16+ Book Michelangelo, The Sistine Chapel Images. He has written a number of acclaimed books on subjects ranging from medieval painting and sculpture to the art of the present, including caravaggio: The sistine chapel ceiling (italian:

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Michelangelo completed the sistine chapel in 1512. The fresco is a part of a complex iconographic scheme and is chronologi.cally the fourth in the series of panels. Its fame rests on its the sistine chapel is considered to be the greatest artistic creation in the history of mankind.

Michelangelo never wanted to paint the sistine chapel ceiling.

Volta della cappella sistina), painted by michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, is a cornerstone work of high renaissance art. See more of michelangelo's sistine chapel: Some scholars see the representation of a brain in the cloak that surrounds god. 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 the chapel was built in 1479 under the direction of pope sixtus iv, who gave it his name (sistine derives from sixtus).