Michalangelo was a passionate sculptor. But due to the then POPE's insistance, he accepted the assignment to do a massive painting on the cealing of Sistine Chappel - annexing the St.Peters Basillica in Vatican, Rome. Infact, he signed in the painting on the cealing as MICHELANGELO Buonarroti - The Sculptor.
The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, at the commission of Pope Julius II, is one of the most renowned artworks equal only to Leonard Da Vinci's Monolisa. The ceiling of sistine chapel is built within the Vatican between 1477 and 1480 by Pope Sixtus IV after whom it is named the Sistine Chapel. The chapel is the location for Papal Conclaves and many important services
The ceiling's various painted elements comprise part of a larger scheme of decoration within the Sistine Chapel which includes the large fresco The Last Judgment on the sanctuary wall, also by Michelangelo, wall paintings by a team of the most highly regarded painters of the late 15th century including Botticelli and Perugino, and a set of large tapestries by Raphael, the whole illustrating much of the doctrine of the Catholic Church.
When I visited this chapel, there was repeated instructions not to take any photograph or video. But the human spirit with in me made me take this photo.
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