Painted The Ceiling Of The Sistine Chapel In Rome

The artist painted all the frescoes from the ceiling of the sistine chapel.

Painted the ceiling of the sistine chapel in rome. It took four year to paint the frescoes and complete the work from 1508 to 1512. Commissioned by pope julius ii michelangelo worked on the vault of the chapel. The sistine chapel is named after pope sixtus iv who had it built in 1477.

The walls of the chapel had already received decoration from some of the greatest of renaissance artists but in four years of toil michelangelo would outshine them all with his ambition and technical skill producing one of the defining works of western art of any century. On the ceiling of the church in west sussex left is the world s only hand painted replica of the famous artwork in the sistine chapel in the vatican city rome italy right this unassuming. It already contained distinguished wall paintings and michelangelo was asked to add works for the relatively unimportant ceiling.

By michelangelo buonarroti in the center part of the ceiling right above our heads almost as a warning michelangelo describes the history of humanity from creation to fall. The way to salvation is clear man has only to choose. The work made by michelangelo changed the course of western art.

The ceiling of the sistine chapel the sistine chapel had great symbolic meaning for the papacy as the chief consecrated space in the vatican used for great ceremonies such as electing and inaugurating new popes. The chapel was built in 1479 under the direction of pope sixtus iv who gave it his name sistine derives from sixtus. In 1508 ce the pope commissioned the celebrated florentine sculptor and painter michelangelo 1475 1564 ce to paint scenes on the ceiling of the vatican s sistine chapel.

The sistine chapel is one of the most famous painted interior spaces in the world and virtually all of this fame comes from the breathtaking painting of its ceiling from about 1508 1512. In 1505 his nephew giuliano di medici pope julius ii then asked michelangelo to decorate the special room.