Sistine Chapel key-keeper opens up after lockdown cruxnow.com

The Sistine Chapel reopened to public view last week for the first time since its November coronavirus closure, but for Gianni Crea, the doors to Michelangelo’s magnificent frescoes were never really closed.

Crea is the “clavigero” of the Vatican Museums, the chief key-keeper whose job begins each morning at 5 a.m., opening the doors and turning on the lights through 4 1/2 miles of one of the world’s greatest collections of art and antiquities…

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