sistine chapel

     

Sistine Chapel (Italian: Cappella Sistina) is the best-known chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official resience of the Pope in Vatican City. Its fame rests on its architecture, evocative of Solomon's Temple of the Old Testament and on its decoration which has been frescoed throughout by the greatest Renaissance artists including Michelangelo, Raphael, and Sandro Botticelli. Under the patronage of Pope Julius II, Michelangelo painted 12,000 feet of the chapel ceiling between 1508 and 1512. Although he resented the commission, and believed his work only served the Pope's need for grandeur, today the ceiling is widely believed to be his crowning achievement.

Trivia about sistine chapel

  • It's the room where you'll find the masterpiece that includes "The Flood" & "The Creation of Eve"
  • A 20-year-long restoration of this chapel, home to Michelangelo's "The Last Judgment", was wrapped up
  • El Greco told Pope Pius V he could improve this room by getting rid of Michelangelo's frescoes
  • Umbrian painter Perugino helped decorate this (he got to do a wall fresco; Michelangelo did the ceiling)
  • Botticelli's 1481 fresco of St. Sixtus II is at this landmark, part of the Vatican Museums
  • Its altar wall once displayed Perugino's "Nativity"
  • The voting for a new pope takes place in this room

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