Sistine Chapel

July 21, 2015
On 21 July 1414, Francesco della Rovere was born near Savona.

October 31, 2014
October 31 marks two important anniversaries for the Sistine Chapel in Rome.

September 3, 2014
A new HVAC system is scheduled to go online at the Sistine Chapel in October 2014.

October 31, 2013
On this day in 1512, Pope Julius II dedicated Michelangelo’s Sistine Ceiling in Rome which shows scenes from Genesis flanked by Old Testament prophets, Roman Sibyls, and the ancestors of Jesus.

August 15, 2013
On this day in 1483, Pope Sixtus IV dedicated the Sistine Chapel to the Assumption of the Virgin , celebrated each year on 15 August.