NOUN
- the private chapel of the popes in Rome; it was built by and named after Sixtus IV in 1473
How To Use Sistine Chapel In A Sentence
- Computer hackers, electronic bugs and supersensitive microphones threaten to pierce the Vatican's thick walls next week when cardinals gather in the Sistine Chapel to name a papal successor.
- She smiled, and looked very much like a pink-haired version of the cherubs in Michelangelo's ceiling in the Sistine Chapel.
- OK, so I've been saying for a while that I'm going to write an international thriller in which Michelangelo is found to have hidden a secret message in the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or something. Archive 2006-08-01
- White smoke poured from the Sistine Chapel and bells tolled earlier to announce the conclave had produced a pope.
- Just a day after the enclave gathered to choose the successor to John Paul II, white smoke plumed from the Vatican's Sistine Chapel and the bells pealed across Rome.
- HANSEN: Start with a small tourist guide, a primmer, about the Sistine Chapel itself. Composing for the Pope: A Church Music Primer
- Minutes after white smoke began to billow from the Sistine Chapel, bells began to toll. USATODAY.com - German conservative named pope; tells Vatican faithful, 'We go forward'
- The cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are sealed into the Sistine Chapel for a very secret ballot.
- Many visitors consider the Sistine Chapel to be the jewel of the Vatican.
- The word mural tends to evokes specific images, from the cave drawings of the stone age to stylised Egyptian hieroglyphics, or the Michaelangelo frescoes at the Sistine Chapel.
