Did the Sistine Chapel Burned?

Fire destroys the 'Sistine Chapel of the Purépecha Plateau' in Mexico.

What happened to the Sistine Chapel?

A 10-year-long cleaning and restoration of the Sistine Ceiling completed in 1989 removed several centuries' accumulation of dirt, smoke, and varnish. Cleaning and restoration of the Last Judgment was completed in 1994. Delphic Sibyl, detail of a fresco by Michelangelo, 1508–12; in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City.

How was the Sistine Chapel lit?

For hundreds of years, the chapel and its frescoes were lit by the 12 windows high on the walls and by an endless array of candles, whose smoke coated the delicately painted plaster with layer on layer of oily soot mingled with dust and other pollutants from the streets of Rome.