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It was on view at Mexico City from 1 June to 15 July 2016. It took 2.6 million high definition photographs to reproduce the totality of the frescoes and tapestries. [33] A video of the history of the chapel is shown to the visitors before entering the building; inside, a light-and-sound demonstration explains the content of each of the frescoes.
The Basilica of Santa María de Guadalupe, officially called Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Santa María de Guadalupe (in English: Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe) is a basilica of the Catholic Church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary in her invocation of Our Lady of Guadalupe, located at the foot of the Hill of Tepeyac in the Gustavo A. Madero borough of Mexico City.
The choirloft of the Sistine Chapel in the early 17th century, depicted by Agostino Tassi (here in a 1848 copy by Ingres).. The Sistine Chapel Choir, as it is generally called in English, or officially the Coro della Cappella Musicale Pontificia Sistina in Italian, is the Pope's personal choir.
[2] [3] [4] The current complex was built in the 1540s, beginning with the Capilla Real in 1540. [5] The main church was begun in 1549, with the first stone laid by Martín de Hojacastro, who would become the third bishop of Puebla. [6] There is also a third chapel by the name of the Capilla de la Tercera Orden and a cloister. [4]
The Old Basilica of Guadalupe is a Roman Catholic building in Monterrey, Nuevo León state, México. [1] It is located in the metropolitan area, just outside the city's downtown. Francisco de Paula Verea y González de Hermosillo, Bishop of Linares, had a great devotion to the Virgin of Tepeyac.
The cathedral is built using adobe, yellow stone quarry and tezontle, a volcanic rock typically red in color, that is commonly used in Mexico . [6] The interior of the cathedral has altars that are dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption , Our Lady of Guadalupe , Our Lady of Sorrows, Our Lady of Zapopan ( patron saint of Guadalajara), Saint ...
The Sistine Chapel of Football (also known as "The Creation of Football") is an artwork exhibited at the Sportivo Pereyra club from Barracas in Buenos Aires, Argentina.It honors the two greatest Argentine footballers, Lionel Messi and Diego Maradona, as well as other notable Argentine players including Juan Román Riquelme, Gabriel Batistuta, Mario Kempes, Sergio Agüero, Claudio Caniggia ...
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