sistine chapel ceiling restoration

Detail view of the Sistine Chapel InteriorThe rather nondescript Sistine Chapel is undoubtedly the most famous structure in the Vatican--which enjoys around four million visitors each year. Completed in 1481 by Giovanni del Dolci, it is most famous for its amazing... The most important artworks there are the frescoes by Michelangelo on the ceiling and on the west wall behind the altar. Art historians have built entire careers on studying the works in the chapel--and...


The Sistine Chapel; Ceiling


The Sistine Chapel restoration


The Sistine Chapel is located


Sistine Chapel ceiling


Sistine Chapel Ceiling


Sistine Chapel Ceiling

Known as the “Sistine Chapel of the Philippines” because of the ceiling paintings, which was done in 1939 by Macario Ligon and his teenage assistant Victor Ramos, who restored the paintings in the 70s. The San Guillermo...
Philippine Church Series: Betis Church and San Guillermo Parish ...

Her minimal and straightforwardly necessary conservation measure was to mushroom, in parallel with the restorations of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes, which began in 1980, and Masaccio's Brancacci...
sistine chapel ceiling restoration