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The Sistine Chapel, dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption, was originally known as the Cappella Magna, which dated to 1377. The chapel takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV, who restored it between 1477 and 1480. The Pope entrusted the rennovation work to Giovanni de' Dolci and Baccio Pontelli .
- Vault of The Sistine Chapel
- Mural Frescoes
- Barrier
- The Tapestries
The vault was built between 1508 and 1512 by Michelangelo Buonarroti. It is considered to be one of the greatest masterpieces of art of all time. Tell the “Stories of Jesus and Moses” before the latter received the “tables of the law”. Given the importance of this work, we will devote an entire study shortly.
The frescoes in the Sistine Chapel follow the rhythmicity of the windows that divide the space. The frescoes can be divided into three different registers: 1. Lower: fake curtains on which Raphael’s tapestries were installed 2. Intermediate: “Stories of Moses and Aaron on the south wall,” Stories of Jesus “on the north wall 3. Upper, side walls of ...
The environment of the Sistine Chapel is divided on the east-west axis by a marble barrier made by Mino da Fiesole, Andrea Bregno and Giovanni Dalmata. This allows to divide spatially the area destined for religious functions (“Sancta Sanctorum”) from that destined for the faithful. Over the years the position has changed: while before it was towar...
During religious celebrations the first level of the walls of the Sistine Chapel was covered by a series of tapestries commissioned by Pope Leo X, designed by Raphael and made by Flemish artists in the workshop of the famous tapestry maker Pieter van Aelst between 1515 and 1521. These tapestries , five meters wide and four meters high, reproduce st...
The present chapel, on the site of the Cappella Maggiore, was designed by Baccio Pontelli for Pope Sixtus IV, for whom it is named, and built under the supervision of Giovannino de Dolci between 1473 and 1481. The proportions of the present chapel appear to closely follow those of the original.
- 1984
- Roman Catholic
- 20.7 metres (68 ft)
- Vatican City
The chief architect of the project was Giovannino de Dolci, with whom Pontelli is already collaborating on the construction of the Sistine Chapel. Santa Maria del Popolo Baccio Pontelli is the great name of the birth of the Italian Renaissance, an architect who, in just two decades of creativity, left an imprint in the image of the immortal ...
Dec 19, 2019 · The chapel was designed by the architect, Baccio Pontelli under the supervision of Giovanni de Dolci between the years 1475-1480. Despite the magnificent fresco paintings, the chapel itself is fairly simple, measuring over 40 meters in length, over 13 meters in width and over 20 meters in height.
The architectural plans were made by Baccio Pontelli and the construction work was supervised by Giovannino de Dolci between 1473 and 1484, at the orders of Sixtus IV. The first mass in the Sistine Chapel was celebrated on August 9, 1483, as a ceremony by which it was consecrated and dedicated to the Assumption of the virgin Mary.
Mar 24, 2015 · 1475/81 Giovannino de' Dolci (d. about 1486) at the behest of Pope Sixtus IV Della Rovere (1471/84) from a design by Baccio Pontelli (about 1450/92) “ Müntz thought that Dolci was the architect of the chapel, according to an act of payment of 1486 in favor of his son.
