Pope Julius II, but Michelangelo didn't create it for him, it's more like the pope forced him to.
And he did not create the chapel, he painted the ceiling and altar wall.
Pope Julius II commissioned it in 1508.
Sixtus IV had it built.
The ceiling of the Sistine chapel in Vatican.
In the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City in Rome, Italy.The Sistine Chapel was the name of the chapel in which Michelangelo painted a picture upon the ceiling.
This is the Sistine Chapel in Vatican.
The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, Rome.
In the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, Rome.
The Sistine Chapel (ceiling + Last Judgment).
Not completely, but the whole ceiling and the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel (in the Vatican, Rome) were painted by Michelangelo.
Michelangelo's painting does not hang from the ceiling. The painting is actually painted ON the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican.
Pope Julius II brought Michelangelo to the Vatican to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
Raphael painted the murals in a series of rooms (the Stanze) in the Vatican. Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, also in the Vatican.
Michelangelo painted the ceiling of Sistine
The Creation of Adam is part of the massive ceiling of the Sistine Chapel done by Michelangelo. The Sistine Chapel in the Vatican in Rome.