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Sistine Chapel

noun

The private chapel of the popes in Rome; it was built by and named after Sixtus IV in 1473.

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"Sistine Chapel" Quotes from Famous Books

... contemporary genius, how he wrought by night with the candle in his pasteboard cap, how he had dissected and studied the human frame like an anatomist or surgeon before he chiseled the David and Moses, or painted the Sistine chapel, and how the plannings of his busy brain were always in advance of the powers of a hand that, till the age of eighty-eight, ...

— The History of Dartmouth College • Baxter Perry Smith

... that, once one does know it, one can trace a clear affinity resulting from a common origin—an affinity much more apparent, by the way, than may be traced between the work of Michelangelo on St. Peter's at Rome, on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and ...

— American Adventures - A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' • Julian Street

Words linked to "Sistine Chapel" : chapel, Italian capital, Roma, capital of Italy, Eternal City, Rome