Michelangelo painted the three large ceiling panels showing Noah’s story in the Sistine Chapel.
These panels are The Drunkenness of Noah, The Great Flood, and Noah’s Sacrifice. They form the first part of the ceiling’s nine central scenes from Genesis, read from the altar end toward the entrance.
Michelangelo worked on the ceiling between 1508 and 1512 for Pope Julius II. Although he was famous primarily as a sculptor, he designed and painted the vast fresco cycle himself with help from assistants for some practical tasks. The Noah scenes are smaller than the later Creation scenes because the architectural layout narrows toward the entrance.
A common mix-up is to attribute the Noah panels to Raphael, whose workshop produced the famous tapestry cartoons associated with the chapel. Raphael did not paint the ceiling frescoes.