Sistine Chapel

Our guide races us through Vatican City -- the palaces, art gallery, the museum of antiquities, the map room, and the Sistine Chapel, which is packed like a subway station.

Peggy Siegal: My Roman Holiday with Valentino 2008

At the end of that time, then, the cardinals will process into the Sistine Chapel, which is this magnificent chapel inside the Apostolic Palace with these enormous frescoes by Michelangelo, especially, of course, that famous one of the Last Judgment.

CNN Transcript Oct 18, 2003 2003

With the building by Sixtus IV (1471-84) of the church for the celebration of all papal functions since known as the Sistine Chapel, the original schola cantorum and subsequent capella pontificia or capella papale, which still retains more or less of the guild character, becomes the capella sistina, or Sistine Choir, whose golden era takes its beginning.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

The Sistine Chapel is the palatine and court chapel, where all papal ceremonies and functions and papal elections are held.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

The Sistine Chapel is the oldest structure and was used for protection taking 100 and something years to build.

TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

I am even out of humor with pictures; a bit of broken stone or a fragment of a bas-relief, or a Corinthian column standing out against this lapis-lazuli sky, or a tremendous arch, are the only things I can look at for the moment, -- except the Sistine Chapel, which is as gigantic as the rest, and forces itself upon you with equal might. "

The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 Emma Lazarus 1868

I am even out of humor with pictures; a bit of broken stone or a fragment of a bas-relief, or a Corinthian column standing out against this lapis-lazuli sky, or a tremendous arch, are the only things I can look at for the moment, -- except the Sistine Chapel, which is as gigantic as the rest, and forces itself upon you with equal might. "

The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations Emma Lazarus 1868

It is like describing the Sistine Chapel as smears of paint, or The Economist as pre-cycled future toilet paper.

Vamsee Juluri: Lord Shiva And The Economist: A New Low For Journalism Vamsee Juluri 2011

Do you imagine the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, where the outstretched hand of Michelangelo's God who looks like someone's muscular grandfather! reaches toward Adam?

Jeffrey Small: Moving Beyond A Human Image Of God Jeffrey Small 2011

Do you imagine the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, where the outstretched hand of Michelangelo's God who looks like someone's muscular grandfather! reaches toward Adam?

Jeffrey Small: Moving Beyond A Human Image Of God Jeffrey Small 2011