Example sentences for: sistine

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • But Phaëthon's fall, like the cascading forms in Michelangelo's Sistine Last Judgment , has its own headlong ecstasy.

  • Annibale Carracci's Ignudo (1597) transforms one of the languorous young male nudes of Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling into a wily, satyr-like character--he could be Shakespeare's Mercutio.


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