Michelangelo was just five years old in 1480 when Pope Sixtus IV commissioned the building of the Sistine Chapel. The chapel was part of a glorification of the Vatican carried out by Sixtus.
They’ll be featured in an upcoming show, titled “Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine,” slated to open next month at the Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary in Williamsburg ...