It took Michelangelo about four years to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling, from 1508 to 1512.
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It is 40 m long.
The Sistine Chapel! OK?!Michelangelo started painting the ceiling in1508 and finished it in 1512. He was away from this work some time.Michelangelo then painted the altar wall of the chapel between 1535 and 1541.
The Sistine Chapel is part of the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican and belongs exlusively to the Catholic Church that has perpetual control over it.
It's about 40 meters (131 feet) long by 13 meters (43 feet) wide. These numbers are rounded off just a little bit. Michelangelo painted over 5,000 square feet of frescoes.
it shows anatomical features in detail
It took him 4 years to paint the ceiling and 6 years to paint the altar.
Sistine Chapel is actually quite small, it is after all a chapel. It measures 40.9 meters (134 ft) long by 13.4 meters (44 ft) wide and constitutes a negligible percentage of the Vatican's total area.
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.
The Sistine Chapel, designed by Baccio Pontelli, took almost eleven years to build (1473 to 1484) under the supervision of Giovannino de Dolci for Pope Sixtus IV.