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What to see and do at Sistine Chapel?
pray The y go so they can see the roof painted by michaelangelo
How much admission is the Sistine Chapel?
The Sistine Chapel is inside of the Vatican Museum, you have to pay admission for the museum to go to the Sistine Chapel. Look up the Vatican Museum online and you'll find your answer.
Where can someone go to see Michaelangelo paintings?
In order to see the Michelangelo paintings on the ceiling and altar wall of the Sistine Chapel, one must pay a visit o the Vatican Museums in Vatican. The Sistine Chapel is the highlight of the Vatican Museum which is located at the end of the tour.
Who decorated the Sistine chapel?
The Sistine Chapel, designed by Michelangelo, took almost eleven years to build (1473 to 1484) under the supervision of Giovannino de Dolci for Pope Sixtus IV. Find out more about the Sistine Chapel at http://vaticanart.net/painting-of-the-sistine-ceiling
How many gallons of paint did the Sistine Chapel use?
The Sistine Chapel, located in Vatican City, covers an area of approximately 5,000 square feet. Typically, one gallon of paint covers about 350-400 square feet, depending on the type of paint and surface. Therefore, to calculate the amount of paint used for the Sistine Chapel, we would divide 5,000 by 375 (an average value between 350-400) to estimate that around 13.33 gallons of paint were used.
What do Michelangelos ceiling pieces have in common?
They are all meant to be for spiritual purposes; to grab people's attention to how beautiful the Sistine Chapel is, so people would want to go there for daily mass.
What were three works that Michelangelo Buonarroti did?
he painted the Sistine chapel sculpted david and the dome of saint peters cathedral. . ..go to http://www.glbtq.com/literature/michelangelo.HTML
Can you go to a museum with Michelangelo's artwork?
The best place is of course the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, Rome. In Florence there are some works by him in Bargello (sculpture museum) and in the New Sacristy of San Lorenzo church.
What Renaissance artist created the works the Sistine Chapel ceiling?
Michelangelo. Took him 4 years with most of it on his back laying on scaffolding. It is 70 feet from floor to ceiling and he painted it going toward the pulpit. Today when you visit it you enter from a door behind the pulpit, so to see it correctly you have to walk to the other end and walk towards the pulpit. The Vatican has a web site you can go to and take a virtual tour of the Sistine.
What was Michelangelo drawings about?
Michelangelo preferred sculpting like the David (a character from the old testament who killed a giant with a slingshot. Google image ''David by Michelangelo or the Pieta (the virgin Mary holding the dead Jesus in her arms. See link: http:/humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/humftp/Fine_Arts/Gallery/michelangelo/lj-a.jpg). But he did paint the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. On the ceiling he did scenes from the old testament like the one of creation where God and Adam are touching hands (see link: http://www.success.co.il/knowledge/images/Pillar2-Supernatural-GodCreates-Man-Sistine-Chapel.jpg). He also did the Last Judgement on the back wall of the Sistine Chapel (this is about when God ends the world and some go to heaven some to purgatory and most to hell: the apocalypse. See link:http:/humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/humftp/Fine_Arts/Gallery/michelangelo/lj-a.jpg).
Did Michelangelo finish the Sistine Chapel blind?
yes he did the paint fell into his eyes from being upside down and the paint fell from the cieling into his eyes making hiom blind.ANSWER 2The above is necessarily untrue!He did not go blind.. He finished the Sistine Chapel ceiling in 1512. He then went on painting, sculpting and designing architecture until his death in 1564.Yes,he went blind because the paint fell in his eyes because he was really close to the ceiling of the DOMEAnswer 3: That is an impossible story. He painted the ceiling 1508-12; After that he worked as a painter, sculptor and architect until he died 52 years later in 1564. Also: there is no dome on the Sistine Chapel.
Why were people so astonished with Michelangelo's work in the Sistine Chapel?
Michelangelo was a very rude and never completed his work because he was constantly complaining about it, so he never really completed large amounts of work because he had either given up or been let go. **FUN FACT** Did you know that famous artist Michelangelo was a homosexual?
