There are no sculptures in the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo painted the ceiling and the altar of the Sistine Chapel.
I am elderly but not in a wheelchair. I need to know how many stairs are there to climb to reach the sistine chapel ceiling view?
The Sistine Chapel was constructed from 1477 to1480 at the Apostolic Palace of Vatican City. Many famous painters decorated its walls with beautiful paintings which were finished by 1482. One of these famous painters was Michelangelo, who decorated its ceiling between 1508 and 1512.
there are no statues in the Sistine chapel.
It is one large room.
The Sistine Chapel, designed by Michelangelo, took almost eleven years to build (1473 to 1484) under the supervision of Giovannino de Dolci for Pope Sixtus IV. Find out more about the Sistine Chapel at http://vaticanart.net/painting-of-the-sistine-ceiling
The Sistine Chapel is one of many found in the Vatican but the most famous.
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It has no specific name. The ceiling is a series of scenes from the Old Testament plus a great number of separate figures. Some art historians call it a many-faceted subject, the world in the morning of time. He also painted a wall in the chapel named the 'Last Judgement'.
There are many famous chapels in Rome. The most famous one is the Sistine Chapel.
Impossible to say, but at present there are 4 million visitors a year!