DesignWar : art, design, photography, architecture, streetart, fashion, advertisement, cinema & tv - art, design, inspiration. Sistine Chapel - Incredible Christian art walk-through. God creates Adam – Painting in Sistine Chapel The Sistine Chapel is best known for two things, one being the location of Papal conclaves, two the magnificent paintings of Michelangelo (ceiling and far wall).
Other artists also contributed as we have explained in the image captions below. Michelangelo painted 12,000 square feet (1,100 m2) of the chapel ceiling between 1508 and 1512. There are several tremendous resources online. The Vatican Museums website is one. John Hyde.