SISTINE CHAPEL

INTRODUCTION

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Like you, every year about 10 million tourists pass through the miles of corridors in the Vatican Museums to go straight to the Sistine Chapel, where they are enchanted, or rather overwhelmed, by the...

INTERIOR

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Now that you are inside the Sistine Chapel, the first impression you get will probably be more from the crowd and the noise than from the frescoes, unless you have cleverly chosen to take advantage of...

WALLS

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The chapel's decoration began in 1481, just after the end of the hostilities between Rome and Florence that were set off by the Pazzi conspiracy. Lorenzo the Magnificent, who managed to avoid the plot...

VAULT - GENERAL

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And now find a comfortable spot and look up: we're about to dive into one of the greatest artistic masterpieces of all time. I'm obviously talking about Michelangelo's frescoes. You are lucky enough...

VAULT - SCENES

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After having built the scaffolding to work from, Michelangelo began painting in July of 1508; he ran into a few problems because he didn't have much experience painting using the fresco technique....

LAST JUDGMENT - PRESENTATION

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Michelangelo's "Second Act" at the Sistine Chapel began more than twenty years later, after Rome had been plundered by German mercenary soldiers, the fearsome "Lanzichenecchi", at...

LAST JUDGMENT - TOUR

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As you may have heard, Michelangelo gives the impression of adhering to some of the doctrines sustained by the Reformation of Martin Luther, here in the most sacred chapel of Catholicism. Take for...