Sistine Chapel ceiling
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cycle of frescoes by Michelangelo
Key facts
- Artist
- Michelangelo
- Location
- Sistine Chapel , part of Vatican Museums , Vatican City
- Followed by
- The Last Judgment
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Sistine Chapel
- Has part
- ignudi
- Country
- Vatican City
- Genre
- religious painting
- Movement
- High Renaissance
- Creator
- Michelangelo
- Collection
- Vatican Museums
- Location
- Sistine Chapel
- Image
- CAPPELLA SISTINA Ceiling.jpg
- Height
- 4093
- Width
- 1341
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- inception
- 1508-01-01
- Commons category
- Sistine Chapel ceiling
- topic's main category
- Category:Sistine Chapel ceiling
- Commons gallery
- Sistine Chapel ceiling
- fabrication method
- fresco painting
- time period
- High Renaissance
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Encyclopedic overview
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 ceiling was painted at the commission of Pope Julius II.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sistine Chapel ceiling” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.