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Perugino's Handing Over of the Keys from the Sistine Chapel Michelangelo's Delphic Sibyl from the Sistine Chapel Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, featuring Michelangelo's Renaissance frescoes with numerous biblical figures and scenes framed by architectural details. Fresco The Flood by Michelangelo on the Sistine Chapel ceiling shows groups of figures fleeing rising waters, with Noah's Ark in the background and architectural details framing the scene. Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel Fresco The Last Judgment by Michelangelo covers the west wall of the Sistine Chapel, depicting Christ at the center surrounded by angels and human figures in dramatic poses.
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Figure 8: A simply designed interior space made vivid and compelling by frescoes on the ceiling and walls: Sistine Chapel, Rome, by Michelangelo, 1508-12, 1533-41.
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Sistine Chapel Pope Benedict XVI celebrating baptisms in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, 2008, with a view of The Last Judgment (1536–41), a fresco on the altar wall by Michelangelo; the Sistine ceiling (1508–12), a series of frescoes depicting scenes from Genesis by Michelangelo; scenes from the life of Christ (1481–82) on the north wall (right), frescoes by Sandro Botticelli, Perugino, Domenico Ghirlandaio, et al; and scenes from the life of Moses (1481–82) on the south wall (left), frescoes by Botticelli, Perugino, Luca Signorelli, et al.

Sistine Chapel

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Sistine Chapel, private papal chapel in the Vatican Palace that also serves as the meeting place of the College of Cardinals when its members assemble in conclave to elect a new pope. It is one of the most important monuments of Renaissance art, renowned for an extensive fresco cycle that brought together some of the leading artists of late 15th- and early 16th-century Italy, including Michelangelo. His frescoes for the ceiling and the altar wall (The Last...

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