Sistine Chapel
SISTINE CHAPEL
The Sistine Chapel is in the palace of the Vatican, the official residence of the Roman Catholic Pope in the Vatican City. The chapel was built between 1475 and 1483, in the time of Pope Sixtus IV, and is one of the most famous churches of the Western World. The name Sistine is derived from the Italian sistino meaning of or pertaining to Sixtus IV. It is located to the north of St Peters Basilica, after the Scala Regia, and originally served as the Palatine chapel inside the old Vatican fortress. The chapel is rectangular in shape and measures 40.93 meters long by 13.41 meters wide and 20.70 meters high.
The Sistine Chapel paintings on the walls were painted over eleven months in 1481 by premier painters of the Quattrocento, who were Perugino, Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, Rosellini, Signorelli and their respective workshops, which included Pinturicchio, Piero di Cosimo and Bartolomeo della Gatta. The subjects were historical religious themes, selected and divided according to the medieval concept of the partition of the world history into three epochs. These are, before the Ten Commandments were given to Moses, between Moses and Christ's birth, and the Christian era thereafter. They underline the continuity between the Old Covenant and the New Covenant, or the transition from the Mosaic law to the Christian religion.
In 1508 Michelangelo Buonarroti was commissioned by Pope Julius II to repaint the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Michelangelo painted Sistine Chapel ceiling over four years from 1508 to 1512. On the lowest part of the ceiling he painted the ancestors of Christ. Above this he alternated male and female prophets, with Jonah over the altar. On the highest section Michelangelo painted nine stories from the Book of Genesis. Michelangelo was employed to paint only twelve figures, the Apostles, but when the work was finished there were more than three hundred. His figures showed the creation, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and the Great Flood.
To be able to reach the ceiling, Michelangelo needed a support. The first idea was by Bramante, who wanted to build him a special scaffold suspended in the air with ropes. Michelangelo decided against this as it would leave holes in the ceiling once the work was ended, so he built a scaffold of his own. It was a flat wooden platform on brackets built out from holes in the wall, high up near the top of the windows. Michelangelo was then commissioned by Pope Paul III Farnese in 1535 to paint the Last Judgment over the altar. Michelangelo felt that he was a more developed sculptor than a painter, but he accepted the offer.
The Sistine Chapel is in the palace of the Vatican, the official residence of the Roman Catholic Pope in the Vatican City. The chapel was built between 1475 and 1483, in the time of Pope Sixtus IV, and is one of the most famous churches of the Western World. The name Sistine is derived from the Italian sistino meaning of or pertaining to Sixtus IV. It is located to the north of St Peters Basilica, after the Scala Regia, and originally served as the Palatine chapel inside the old Vatican fortress. The chapel is rectangular in shape and measures 40.93 meters long by 13.41 meters wide and 20.70 meters high.
The Sistine Chapel paintings on the walls were painted over eleven months in 1481 by premier painters of the Quattrocento, who were Perugino, Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, Rosellini, Signorelli and their respective workshops, which included Pinturicchio, Piero di Cosimo and Bartolomeo della Gatta. The subjects were historical religious themes, selected and divided according to the medieval concept of the partition of the world history into three epochs. These are, before the Ten Commandments were given to Moses, between Moses and Christ's birth, and the Christian era thereafter. They underline the continuity between the Old Covenant and the New Covenant, or the transition from the Mosaic law to the Christian religion.
In 1508 Michelangelo Buonarroti was commissioned by Pope Julius II to repaint the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Michelangelo painted Sistine Chapel ceiling over four years from 1508 to 1512. On the lowest part of the ceiling he painted the ancestors of Christ. Above this he alternated male and female prophets, with Jonah over the altar. On the highest section Michelangelo painted nine stories from the Book of Genesis. Michelangelo was employed to paint only twelve figures, the Apostles, but when the work was finished there were more than three hundred. His figures showed the creation, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and the Great Flood.
To be able to reach the ceiling, Michelangelo needed a support. The first idea was by Bramante, who wanted to build him a special scaffold suspended in the air with ropes. Michelangelo decided against this as it would leave holes in the ceiling once the work was ended, so he built a scaffold of his own. It was a flat wooden platform on brackets built out from holes in the wall, high up near the top of the windows. Michelangelo was then commissioned by Pope Paul III Farnese in 1535 to paint the Last Judgment over the altar. Michelangelo felt that he was a more developed sculptor than a painter, but he accepted the offer.
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