Apr 20th, 2008 · Throughout history, the papacy has been a powerful patron of music, from Gregorian chant to modern Masses. Historian Robert Greenberg notes that much of the finest music has come from composers associated with the Sistine Chapel.
Mar 16th, 2008 · Composer Gregorio Allegri's "Miserere" is a piece of choral music so powerful that a 17th-century pope decreed it could be played only during the week leading to Easter -- and then only in the Sistine Chapel.
Nov 4th, 2006 · Using only spray paint, artist Paco Rosic spends four months reproducing Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel artwork on a Waterloo, Iowa, ceiling. He tells Lynn Neary that he knew from age 6 that he must paint the chapel.