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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: Interior of the Sistine Chapel

🖼 Interior of the Sistine Chapel, 1475-83, 1508-12, 1535-41
Frescoes
Vatican, Italy

Soaring vault and pendentives showcase frescoed biblical narratives rendered in bold Renaissance anatomy and perspective. Michelangelo's ceiling revolutionized Western art, establishing the chapel as Christianity's artistic apex and defining humanistic ideals through divine imagery.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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