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Sistine Chapel, Rome - Reviews of Sistine Chapel - IgoUgo
By following these directions, I was only one of a small handful of people who was able to reverently move about and freely view Michaelangelo's magnificent works. Whether standing or sitting on one of the side benches, I remember feeling kind of numbed to the whole experience. This WAS the Sistine ...
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Sistine Chapel, Rome, Italy : Reviews of Sistine Chapel - Yahoo! Travel
The series of paintings are almost overwhelming. The eye is not granted even a moment's rest, at times creating an almost unbearable sensory overload (a feeling that has even been given a scientific name – ...
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Sistine Chapel, Rome | MyTravelGuide.com
Visiting Rome for the first time, visitors must experience the Sistine Chapel, the Vatican structure with 50 million monthly visitors. The Chapel was built between 1477 and 1481 by Pope Sixtus IV. From 1480 to 1483 the walls were decorated by famous artists of Renaissance, such as Botticelli, Perugi...
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Frescoes in the Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo was commissioned by Pope Julius II della Rovere in 1508 to repaint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel frescoed earlier by Piero Matteo d'Amelia with a star-spangled sky. The work was completed between 1508 and 1512. He painted the Last Judgement over the altar, between 1535 and 1541, bei...
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Sistine Chapel Ceiling
The first thing that Michelangelo had to confront was how to get to the ceiling to paint it. They brought in the papal architect, Donato Bramante, to solve the problem. Bramante built a scaffold that was suspended from the ceiling from ropes. When Michelangelo saw it, he was convinced that Bramante ...
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Sistine Chapel
I am Pope Julius II and I have granted you audience so that you may learn of our work with the arts. We at the church are great patrons of the arts and have done much to advance and support our men of science, sculptor, architecture, painting, and literature. I understand you are to speak of others ...
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The Sistine Chapel
The central part of the ceiling shows scenes from Genesis. On both sides are several Biblical prophets and some sibyls: female prophets from ancient times, who, according to the Church, had predicted the coming of Jesus. Among the prophets are all the major ones: Isaiah, Ezekiel, Jeremiah and Daniel...
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Sistine Chapel -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
The Sistine Chapel had great symbolic meaning for the papacy as the chief consecrated space in the Vatican, used for great ceremonies such as electing and inaugurating new popes. It already contained distinguished wall paintings, and Michelangelo was asked to add works for the relatively unimportant...
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