jan 1, 1508 - Sistine Chapel ceiling, 1508 - 1512 painted by Michelangelo by using fresco technique, in which the paint is applied to damp plaster. Michelangelo had been an apprentice in the workshop of Domenico Ghirlandaio, one of the most competent and prolific of Florentine fresco painters, at the time that the latter was employed on a fresco cycle at Santa Maria Novella and whose work was represented on the walls of the Sistine Chapel. Central to the ceiling decoration are nine scenes from the Book of Genesis
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