Vatican City · 1473–1481
Sistine Chapel
Where the papal conclave elects.
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Lighting the candles…
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Built for Pope Sixtus IV on the dimensions of Solomon's Temple as given in the Old Testament.
Walls by Botticelli, Perugino, Ghirlandaio; the ceiling (1508–12) and Last Judgment (1536–41) by Michelangelo.
Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (CAPPELLA SISTINA Ceiling.jpg), under its listed licence.
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