Example sentences for: sistine

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

  • But nothing can prepare you for the visual shock of the Sistine Chapel (Cappella Sistina), built for Sixtus IV in the 15th century.

  • Vasari's account of Michelangelo's heroic labors in the Sistine Chapel has entered popular lore.

  • The true father of Rome’s High Renaissance, Pope Julius II (1503–1513) began the new St. Peter’s cathedral, and commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel and Raphael to decorate the Stanze.

  • If you want at all costs to avoid the Sistine’s day-long crowds, go there first thing in the morning (don’t forget your binoculars for details on the ceiling).

  • These have a public purpose, captured in the Irish poet William Butler Yeats' lines about the best-known Sistine image: "That girls at puberty may find/ The first Adam in their thought."


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