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The Sistine Chapel (/ ˈ s ɪ s t iː n / SIST-een; Latin: Sacellum Sixtinum; Italian: Cappella Sistina [kapˈpɛlla siˈstiːna]) is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the pope's official residence in Vatican City. Originally known as the Cappella Magna ('Great Chapel'), it takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV, who had it built between 1473 and ...
The Sistine Chapel ceiling (Italian: Soffitto della Cappella Sistina), painted in fresco by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, is a cornerstone work of High Renaissance art. The Sistine Chapel is the large papal chapel built within the Vatican between 1477 and 1480 by Pope Sixtus IV, for whom the chapel is named.
The chapel also contains Michelangelo's Medici Madonna. [61] In 1976, a concealed corridor was discovered with drawings on the walls that related to the chapel itself. [62] [63] Pope Leo X died in 1521 and was succeeded briefly by the austere Adrian VI, and then by his cousin Giulio Medici as Pope Clement VII. [64]
Where traditional compositions generally contrast an ordered, harmonious heavenly world above with the tumultuous events taking place in the earthly zone below, in Michelangelo's conception the arrangement and posing of the figures across the entire painting give an impression of agitation and excitement, [4] and even in the upper parts there is "a profound disturbance, tension and commotion ...
Medici Chapel, Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence: Tomb of Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (in Italian), Dusk and Dawn [3] c. 1524 – 1534 Medici Chapel, Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence: Apollo: c. 1530 Museo Nazionale del Bargello: Marble height 146 cm Crouching Boy: c. 1530 – 1534 State Hermitage, Saint Petersburg: Marble height 54 cm
Army vet and USA Today reporter Davis Winkie credited killed pilot Rebecca Lobach as instrumental in helping him navigate the "hardest periods" of his personal life during their time together in ...
The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, is one of the most renowned artworks of the High Renaissance. Central to the ceiling decoration are nine scenes from the Book of Genesis of which The Creation of Adam is the best known, the hands of God and Adam being reproduced in countless imitations.
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