The form of the Sistine Chapel is painted gold, plaster, and fresco, and the function is as a chapel, and it was initially used by the College of the Cardinals to decide who the next Pope will be. Michelangelo is the one who painted the Sistine Chapel, which is located in the Vatican City, in Italy. The ceiling frescoes were created between 1508 and 1512, with the altar frescoes being done in 1536 and 1541. Michelangelo was made to lay on his back suspended in the air in order to paint the ceiling.
The work was originally made for Pope Julius the Second. The paintings replaced the original ceiling of the blue ceiling dotted with stars. The pope asked Michelangelo to paint the ceiling in a geometric pattern, with the twelve apostles in the spandrels.
Michelangelo took a year-long break in 1510, and when he started to work again his style had shifted. Instead of complex stories with multiple small figures, he used monumental figures to convey a message. Up and coming Renaissance artists would use the Sistine Chapel to study and imitate the monumental weight, harmony, strength, anatomical perfection, and elegance of Michelangelo's figures.