Today, 133 cardinals from around the world enter the conclave to decide the next pope, while they vote Sistine Chapel. Despite being one of Europe’s most famous tourist attractions, Sistine Chapel has been serving as a venue for such important official functions since its completion in 1481. When Pope Sixtus IV of the same name commissioned it, he also ordered walls covered by some of Sandro Botticelli’s best artists. Rosselli. He also made the unusual choice of having a cross-vault ceiling covered in blue and gold paintings of the night sky, well executed by Piermateo Lauro de Manfredi da Amelia.
Cardinals will not vote for the next leader under the star, nor will they vote for the millennium for about six months. Even if you’ve never stepped into the Sistine Chapel, you certainly know it as a building with a ceiling painted Michelangelolying flat on the scaffold throughout that time (pleasant but highly questionable image in collective cultural memory).
In fact, its Master O’Brunassance Masters did not touch the brush until 1508. He was brought to Julius II after first resisting the committee and claiming that he was a sculptor rather than a painter. Fortunately, for Renaissance art lovers, not only did Julius II beat Michelangelo, but he was given a painting on the altar almost 30 years later. The final judgment.
In the video of Top of PostHistory and Architecture Youtuber Manuel Bravo (formerly featured here in Open Culture for accounts of historical locations such as Venice, Pompeii, the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, and the Cathedral of St. Peter, touched by Michelangelo), narrates a 3D virtual tour of Sistine Chakel. Its form allows us to see not only numerous works of biblical art by Michelangelo and many other painters, but also from all angles, as we saw in past times, even before Michelangelo made his contributions. The more you understand each element, the more you understand this “true” thing. Divina Commedia As called Bravo, when you can see it in person, of course, it is only after it has ended in a few hours, days, weeks, or even a phenomenon not explained in the history of the church – years.
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