Sistine Chapel (Italian: Cappella Sistina) is the best-known chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the Pope in Vatican City. It is famous for its architecture and its decoration that was frescoed throughout by the greatest Renaissance artists including Michelangelo, Raphael, Bernini, and Sandro Botticelli. Under the patronage of Pope Julius II, Michelangelo painted 12,000 square feet (1,100 m2) of the chapel ceiling between 1508 and 1512. He resented the commission, and believed his work only served the Pope's need for grandeur. However, today the ceiling, and especially The Last Judgement, is widely believed to be Michelangelo's crowning achievement in painting.
The chapel takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV, who restored the old Cappella Magna between 1477 and 1480.
Visit this great chapel and look in it`s inside.
Vatican City has become one of the most famous art galleries in the western world.
Official website:
http://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/CSN/CSN_Main
The famous Sistine ceiling is divided into nine sections in which nine stories of Genesis – from the stages of Creation to the Drunkenness of Noah – are depicted. The scenes begin from the altar wall and proceed toward the entrance; Michelangelo painted them in reverse order since he started from the area near the entrance wall. The twisting ignudi or male nudes that decorate the corners of the ceiling were highly controversial at the time. In total, Michelangelo's work on the Sistine Chapel includes:
* 9 scenes from Genesis
* 4 corner pendentives
* 4 pairs of bronze nudes above the pendentives
* 8 triangular spandrels with pairs of bronze nudes
* 7 prophets (4 major: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Daniel; and 3 minor: Zechariah, Joel and Jonah)
* 5 sybils
* 20 ignudi
* 10 medallions
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