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Sistine Chapel
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Sistine Chapel a chapel in the Vatican, built in the late 15th century by Pope
Sixtus IV, for whom it is named, containing a painted ceiling and fresco of the Last Judgement by Michelangelo and also frescoes by Botticelli and other painters. It is used for the principal papal ceremonies and also by the cardinals when meeting for the election of a new pope.
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 "Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)")
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Spraypainting the Sistine Chapel (in Iowa)
Transcript from: Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR); 11/4/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...04-2006 Spraypainting the Sistine Chapel (in Iowa) Host: LYNN NEARY...Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in four years. Paco Rosic...a half-scale replica of the Sistine Chapel ceiling using spray paint. You...
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Sistine Chapel's Chimney Scrutinized
News Wire article from: AP Online; 4/14/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...blown out of the chimney of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, symbolizing the...trail of smoke snaked up from the Sistine Chapel a half century ago. "White...running up through a window in the Sistine Chapel. In one of the Roman Catholic...
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Sistine Chapel's Chimney Scrutenized
News Wire article from: AP Online; 4/14/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...blown out of the chimney of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, symbolizing the...trail of smoke snaked up from the Sistine Chapel a half century ago. "White...running up through a window in the Sistine Chapel. In one of the Roman Catholic...
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Sistine Chapel Is Home of Papal Election
News Wire article from: AP Online; 4/3/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Cardinals stand in prayer inside the Sistine Chapel after they entered the conclave...frescoes by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel. The Renaissance master...theology of the body." Indeed, the Sistine Chapel is full of nudes _ naked...
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THE VATICAN AND CARRIER CORPORATION INSTALL AN ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL SYSTEM TO PROTECT MICHELANGELO'S SISTINE CHAPEL FRESCOES
PR Newswire; 6/4/1993; 700+ words
; ...control system for the Sistine Chapel designed by Carrier Corporation...system will protect the Sistine Chapel's newly restored...before it entered the chapel. In addition, given...after being ducted up the Sistine Chapel's outside wall...
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 "The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)")
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SPRAYPAINT MICHELANGELO\ PACO ROSIC'S SISTINE CHAPEL IS DONE IN KRYLON.(Living)
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); 11/23/2006; 700+ words
; ...Michelangelo's fresco on the Sistine Chapel ceiling -- in his own street style...started, he carried a sketch of the Sistine Chapel ceiling onto the scaffolding...course I've seen pictures of the Sistine Chapel. This is probably the closest...
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Sistine Chapel Has False Floor, Stove
News Wire article from: AP Online; 4/16/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...VATICAN CITY Doors open into the Sistine Chapel prepared for the upcoming conclave...hold closed-door meetings in the Sistine Chapel, decorated by Michelangelo...Cito, pool) A false floor in the Sistine Chapel hides the jamming devices...
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The Sistine Chapel restored.
Magazine article from: Interior Design; 10/1/1984; ; 700+ words
; ...behind a sixty-foot curtain in the Sistine Chapel on an elaborate construction of...areas above the windows of the Sistine Chapel which include Michelangelo...contract to the Japanese. The Sistine Chapel was the Pope's personal...
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 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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CARDINALS HUDDLE IN SISTINE CHAPEL TO CHOOSE NEW POPE; THEY CAST ONE BALLOT TODAY; WHITE SMOKE, BELLS WILL SIGNAL DECISION.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 4/18/2005; 700+ words
; ...s historic biblical art in the Sistine Chapel today to begin the process of selecting...will rise from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel. Bells will also ring to...countless security sweeps through the Sistine Chapel and other Vatican grounds...
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Workers scale chimney of Sistine Chapel as housekeepers take oath of secrecy
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 4/16/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...workers scaled the roof of the Sistine Chapel and attached the chimney pipe that...only the cardinals are left in the Sistine Chapel to vote. "It is like the...drivers who will ferry them to the Sistine Chapel and back each day, elevator...
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Sistine Chapel
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sistine Chapel [for Sixtus IV ], private chapel of the popes in Rome, one...completed in 1999. Bibliography: See C. Pietrangeli, The Sistine Chapel (1986); The Sistine Chapel: A Glorious Restoration (1995).
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chapel
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...established private chapels, over which episcopal...possible. The two main chapels at the Vatican are the Pauline Chapel (1540), designed...Paul III, and the Sistine Chapel (1473), built...famous French modern chapels (built in the 1950s...
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Chapel Royal
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Chapel Royal. No one institution...development of Eng. mus. than the Chapel Royal—by which...1461–83) the Chapel consisted of 26 chaplains and...even by the musicians of the Sistine Chapel at Rome; they developed...
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Michelangelo
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
...and on for the next forty years. Sistine Chapel In 1508 Pope Julius II commissioned...the chief Vatican chapel, the Sistine. The traditional format of ceiling...prophets and their attendants in the Sistine ceiling. Julius's death in 1513...
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Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564)
Book article from: The Renaissance
...on the ceiling and walls of the Sistine Chapel. The idea for this project was...first reluctant to undertake the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Michelangelo finally...top of a wooden scaffold. The Sistine Chapel ceiling was a magnificent...
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