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
Throughout the chapel there are fresco-ed panels by renaissance artists including Michelangelo (who also did the ceiling) Perugion, Botticelli, Pinturicchio ,Ghirlandaio, etc.. The barrel vault was originally painted brilliant-blue and dotted with gold stars to the design of Piermatteo Lauro de' Manfredi da Amelia. Raphael designed the tapestries for the chapel.
I could go on and on with the many famous artists and architects who contributed to the decor of the Sistine Chapel but I won't, why don't you just Google the history of the Sistine chapel and you will get all of your answers.
The architects were Baccio Pontelli and Giovanni de Dolci.
Pope Sixtus IV ordered it to be built in the 1480s.
The Sistine Chapel was commissioned by Pope Sixtus. The Sistine Chapel takes its name from its patron.
The famous painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was painted by Michelangelo.
Michelangelo.
The Sistine Chapel in Rome is decorated with frescoes by Michelangelo.
The Sistine Chapel, located in the Apostolic Palace, has a ceiling of murals painted by Michelangelo.
This could include the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City among other places.
The Sistine Chapel was constructed from 1477 to1480 at the Apostolic Palace of Vatican City. Many famous painters decorated its walls with beautiful paintings which were finished by 1482. One of these famous painters was Michelangelo, who decorated its ceiling between 1508 and 1512.
In the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City in Rome, Italy.The Sistine Chapel was the name of the chapel in which Michelangelo painted a picture upon the ceiling.
This is the Sistine Chapel in Vatican.
The Sistine Chapel Chapel is not a genre. It's a building.
There are no sculptures in the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo painted the ceiling and the altar of the Sistine Chapel.
Michaelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
The Sistine Chapel is a building in the Vatican, Rome.
Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
no the sistine chapel isn't for weddings