The Sistine Chapel (In Our Time)
1508 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the astonishing work of Michelangelo (1477-1564) in this great chapel in the Vatican, firstly the ceiling with images from Genesis (of which the image above is a detail) and later The Last Judgement on the altar wall. For the Papacy, Michelangelo's achievement was a bold affirmation of the spiritual and political status of the
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Around 1508
- The Reformation (1517)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Luther's 95 Theses (1517)
- Michelangelo (1475)
- Reign of Henry VIII (1509)
- English Reformation (1533)
- Mughal Empire (1526)
- Sistine Chapel ceiling (1508)
- Martin Luther (1483)
- Mona Lisa (1503)