Michelangelo’s famous frescoes at the Sistine Chapel were originally met with scorn, concern, and controversy.

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An exhibit showing reproductions of Michelangelo’s 34 Sistine Chapel frescoes has drawn more than 25,000 visitors to the Christ Cathedral Cultural Center in Garden Grove since opening in April. Now, ...

NEW YORK — In 1557, the author and art theorist Lodovico Dolce wrote of the great Last Judgment fresco in the Sistine Chapel: "He who sees one single figure by Michelangelo has seen them all." For a ...

Michelangelo for all his immense fame isn’t the most immediately lovable of artists. People crowd to stare in awe at his iconic statue David and mega-fresco The Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel, ...

The front wall of the Sistine Chapel depicts The Last Judgement. Michelangelo shows a clean-shaven, buff Christ (Gyms and spas must abound in Heaven.) directing the risen dead either up to glory or ...

Even those lucky enough to visit the Sistine Chapel in Rome aren’t likely able to get the best view of Michelangelo’s famous frescos: the creation of Adam and other tales from Genesis and the Bible, ...

Ariana Grande, 23, slayed at the Met Gala in a jaw-dropping Vera Wang gown decorated with Michelangelo’s masterpiece, “The Last Judgment.” The singer beautifully stuck to the theme, “Heavenly Bodies: ...