The Sistine Chapel is located in the Vatican Museums in Vatican City, Rome. The chapel was named after Pope Sixtus IV della Rovere, who had the chapel restored between 1477 and 1480.

The 15th-century decoration of the walls includes the false drapes, the Stories of Moses on the south and entrance walls, with Jesus Christ on the north and entrance walls, and the portraits of the Popes on the north, south and entrance walls.

Pope Julius II della Rovere, the nephew of Sixtus IV, decided to partly alter the decoration, entrusting the work in 1508 to Michelangelo Buonarroti, who painted the Ceiling and, on the upper part of the walls, the lunettes. The nine central panels show the Stories of Genesis, from the Creation to the Fall of man, to the Flood and the subsequent rebirth of mankind with the family of Noah.