page_title: Sistine Chapel
section_title: Architecture and paintings
hierarchical_section_title: Sistine Chapel / Architecture and paintings
caption_attribution_description: Español: Techo de la Capilla Sixtina.English: The ceiling of the Sistine ChapelPortuguês: O tecto da Capela Sistina.Deutsch: die Deckenausmalung der Sixtinischen KapelleРусский: Потолок Сикстинской капеллы
context_page_description: The Sistine Chapel is a large chapel in the Vatican Palace, the place in Italy where the Pope lives. The Chapel was built between 1473 and 1481 by Giovanni dei Dolci for Pope Sixtus IV.
  The Sistine Chapel is the Pope's own chapel. It is used for important Masses and ceremonies. When a pope dies, the College of Cardinals meet in the Sistine Chapel to elect a new pope.
  The Sistine Chapel is famous for its fresco paintings by the Renaissance painter Michelangelo.
context_section_description: The Sistine Chapel is a brick building shaped like a rectangle. The outside is plain, with no decoration and no big door. It has a walk-way near the top, for soldiers. 
  It has six arched windows on its two side walls and a curved ceiling called a barrel vault.
  The inside of the chapel is richly decorated. The floor is of coloured marble. The lower parts of the walls are painted to look like gold and silver cloth.
  The other decorations in the chapel are paintings which tell stories to help people understand about Jesus Christ and about the Roman Catholic Church.
  The middle part of the walls has 12 large paintings called frescoes, done by famous artists in 1481. The artists' names were Domenico Ghirlandaio, Sandro Botticelli, Perugino, Cosimo Rosselli, Pinturicchio, Benedetto Ghirlandaio, Luca Signorelli and Bartolomeo della Gatta.
  The frescoes show stories from the Bible. On the north side, the stories are about the life of Moses. On the south side, they are about the life of Jesus.
  Above the stories, near the windows, are painted pictures of Popes.
caption: The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was painted by Michelangelo.
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