Comments on: Sistine Chapel https://www.archeoroma.org/sites/sistine-chapel/ Rome tourism promotion: Monuments, Itineraries, Events Wed, 22 Jan 2025 17:16:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Prof. Joseph Forte https://www.archeoroma.org/sites/sistine-chapel/#comment-1294 Wed, 22 Jan 2025 17:16:39 +0000 https://www.archeoroma.org/?post_type=sites&p=1288#comment-1294 Really enjoy your site; Just a small correction. The Duperac engraving clearly shows the Sistine Chapel in its modern form, one can see the Universal or Last Judgment on the altar wall and the transformations of the pavement and tramezzo made in the 16th century. https://www.ibiblio.org/expo/vatican.exhibit/exhibit/e-music/Music_room1.html

I think the inscription can be read: The Sistine Chapel as it is not as it was.

It would be great if we had an illustration of the older building; it may exist in a miniature now in the Musee Conde showing Pope Sixtus attending a mass in a chapel with Gothic windows low down on the walls etc. This would correspond roughly to building built in the late Medieval period, but it might also be imaginative and inaccurate.

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