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The 17 pages that link to Sistine Chapel ceiling, each with the reason it gives.

• ForeshorteningBroader topic: Its bodies twist and recede in varied directions, making foreshortening part of their forceful poses.

• FrescoBroader topic: Its large-scale biblical scenes are among the best-known frescoes.

• MichelangeloBroader topic: Its complex biblical scenes established his achievement as a painter.

• Renaissance artBroader topic: Its complex biblical scenes display the scale and technical range of High Renaissance art.

• Italian RenaissanceBroader topic: Its scale and imagery show how papal patronage produced defining works of the period.

• History paintingBroader topic: Its monumental biblical narratives exemplify history painting’s religious and public ambitions.

• Pope Julius IIBroader topic: Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint it.

• MuralBroader topic: Its biblical scenes demonstrate how a vast ceiling can become a unified painted environment.

• High RenaissanceBroader topic: Its biblical scenes and powerful bodies demonstrate the period’s monumental figure painting.

• Pope Sixtus IVBroader topic: Its later fame grew from the chapel Sixtus IV founded.

• Italian Renaissance paintingBroader topic: Its scenes and monumental figures transformed the scale and ambition of religious ceiling painting.

• Narrative artBroader topic: Its scenes from Genesis organize sacred narrative across an architectural surface.

• Renaissance paintingBroader topic: Its monumental biblical figures represent the High Renaissance's ambition and command of the human form.

• Sistine ChapelBroader topic: Its nine central scenes, including the Creation of Adam, define the chapel’s best-known interior.

• Western cultureBroader topic: Its classical forms and biblical subjects exemplify Renaissance art within Christian institutions.