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Nine things you might not know about the Sistine Chapel
The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo Tourists visiting the chapel don’t get long to wonder at the wall where The Last Judgement is painted or at the ceiling frescoes depicting the ...
BBC1y
Five amazing ceilings from around the world
When it comes to ceilings, the Sistine Chapel tends to grab the headlines ... hall has a breath-taking stained glass ceiling, featuring an inverted dome skylight. Built between 1905 and 1908 ...
Sydney Morning Herald13d
No Michelangelo, but Rome’s other Sistine Chapel is just as impressive
The impressive dome ceiling in Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica in Rome.Credit: Getty Images However, the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel is not the only one in Rome. And the one inside the Basilica ...
Rome’s lesser-known ‘other Sistine Chapel’ is a frenzy of opulence
The extraordinary is everywhere in the Eternal City, and the best thing about this second Sistine Chapel is that you won’t ...
The Art Newspaper5d
April Book Bag: from a new angle on Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel to the re-issuing of bell hooks’s art essays
“In my view, Michelangelo subtly integrated elements of this tomb project into the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes, particularly within the painted architecture,” writes Marinazzo. In Art on ...