Sistine Chapel

June 1, 2019
On this day in 1516, Florentine painter Biagio d’Antonio dei Tucci died.

January 29, 2018
Italian painter and draughtsman Giuliano Bugiardini was born in Florence on 29 January 1475.

January 2, 2018
Piero di Cosimo was born on 2 January 1462 in Florence.

December 11, 2017
Bernardino Pinturicchio Died on 11 December 1513 in Siena.

May 17, 2016
The finale of a famed Florentine: Early Renaissance painter Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli, died 17 May 1510.

July 21, 2015
On 21 July 1414, Francesco della Rovere was born near Savona.

October 31, 2014
October 31 marks two important anniversaries for the Sistine Chapel in Rome.

September 3, 2014
A new HVAC system is scheduled to go online at the Sistine Chapel in October 2014.

October 31, 2013
On this day in 1512, Pope Julius II dedicated Michelangelo’s Sistine Ceiling in Rome which shows scenes from Genesis flanked by Old Testament prophets, Roman Sibyls, and the ancestors of Jesus.

August 15, 2013
On this day in 1483, Pope Sixtus IV dedicated the Sistine Chapel to the Assumption of the Virgin , celebrated each year on 15 August.