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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 51. Chapters: 1510 works, 1510s architecture, 1510s paintings, 1512 works, 1513 works, 1514 works, 1515 works, 1517 works, 1518 works, Sistine Chapel ceiling, Durer's Rhinoceros, Piri Reis map, Raphael Cartoons, Sistine Madonna, Separation of Light from Darkness, The Ninety-Five Theses, Atik Mustafa Pasha Mosque, Melencolia I, Knight, Death and the Devil, Triumphal Arch, Assumption of the Virgin, Sheffield Manor, Globus Jagellonicus, Bridewell Palace, Madonna of Foligno, Sacred and Profane Love, Via Giulia, Transfiguration, Egerton 1782, Self-portrait, The Ugly Duchess, Julius Excluded from Heaven, San Pietro Martire, Portrait of Tommaso Inghirami, San Salvador, Venice, St. John the Baptist, Dunskey Castle, Santa Maria in Domnica, Saint Jerome in His Study, La fornarina, Lugano Cathedral, Thornbury Castle, Apostolici Regiminis, Stuppach Madonna, Portrait of Bindo Altoviti, Hortulus Animae, Immaculate Conception with Saints, Granada Charterhouse, Portrait of Leo X, Christ Falling on the Way to Calvary, 1510s in architecture, Perseus Freeing Andromeda, The Coronation of Charlemagne, The Oath of Leo III, Fort Santo Antonio, Madonna of the Harpies, St. Quentin, St. Mark Enthroned, Klaudyan map of Bohemia, Self-portrait with a friend, Cio ek's Missal, The Golden Ass. Excerpt: The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, at the commission of Pope Julius II, is one of the most renowned artworks of the High Renaissance. The ceiling is that of the large Papal Chapel built within the Vatican between 1477 and 1480 by Pope Sixtus IV after whom it is named the Sistine Chapel. The chapel is the location for Papal Conclaves and many important services. The ceiling's various painted elements form part of a larger scheme of decoration within the Chapel, which includes the large fresco The Last Judgment on the sanctua...
