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Detail of Sistine Chapel fresco Creation of the Sun and Moon by Michelangelo (completed 1512).
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Detail of Sistine Chapel fresco Creation of the Sun and Moon by Michelangelo (completed 1512).

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The Sistine Chapel is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the Pope, in the Vatican City. Its fame rests on its architecture, which evokes Solomon's Temple of the Old Testament, its decoration, frescoed throughout by the greatest Renaissance artists, including Michelangelo whose ceiling is legendary, and its purpose, as a site of papal religious and functionary activity, notably the conclave, at which a new Pope is selected.



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