Sistine Chapel

• “Although Michelangelo Buonarroti is perhaps best known for his paintings of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, he always considered himself a sculptor, and primarily a sculptor of marble.”

  Simon & Schuster: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

• “Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel and of Raphael in the Stanze, the”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent

• “They do the rounds dutifully; the Vatican Museum with the Sistine Chapel at its end like a prize for endurance; the Forum, the Colosseum, the Appian Way, the Spanish Steps, the greedy Trevi Fountain, the son et lumière.”

  The Thorn Birds

• “When the great Michelangelo Buonarroti unveiled his painting of the Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in 1541, it was by far the largest single painting of its time.”

  Simon & Schuster: Unpretty

• “Sunday, in the Sistine Chapel undoubtedly left an indelible impression upon Gounod's imagination and memory; still he does not seem to have penetrated to the life from which they sprang and the spirit which animated them, that is the spirit of the Church and her liturgy.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI

• “At St. Peter's and the Sistine Chapel religious earnestness and dignity were frittered away in pretty part-singing, in mere frivolity and meretricious show.”

  The Great Italian and French Composers

• “Sistine Chapel fresco the scholar Argyropolous, etc. Behind these living persons it is Florence itself which forms the background of the scene, that admirable city of the end of the fifteenth century in which Botticelli, Leonardo, Angelo Poliziano, and the young Michelangelo were then living.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI

• “Not only were the most daring works of architecture entrusted to him, but all other important building operations, and, in general, all artistic undertakings depended on his initiative and approbation, as the painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and of the loggie and the stanze, or halls, of the Vatican.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne

• “At Rome Mozart attended the Sistine Chapel and wrote the score of Allegri's great mass, forbidden by the pope to be copied, from the memory of a single performance.”

  The Great German Composers

• “I vaguely hoped for this universal comity when I stood in Stonehenge, on the Acropolis in Athens, or in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.”

  Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes

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