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  2. Sistine Chapel - Wikipedia

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    [10] The Sistine Chapel has maintained its function to the present day and continues to host the important services of the Papal Calendar, unless the Pope is travelling. There is a permanent choir, the Sistine Chapel Choir, for whom much original music has been written, the most famous piece being Gregorio Allegri's Miserere. [11]

  3. Apostolic Palace - Wikipedia

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    Perhaps the best known of the palace chapels is the Sistine Chapel named in honor of Sixtus IV (Francesco della Rovere). It is famous for its decoration that was frescoed throughout by Renaissance artists including Michelangelo , Sandro Botticelli , Pietro Perugino , Pinturicchio , Domenico Ghirlandaio , and others.

  4. Tourism in Vatican City - Wikipedia

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    No picture taking is allowed inside of the Sistine Chapel, but online the Vatican offers a 3D model of the inside of the Chapel. During the summer, approximately 20,000 people go through the Sistine Chapel per day, but limitations are being contemplated since some do not abide the rules of silence and no picture taking inside the chapel. [10]

  5. Sistine Chapel ceiling - Wikipedia

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    The Sistine Chapel ceiling (Italian: Soffitto della Cappella Sistina), painted in fresco by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, is a cornerstone work of High Renaissance art. The Sistine Chapel is the large papal chapel built within the Vatican between 1477 and 1480 by Pope Sixtus IV , for whom the chapel is named.

  6. Sala Regia (Vatican) - Wikipedia

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    At the end of the hall is the entrance to the Pauline Chapel. The Sala Regia (Regal Room) is a state hall in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City. Although not intended as such, this broad room is really an antechamber to the Sistine Chapel. It also connects to the Pauline Chapel and is reached by the long staircase known as the Scala Regia.

  7. Cappella Paolina - Wikipedia

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    The restoration work was finished in 2009 [8] and during the 2013 conclave the cardinal-electors assembled in the Pauline Chapel to begin their procession into the Sistine Chapel. [10] The Pauline Chapel was also the venue where the non-cardinal officials, support staff and other personnel who had duties in the 2013 conclave took their oath of ...

  8. Gianluigi Colalucci - Wikipedia

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    Colalucci began working with the Vatican in 1960, and between 1980 and 1994 led the restoration of the Sistine Chapel frescoes, directing a team of twelve, [4] and removing centuries of smoke, dust, glue, varnishes, and wine which had dulled the frescoes, [5] [1] [2] as well as allowing art historians to visit the chapel during this work and ...

  9. Restoration of the Sistine Chapel frescoes - Wikipedia

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    The ceiling before the restoration [c]. The preliminary experimentation for the modern restoration began in 1979. The restoration team comprised Gianluigi Colalucci, Maurizio Rossi, Piergiorgio Bonetti, and others, [6] who took as their guidelines the Rules for restoration of works of art as established in 1978 by Carlo Pietrangeli, director of the Vatican's Laboratory for the Restoration of ...