While the painted ceiling is a showstopper, each chapel wall explores a different aspect of the Christian faith journey: the stories of Moses, Christ, and the Popes throughout history.

A painstaking virtual recreation of the Sistine Chapel is now available for free on Steam, offering an incredible up-close view of the works along with an hour of guided audio commentary.

Using only your computer mouse, you can view and zoom in on all the walls, the ceiling and even the floor of the Sistine Chapel.

Other areas of the Vatican have photo galleries and written information, but nothing comes close to the virtual tour of the Sistine Chapel.

As we discovered through Good Housekeeping, Vatican City offers several online virtual tours allowing you to visit several of their landmark attractions including the Raphael Rooms painted by ...

The Vatican's Sistine Chapel is not only one of the world's most famous galleries of biblical art, it's was also designed to be a papal chapel. That means it's where the conclave of cardinals is ...

When Michelangelo started painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling in 1508, he knew well the chapel's importance as the seat of papal conclaves, but he likely never envisioned that 5 million tourists ...

April 28, 2008 -- For centuries, people of all faiths have come to Rome and the Sistine Chapel to stare up at its immense ceiling and see Michelangelo's stunning masterpiece. To most, it is a ...

While the painted ceiling is a showstopper, each chapel wall explores a different aspect of the Christian faith journey: the stories of Moses, Christ, and the Popes throughout history.