Botticelli's Sistine Chapel frescoes
1481–1482 · Work
Summoned to Rome with Perugino and Ghirlandaio, Botticelli paints scenes of the lives of Moses and Christ on the chapel's walls, a generation before Michelangelo's ceiling.
On these timelines: Painting & Sculpture, Renaissance, Arts and Thoughts, Italy (post-476 CE), Master
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