Example sentences for: sistine

How can you use “sistine” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Adam’s pose in the Creation scene (top left) inspired the Michelangelo figure reaching out to God on the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

  • She wondered why an art expert in the Sistine Chapel said that Michelangelo had used the red ( rosso ) of an egg in his preparation for the frescoes.

  • Ghirlandaio’s 13-year-old apprentice — Michelangelo Buonarroti — must have picked up a few tips for his future commission of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.

  • We wonder how Michelangelo—a stonecutter's son who also came from a rural nowhere—found within himself the vision to see the shape of David in a block of discarded marble or the apolcalyptic fresco of The Last Judgment on the wall of the Sistine Chapel.

  • Artists whose work Picasso is unable to dismiss (not many: he once described the Sistine ceiling as "a vast sketch by Daumier") he cannibalizes.


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