Sistine Chapel

It was the other way around. Michelangelo had to be persuaded and convinced to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo didn't like to paint and didn't considered himself a painter, he thought of himself as an sculptor. He agreed to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel because you just couldn't say no to the Pope. During the Renaissance times, the Pope was the most important and powerful person in the world.

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?

Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistene Chapel in the Vatican.

The person that painted the sistine chaple was Michelangelo

Raphael painted it, but not in the Sistine Chapel, but in anotherr part of the Vatican.

Raphael has not painted in the SIstine Chapel.

Thanks to his friend and biographer Vasari much of what Michelangelo said is recorded. Pope Julius II grew impatient and threatened to have Michelangelo thrown from his scaffolding. He had to give in to the Pope and had the scaffolding dismantled and the ceiling uncovered sooner than he had intended and is reported to have said 'That is why that work was not carried on as far as I would have wished. The Pope's impatience prevented.'

It is important because Michelangelo painted it and it is some of the greatest art in the world. It took incredible effort by one man to paint the entire ceiling while laying down. It also portrays stories from the Bible which are very important to Christians.

the reason that they wanted him to paint the celling is because they had heard of his amazing art work and sculpture.

The history behind the Sistine Chapel makes it appealing for history buffs and catholic pilgrims alike. The Chapel's dimensions are taken directly from the Old Testament - the temple of Solomon. The Chapel is the venue for the conclave. When a pope dies, another is chosen during a meeting of the college of cardinals called a conclave. It's the pope's chapel, and is still used as a chapel. The Chapel is highly decorated with many frescoes and other artworks commissioned by different popes during the 14-1500's. Some of the artworks were completed by some of the greatest renaissance artists. The most famous painting being the ceiling frescoed by Michelangelo and arguably the most famous and renowned artwork of the renaissance.

The paintings in the Sistine Chapel are frescoes. Pigment was mixed with wet plaster directly on the wall or ceiling.
A Fresco painting, from the Italian word affrescowhich derives from the adjective fresco ("fresh"), describes a method, where the paint is applied on plaster on walls or ceilings. The Buon fresco technique consists of painting in pigment mixed with water on a thin layer of wet, fresh,lime mortar or plaster.

stuff to keep it satisfied.

Michelangelo told Pope Julius that he had forgotten all about mural painting. So he was allowed to send for a couple of experts from Florence who (perhaps) helped Michelangelo to get started. Then he did all the painting by himself.

Probably a plasterer helped him prepare the ground for each day's painting. That worker remains anonymous.

It is in the Vatican. This small state is completely enclosed in Rome, Italy.cgvhgtch

For the ceiling, just a bit over 4 years. That was the time from start to finish. But during that time Michelangelo was absent for at least two long periods. Then came the "Last Judgement", which took 6 years.

No. It was painted by Michelangelo.

He very nearly did, but the patron (the guy with the money) gave in to Michelangelo's persuasion that he should be selected.

He did not actually build the Sistine Chapel, he only painted the ceiling. He was forced to paint it by the nobles, king, and some middle class people of the time. He was very reluctant to take on such a challenge, but he did complete it, allegedly blind in the end.

It changed the history of art. It did not change the world.

He created a set of scaffolding on which he could lay on to paint the ceiling. He used a technique called Fresco where the pigment is mixed with wet plaster and applied to the wall. This meant that he had to know how fast he could paint an area before the plaster dried.

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

there are no statues in the Sistine chapel.

No, he did not. One of his younger contemporaries, Michelangelo, painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling.