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
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- The Last Judgment
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- Image
- CAPPELLA SISTINA Ceiling.jpg
- Height
- 4093
- Width
- 1341
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- inception
- 1508-01-01
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- Sistine Chapel ceiling
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- Sistine Chapel ceiling
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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.
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