteal for examples.

!!Various parts of the Sistine Chapel contains examples of:

** Christ in ''The Last Judgement'' foregoes the traditional beard and wounds given to Him in traditional art so as to render him a youthful and pristine Apollo-like figure. His muscles are highlighted by a HolyBacklight just as the light contrasts with his wavy brown hair, all there to show the divine perfection of Christ.
* BigBad: Contrariwise to his role in ''Literature/TheBible'', in which he is a minor antagonist, {{Satan}} is here depicted as the main driver of any evil happening. Whether he's the beautiful serpent lady from the Ceiling Fresco or a much filthier bat-man from a wall painting, Satan can't help but try and coax people into doing evil so when they get to the altar painting, they'll keep him company as God throws every sinner into Hell for eternity in the Chapel's altar painting.

* CueTheSun: The altar is in the east end so during the Mass worshippers will face the rising sun, a common symbol of God and Christ due to its association with the LightIsGood and BackFromTheDead tropes. While worshippers are facing the altar, they will also be looking upon a fresco of ''The Last Judgement'' directly above it, showing the ultimate return of Christ in the direction from which the life-giving Sun returns.

** While the rest of the field is shrouded in darkness, the victory of the small, but just David over the towering villain Goliath is framed against a white and gold tent. This is in a tradition of associating David's victory with the divine victory of Christ over sin, something [[Creator/MichelangeloBuonarroti Michelangelo]] knows from his most famous sculpture, ''David''.
** The two keys to the kingdom of Heaven, both in Perugino's ''Delivery of the Keys'' and Michelangelo's ''The Last Judgement'', are respectively gold and silver to represent their power from Heaven and their authority on Earth.

** Every painting of Christ in the Sistine Chapel shows a circle of light behind his head, with the brightest of them all being the full-body halo of ''The Last Judgement''.
** In a rare case for someone who murdered God, Judas gets a halo in the ''Delivery of the Keys'', perhaps signifying the delivery took place before Judas abandoned Christ in his heart.
** Both played straight and inverted in the ''Last Supper''. The eleven faithful disciples have shiny gold haloes, and Judas has a dark one.

** Since ''The Last Judgement'' depicts Christ's resurrection, it's only natural for the painting directly above it to depict a figure who foreshadows Christ: the prophet Jonah, who is sitting back as if to large for his portrait.
** The handsome young man dressed in white in ''The Temptations of Christ'' is a stand-in for Christ. His interaction with a Moses-looking Jewish priest emphasizes one of the larger themes of the Sistine Chapel's artwork, that the Old Testament and New Testament are continuous with each other.

* OurAngelsAreDifferent: Angels are different even within the same building, as seen from ''The Temptations of Christ''[='s=] wispy, winged minster-angel who lightly instruct Christ and Creator/MichelangeloBuonarroti's ultra-muscular trumpeter-angels who beat down sinners into Hell in ''The Last Judgement'' and ''The Creation of Adam''.

* {{Satan}}: The BigBad of UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}} is notably lacking from most of the Chapel's art, even when Hell is depicted alongside a host of demons in ''The Last Judgement''. The Chapel only has two depictions of the Devil:
** The first depiction is in ''The Temptations of Christ'', where Satan's evil is visualized with a hideous beard, bat-like wings, and a black cloak that hide his most inhuman figures, hoofed feet and furred body. His hairiness and hooves call to mind the pagan god Pan, subtly demonstrating Satan's role as a deceiver.

* SnakesAreSinister: In addition to the Serpent from Genesis, a large snake can be seen coiling around Minos in ''The Last Judgement'' to let the viewer know he's one of the big dogs in Hell.

* AdaptationDeviation: Michelangelo's painting of Haman's death on the ceiling doesn't show him being hanged on his own gallows like in the Literature/BookOfEsther, but instead shows the genocidal villain being crucified. This may have come about because the Latin Bible which Michelangelo would be familiar with describes the gallows as a "crux," although other parts of the text make it clear he was hanged. Still, Haman's death is described similarly in ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', so Michelangelo didn't pull this change out of thin air.
* AuthorAvatar: It has been argued that the positioning of Jonah on the Chapel's ceiling, with his back bent and face stating upwards, reflects the position Michelangelo himself would have been in while painting the ceiling. The three-page paper ''Michelangelo's Art through Michelangelo's Eyes'' makes a point of this.

* CapeSwish: In ''The Creation of Adam'', God has sent his robes billowing and expanding to emphasize the force he's putting into Adam's creation. His flowing robes are so huge that they encompass twelve different people who surround God.

* EmptyShell: If you look up at ''The Creation of Adam'', you might notice that Adam is pretty uninterested in his own creation from the completely blank look on his face. Not to mention how he reclines like nothing's going on while a being of infinite power is flying around two feet away from him. This unusual lack of expression from Adam gives reason to believe that the moment depicted in the fresco is not exactly when Adam was created, but the moment just before God breathed life into Adam and gave him his immortal, rational soul, allowing him to experience emotion, reason, and awe as an image of God.

* HeldGaze: Beneath God's arm in ''The Creation of Adam'', there is a female figure who is looking behind her right into Adam's gaze. The longing the two have for each other gives credence to the idea that this figure is the soul of the first woman, who Man longs for in his very being.

* MyBrainIsBig: Perhaps to communicate God's omnipotence and reason, God's robes in ''The Creation of Adam'' appear behind him in a way that they resemble a giant brain.
* OffscreenInertia: This is what makes ''The Creation of Adam'' work so well -- God is always ''just about'' to give Adam the Touch of Life.

** The wise judge of the Greek Underworld, King Minos, sorted ''all'' of the dead, either into the blissful Elysium, the plain Fields of Asphodel, or the Fields of Punishment. In ''The Last Judgement'', the king stands besides the fire of Hell as the damned are cast into it, while allowing a demonic snake to coil around his body and giving no implication of his role in judging those who enter Paradise.
** Charon, who carried ''all'' the dead to the Greek afterlife, is shown beating a group of people off his boat into a horde of demons, who drag the people into Hell.
* TheFaceless: ''The Last Judgement'' only depicts {{God}} the Father's lower torso and feet. While it's standard practice to avoid showing the full form of God [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm for the viewer's sanity]], this is an odd choice since several full-body paintings of God, face and all, lie on the ceiling above ''The Last Judgement''.

** Saint Bartholomew pops out because he's seen holding a man's skin while holding a knife in the other hand. This may look like Bartholomew skinned someone, but closer inspection of the skin makes it obvious he's holding ''his own flayed skin''.

* TheLastTitle: Borrowing from the Biblical concept, the painting above the altar is called ''The Last Judgement'' and shows the souls of Earth moving to their final positions in the afterlife.

* NudityEqualsHonesty: In a controversial move, ''The Last Judgement'' depicts nearly every character in the nude in order to show their equality and demonstrate how Christ's return has exposed them. Notable exceptions include Christ himself and his mother the Virgin Mary, even before retouching.

* RuleOfSymbolism: In the context of ''The Last Judgement'', it's unclear how those entering Heaven managed to get a hand on Jesus's cross, though that makes it easy to remember who died for whose sins.

* AnachronicOrder: ''The Trials of Moses'' literally zig-zags between the life of Moses with everything from his murder of an Egyptian to the Jews' Exodus from Egypt. It moves from right to left, the opposite direction Romance languages are read in, with no clear direction dictating the foreground.

* EverythingsBetterWithRainbows: Calling to mind [[Literature/BookOfGenesis the Noah story]], ''The Crossing of the Red Sea'' features a rainbow on the left side of the painting parallel to the rains on the right that drown the Pharaoh. The rainbow symbolizes the covenant the Jews will make with God and their newfound freedom.

* RiversOfBlood: ''Crossing the Red Sea'' sees Moses and the Israelites watch as the faltering Egyptian army covers the entire sea in their muddy red blood.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Despite taking place in the Jordan River in Galilee, ''The Baptism of Christ'' includes famous Roman landmarks in its background for symbolic reasons. The Arch of Constantine, the Pantheon and the Coliseum all were significant landmarks dedicated to Jesus as Rome turned to UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}}, just as humanity turned from death to life in Christ beginning with his baptism.
* BattleAura: In ''The Resurrection of Christ'', the [[HorrifyingHero glorified Jesus]] is surrounded by a huge aura of multi-colored divine light, sending all the guards around his tomb falling to the ground in pure terror. With the battle standard he carries, the aura gives the impression Jesus has returned triumphant from the war against {{Hell}}.
* DarkIsEvil: It's easy to find out which person in the ''Last Supper''[[note]]not [[Art/TheLastSupper the one by Leonardo Da Vinci]][[/note]] is evil, just look for the shadowy man with the black beard and dark robes.
* DecoyProtagonist: A casual viewer of ''The Temptations of Christ'' would have you believe the beautiful young man in the center would be, well, Christ. But turns out that viewer's less observant than a blind corpse, because everything surrounding the center of the painting shows Jesus in the background refusing old man Satan and his advances. (The person in the foreground is a healed leper, showing himself to the Jewish High Priest in order to certify the cure.)
* DevilInDisguise: In order to get ''The Temptations of Christ'' right, Satan needs a disguise to cover his wild, hideous body. Naturally, he goes for the most innocent thing he can find: a pitch-black cloak. Sure, it leaves his demon-bat wings exposed, but Christ is too polite to make a fuss about that.
* TheEmperor: The ''Delivery of the Keys'' includes the Arch of Constantine, a monument synonymous with the Christian emperor, to remind the audience that Saint Peter was not just given spiritual authority, but aso earthly authority to make the Papacy a legitimate successor of the Roman Emperor.
* EvilWearsBlack: ''The Temptations of Christ'' makes it obvious which character is Satan by putting him in a giant black cloak while standing next to a Christ covered in [[PrimaryColorChampion bright primary colors]].
* GodTest: DefiedTrope. One of ''The Temptations of Christ'' has Satan point towards the ground from the top of a temple, daring Christ to test God's ability to save him. Christ puts his hand to his chest to object and thus Satan moves to his third and final temptation of Christ.
* GoodWingsEvilWings: Botticelli's ''The Temptations of Christ'' gives the Angels feathered, white wings to indicate their loyalty and holiness while {{Satan}} tries and fails to disguise his black bat wings, giving away his identity as a withered and corrupted angel that only wishes to make the heroic Christ as disgusting as him.

** While Roselli's ''Last Supper'' shows the titular dinner in the foreground, the fresco also shows Christ's prayer, arrest, and crucifixion through the windows in the background, which are important to understand why the next of the Stories of Jesus depicts ''The Resurrection of Christ''.
** The foreground of Botticelli's ''The Temptation of Christ'' doesn't actually contain the temptations of Christ, which are relegated to three different spots in the background. Instead, the foreground contains a leper healed by Jesus talking to a Jewish priest, perhaps to represent the continuity between Mosaic Law and Jesus's teachings.
* PassionPlay: The fresco ''The Last Supper'' naturally shows the dinner at which Jesus announced that one of his followers would betray him. However, it manages to encompass the entire passion by showing the effects of his follower's betrayal in the room's three windows. The first window has a view of Jesus pleading to an angel in fear of death, the second shows an arrested Jesus order his followers not to violently attempt to free him, and the third window shows Jesus crucified before a crowd with two thieves being executed with him.
* StaffOfAuthority: Jesus makes it pretty clear who the King of Kings is in ''The Resurrection of Christ'' by emerging from His tomb with an imperial rod taller than Him. Just to make it clearer who is in charge, the staff is topped off with a cross, turning a symbol of humiliated criminals into the symbol of the glorified Lord.
* SymbolicBaptism: ''The Baptism of Christ'' centers around John the Baptist pouring water over Christ at the beginning of his minsitry. To the left of the baptism is John the Baptist preaching to the crowd and to the right of the baptism is Jesus preaching to a different crowd, marking the transition from the era of the old covenant to the era of Christ's universal covenant.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In the ''Sermon on the Mount'', there are two people chatting away with their backs turned to the Son of God freely giving the truths of the universe away.

* BigBad: Can churches have antagonists? If so, the Devil is a pretty safe pick for being the main driver of any evil present in the Sistine Chapel. Whether he's the beautiful serpent lady from the Ceiling Fresco or a much filthier bat-man from a wall painting, Satan can't help but try and coax people into doing evil so when they get to the altar painting, they'll keep him company as God throws every sinner into Hell for eternity in the Chapel's altar painting.

!!Works featuring the Sistine Chapel and/or its frescoes:

[[AC:The Chapel itself]]

* ''Film/TheAgonyAndTheEcstasy'' is about the painting of the ceiling by Michelangelo (Creator/CharltonHeston) and the artist's conflict with Pope Julius II (Creator/RexHarrison).
* The final sequence of ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'' has Assassin Ezio Auditore enacting his revenge on the Grand Master of the Templar order, who's none other than Rodrigo Borgia/Pope Alexander VI, in the middle of a high mass in the Sistine Chapel in the year 1499. [[ShownTheirWork True to history]], the chapel's ceiling is empty, as Michelangelo didn't start working on it until 1508.
* The chapel appears in ''Literature/AngelsAndDemons'' (both the book and the film).
* ''Theatre/CesareIlCreatoreCheHaDistrutto'' shows cardinals meeting in the chapel in 1491-92. The ceiling is shown with the pattern of stars that it had before Michelangelo, but later, during a moment of crisis, AntiVillain Giuliano della Rovere sings a song where he has a vision of the frescoes he would someday have Michelangelo paint there. The scene ends with him reaching out a hand to a giant projection of the famous hands of God and Adam.
* At the beginning of ''Film/{{Sin|2019}}'', Michelangelo (Alberto Testone) is not satisfied ''at all'' with what he painted despite nearing completion and even suggests ''completely redoing it'', and his rivalry with Raphael doesn't really help. Fortunately, Pope Julius II loves the result and Michelangelo then moves on to his next work, the statues of Julius' tomb.

[[AC:The Chapel's frescoes]]

* ''The Creation of Adam'' was famously used in the opening credits of ''[[Film/BenHur1959 Ben-Hur]]'' (1959).
* ''The Last Judgement'' is at the center of the live show ''[[https://aleteia.org/2018/03/14/universal-judgment-michelangelo-and-the-secrets-of-the-sistine-chapel/ Universal Judgment: Michelangelo and the Secrets of the Sistine Chapel]]''.

The Sistine Chapel is the personal chapel of UsefulNotes/ThePope in UsefulNotes/VaticanCity, UsefulNotes/{{Rome}}. As such, almost every inch of it is decorated, painted, and sculpted to tell some kind of narrative from Literature/TheBible. With work by dozens of artists including Creator/RaphaelSanzio, Creator/MichelangeloBuonarroti and Creator/SandroBotticelli, the Chapel holds some of the most important works of art in the Western world, including:

* ''[[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Last_Judgement_%28Michelangelo%29.jpg The Last Judgment]]'': The painting above the chapel's altar, which visualizes the Literature/BookOfRevelation's account of the Second Coming of Christ.

* OurAngelsAreDifferent: Angels are different even within the same building, as seen from ''The Temptations of Christ''[='s=] wispy, winged minster-angel who lightly instruct Christ and Creator/{{Michelangelo}}'s ultra-muscular trumpeter-angels who beat down sinners into Hell in ''The Last Judgement'' and ''The Creation of Adam''.

* BackToFront: When walking in the entrance, a viewer will first see Creator/{{Michelangelo}}'s fresco of Noah getting wasted after the Flood and last see God separate light from darkness during creation week. Put another way, a worshipper at the chapel will walk in seeing a man humiliated and progressively come closer to the grandiose power of the Creator.

The Sistine Chapel is the personal chapel of UsefulNotes/ThePope in UsefulNotes/VaticanCity, UsefulNotes/{{Rome}}. As such, almost every inch of it is decorated, painted, and sculpted to tell some kind of narrative from Literature/TheBible. With work by dozens of artists including Creator/RaphaelSanzio and Creator/MichelangeloBuonarroti, the Chapel holds some of the most important works of art in the Western world, including:

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters:
** The ceiling covers nine scenes from the Literature/BookOfGenesis, depicting God, Adam, Eve, the serpent, Noah, Noah's family, all the people fleeing the global flood, a host of characters from other Biblical episodes, and a host of prophets and sibyls who foreshadowed Christ.
** ''The Last Judgement'' is covered with dozens of saints, prophets, and sinners that are either ascending to Heaven or descending into Hell, with Christ and Mary in the center below the throne of God.

* ''[[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Last_Judgement_%28Michelangelo%29.jpg The Last Judgement]]'': The painting above the chapel's altar, which visualizes the Literature/BookOfRevelation's account of the Second Coming of Christ.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Moses can identified among the blood, lightning, and armies that surround him by his green and yellow robes, which he wears even in paintings made years apart by different artists.

* ''The Creation of Adam'' was famously used in the opening credits of ''Literature/BenHur'' (1959).

The Sistine Chapel is the personal chapel of UsefulNotes/ThePope in UsefulNotes/VaticanCity, UsefulNotes/{{Rome}}. As such, almost every inch of it is decorated, painted, and sculpted to tell some kind of narrative from Literature/TheBible. With work by dozens of artists including [[Creator/RaphaelSanzio Raphael]] and Creator/{{Michelangelo}}, the Chapel holds some of the most important works of art in the Western world, including:

* At the beginning of ''Film/{{Sin|2019}}'', Michelangelo (Alberto Testone) is not satisfied ''at all'' with what he painted despite nearing completion and even suggests ''completely redoing it'', and his rivalry with Creator/RaphaelSanzio doesn't really help. Fortunately, Pope Julius II loves the result and Michelangelo then moves on to his next work, the statues of Julius' tomb.

* At the beginning of ''Film/{{Sin|2019}}'', Michelangelo (Alberto Testone) is not satisfied ''at all'' with what he painted despite nearing completion and even suggests ''completely redoing it''. Fortunately, Pope Julius II loves the result and Michelangelo then moves on to his next work, the statues of Julius' tomb.