| The ballot papers are burned in an old stove in the Sistine Chapel, and the smoke emerges from a chimney stack observable from St Peter's Square. |
| It is plainly ridiculous to expect artwork on the order of what one finds on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in ordinary places of commerce. |
| At the same time Pope Julius II commissioned Raphael, he also set Michelangelo to work for four long years painting the 10,000 square foot ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. |
| Probably the critics of modern art are nostalgic for beautiful and uplifting art like the Sistine Chapel. |
| White smoke poured from the Sistine Chapel and bells tolled earlier to announce the conclave had produced a pope. |
| God's being is not a static reality from which we are disjoined, something we can admire only from afar like the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. |
