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. |
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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. |
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She smiled, and looked very much like a pink-haired version of the cherubs in Michelangelo's ceiling in the Sistine Chapel. |
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Probably the critics of modern art are nostalgic for beautiful and uplifting art like the Sistine Chapel. |
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Here the view was dominated by a stupendous skyscape, rather like the fanciful ones on the ceiling of the Sistine chapel. |
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Understanding the hidden power of biology to shape our most cherished relationships may banish Cupid to the Sistine ceiling forever. |
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The two-and-a-half hour Mass began with the Vatican's Sistine Choir singing the Gregorian chant, Grant Him Eternal Rest, O Lord. |
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White smoke poured from the Sistine Chapel and bells tolled earlier to announce the conclave had produced a pope. |
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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. |
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One subject he was able to speak about personally was the Sistine Chapel. |
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That would be like saying Beethoven's Ninth is unperformable or the Sistine chapel is unpaintable. |
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The Sistine of Seille Association regularly organises guided tours of the church. |
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In the world of music, the name of Palestrina is infused with legend. Firstly, it evokes the Offices of the Sistine Chapel. |
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The statue sits just outside the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican and the cardinals see it as they come out of the meeting halls. |
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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. |
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He was painting the Sistine Chapel, and he was angry at one of the bishops or cardinals, so he painted him in with donkey ears. |
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Comparing Yellowstone to the Sistine Chapel is the brainchild of an ex-superintendent of Yellowstone Park. |
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Even the Sistine Chapel looks unlikely to make the final shortlist. |
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The major triumphs of the canteen school were the discoveries of moussaka and lasagne, which serve their art perfectly, but the Sistine Chefs have had to try a bit harder. |
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The inside walls were painted in patterns similar to the Sistine ceiling. |
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Black smoke from the roof of the Sistine Chapel signalled that cardinals had failed to elect a new pope in the first ballot of their secret conclave yesterday. |
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Just a day after the enclave gathered to choose the successor to John Paul II, white smoke plumed from the Vatican's Sistine Chapel and the bells pealed across Rome. |
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A virtual Sistine Chapel pavilion is now being planned so that visitors spend less time inside the real one. |
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After his stint at the Sistine Chapel, Palestrina became mæstro di cappella at St. John Lateran, but left this position in 1560 following a disagreement with the chapter over financial matters. |
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It is traversed from morning to night by a stream of visitors making their way to the Sistine Chapel, and the room is flooded with light, as if telling the visitors what the Blessed Eucharist was, and still is today. |
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Botticelli's display, inspired by the curtaining of altarpieces, may, in turn, have prompted Raphael's exploitation of the motif in the Sistine Madonna, with its majestic vision of the cloud-borne Virgin. |
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In his first mass as pope in the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, he had given an unprepared homily, and many of the remarks he made to the cardinals on Friday were also spontaneous. |
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In Rome, a restorer toothbrushed away some candle-grime over God's Sistine Chapel eye to reveal an eyebrow of Groucho Marx proportion. |
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Not only was he protector of the Sistine Chapel Choir, but he was also at the forefront of the late Renaissance shift from medieval polyphony to monody. |
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This position had been instituted by Julius II in 1513 to train Italian musician at a time when the Sistine Chapel was largely represented by singers and composers from Flanders, France and Spain. |
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Peter's Basilica, the Apostolic Palace, the Sistine Chapel, and museums were built, along with various other buildings. |
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Even Michelangelo dimpled Adam's abdomen with a bellybutton on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. |
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The Vatican Museums, incorporating the Sistine Chapel, usually charge an entrance fee. |
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As one gazes up at Michelangelo's Creation of Man on the ceiling of the vault of the Sistine Chapel of St. Peter's in Rome, one sees in Adam a veritable symbol of awakening Renaissance man marvelling at all about him. |
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Michelangelo's nudes in the Sistine Chapel depart from the equilibristic repose of some of his High Renaissance figures. |
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He then secured a post at Santa Maria Maggiore, and also taught singing at the Roman Seminary which was founded in 1563 after the Council of Trent, also supplying the Sistine Chapel. |
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At the end of 1523 Rosso moved to Rome, where his exposure to Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling, the late art of Raphael, and the work of Parmigianino resulted in a radical realignment of his style. |
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The scrutineers sit at a table in the front of the Sistine Chapel by the altar. |
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Lascaux, the Sistine Chapel of prehistory, la Madeleine, Rouffignac and Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, among others, offer an insight into 25,000 years of humanity. |
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But Julius III died soon after and his successor, Marcelllus II, reigned for only three weeks, followed by the more severe Pope Paul IV who insisted on the dismissal of the three married musicians in the Sistine choir. |
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The ceiling of the Sistine chapel is dedicated to the other extreme of history: the beginnings are depicted there, from creation to the fall of the first couple, while prophets and sibyls wait for and announce a saviour. |
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The donation of the Sistine bronzes is considered to be the foundation of Capitoline Museums, since then several works of art, sculpture and paintings of value, were collected in the Capitol. |
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That didn't work out either, as the poor man had a cold and wasn't giving audiences, but I thought the Swiss Guard were charming and the Sistine Chapel outstanding. |
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Experts have called this Preclassic Mayan subterranean complex the Mayan Sistine Chapel because it holds one of the most elaborate creation scenes depicted before the Classic Period. |
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The Sistine Chapel is famous for its frescos, which include works by Perugino, Domenico Ghirlandaio and Botticelli as well as the ceiling and Last Judgment by Michelangelo. |
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Peter's Basilica, the Sistine Chapel and the Vatican Museums. |
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