Sistine

So that Michelangelo might paint certain figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, so that Shakespeare might write certain speeches and Keats his poems, it seemed to me worthwhile that countless millions should have lived and suffered and died.

The Sistine Chapel is a vast chapel built inside the Vatican Palace in 1473.

White smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel.

The Sistine chapel is Michelangelo's masterpiece.

The Sistine Chapel ceiling was painted by Michelangelo.

From Florence, in March of this same year, our master made his way to Perugia, where he drew the balance of his pay for the Sistine frescoes; and then, prudently avoiding Orvieto, went on south to Rome, where we have seen that Pinturicchio had now established himself, together with the Florentine Filippino Lippi, and had found many commissions.

The Sistine chapel was built by Pope Sixtus IV.