Top 5 Famous Christian Paintings

#1 Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel

Michelangelo’s contribution to church art throughout the renaissance cannot be overstated. But the most famous is his painstaking, years-long work to paint the walls and ceiling of the Sistine Chapel at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. We cannot show it all here (though here’s a Vatican website that will let you zoom, pan and see it in all its glory), but the Creation of Adam, where God touches the finger of the first man and gives him life, is among the most famous singular images in the world.