--- title: Ariana Grande Wears Sistine Chapel Dress to Met Gala 2018 description: Rihanna may have gone full-on pope for the 2018 Met Gala, but it was Ariana Grande who brought the Sistine Chapel to the annual ball. canonical: https://time.com/5269367/ariana-grande-met-gala-2018/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-05-08T14:38:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:52:44.028Z og:title: Ariana Grande Wore the Sistine Chapel to the 2018 Met Gala og:description: Heavenly bodies indeed og:url: https://time.com/5269367/ariana-grande-met-gala-2018/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2708a0acd50bf0bf/69892fc7bc6cfccfb33e5e15/ariana-grande-met-gala-2018.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: Ariana-Grande-Met-Gala-2018 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ariana Grande Wore the Sistine Chapel to the 2018 Met Gala twitter:description: Heavenly bodies indeed twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2708a0acd50bf0bf/69892fc7bc6cfccfb33e5e15/ariana-grande-met-gala-2018.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Ariana Grande Basically Wore the Sistine Chapel to the 2018 Met Gala > Sponsored content. 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Ariana Grande attends 'Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & the Catholic Imagination,' the 2018 Costume Institute Benefit at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2018 in New York City. Taylor Hill/Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer May 8, 2018 2:38 PM UTC [Rihanna](http://time.com/5257694/rihanna-met-gala-dress-pope-2018/) may have gone full-on Pope for the [2018 Met Gala](http://time.com/money/5269261/blake-lively-met-gala-2018-dress/), but it was [Ariana Grande](http://time.com/5262792/ariana-grande-musical-impressions-2/) who brought the Sistine Chapel to the annual New York City ball. Playing off the night’s theme of _Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination_, the “No Tears Left to Cry” singer made her red carpet entrance wearing a Vera Wang ball gown inspired by Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgement,” a painting inside the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. “\[It is in\] the Sistine Chapel back wall by Michaelangelo. It is The Last Judgement. This is the painting I am wearing. I am so excited about my dress. I just love it!” Grande said in an [interview with E!](http://people.com/style/met-gala-2018-ariana-grande-sistine-chapel-dress/). “I am honored to be here. It is my first Met so I am really excited.” The famed fresco covers the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel and depicts humanity awaiting their eternal judgment by God. 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