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- Popes: 1417-Present
 Cappella Sistina, Santa Maria Maggiore Rome is home not to one, but two Sistine Chapels!
The Sistine Chapel that everyone has heard of was built by Pope Sixtus IV (r. 1471-84), and is famous across the world for its frescoes by Michelangelo. The much less familiar, but no less grand, chapel of the same name is part of the Basilica Papale di Santa Maria Maggiore. The Cappella Sistina was designed for Pope Sixtus V (r. 1585-90) by Domenico Fontana (1543-1607). Decorated with marble panels, statues and stuccoes, it houses the sumptuous tomb of the pontiff, who started his working life as a humble swineherd. Comments are closed.
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My name is David Lown and I am an art historian from Cambridge, England. Since 2001 I have lived in Italy, where I run private walking tours of Rome.
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Fountains
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- Fountain of Moses
- Fountain of Neptune
- Fountains of Piazza Farnese
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- Fountain of the Bees
- Fountain of the Cannonball
- Fountain of the Four Rivers
- Fountain of the Goddess Roma
- Fountain of the Moor
- Fountain of the Naiads
- Fountain of the Pantheon
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- Fountain of the Porter
- Fountains of St Peter's Square
- Fountain of the Seahorses
- Fountain of the Triton
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- Four Fountains
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- Trevi Fountain
- Venice Marries the Sea
-
Churches
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- Lateran Baptistery
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- San Carlo ai Catinari
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- Sant' Antonio dei Portoghesi
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- Sant' Ignazio di Loyola
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- Santa Caterina dei Funari
- Santa Cecilia in Trastevere
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- Santa Maria degli Angeli
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- Santa Maria dell' Orazione e Morte
- Santa Maria dell' Orto
- Santa Maria di Loreto
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- Santa Maria in Cosmedin
- Santa Maria in Domnica
- Santa Maria in Trastevere >
- Santa Maria in Via
- Santa Maria Maddalena
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- Santa Maria sopra Minerva >
- Santa Prassede
- Santa Pudenziana
- Santa Sabina >
- Santa Susanna
- Santi Apostoli
- Santi Cosma e Damiano
- Santi Domenico e Sisto
- Santi Giovanni e Paolo
- Santi Luca e Martina
- Santi Nereo e Achilleo
- Santi Quattro Coronati
- Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio
- Santissima Trinità degli Spagnoli
- Santissima Trinità di Monti
- Santissimo Nome di Maria
- Palatine
- Forum
-
Ancient Monuments
- Aqueducts
- Ara Pacis
- Arch of Constantine
- Arch of the Money-Changers
- Arch of Janus
- Aurelian Walls
- Baths of Caracalla
- Baths of Diocletian
- Castel Sant' Angelo
- Catacombs of Domitilla
- Circus Maxentius
- Circus Maximus
- Colosseum
- Column of Marcus Aurelius
- Column of Trajan
- Forum of Augustus
- Forum of Trajan
- Mausoleum of Augustus
- Nymphaeum
- Pantheon
- Ponte Fabricio
- Ponte Milvio
- Ponte Rotto
- Ponte Sant' Angelo
- Porta Maggiore
- Porta San Paolo
- Porta San Sebastiano
- Portico of Octavia
- Pyramid of Cestius
- Temple of Hadrian
- Temple of Hercules
- Temple of Portunus
- Theatre of Balbus
- Theatre of Marcellus
- Theatre of Pompey
- Tomb of Caecilia Metella
- Via Appia
-
Obelisks
- 'Minerveo' Obelisk
- 'Flaminio' Obelisk
- 'Matteiano' Obelisk
- 'Lateran' Obelisk
- 'Dogali' Obelisk
- 'Macuteo' Obelisk
- 'Solare' Obelisk
- 'Vatican' Obelisk
- 'Agonalis' Obelisk
- 'Sallustiano' Obelisk
- 'Quirinale' Obelisk
- 'Esquiline' Obelisk
- 'Pinciano' Obelisk
- 'Mediceo' Obelisk
- 'Torlonia' Obelisks
- 'Mussolini' Obelisk
- 'Marconi' Obelisk
-
Mosaics
- Gallery
- Palazzi
- Galleries & Museums
- Piazzas
-
Miscellaneous
- A Calendar of Saints
- A Literary Tour
- Antico Caffè Greco
- Art of the Cosmati
- Babington's Tea Rooms
- Borromini & the Baroque
- Catacombs
- Cloisters
- Column of the Immaculate Conception
- Domes
- EUR
- Fascism
- House of the Owls
- Jewish Ghetto
- Jubilee Years
- Knights of Malta
- Mithraism
- Monumental Complex of S. Spirito in Sassia
- Ponte Sisto
- 'Protestant' Cemetery
- Quartiere Coppedè
- Spanish Steps
- 'Talking' Statues
- Tiber Island
- Villa Borghese
- Vittoriano
- Rioni
- On This Day in Italy
-
Pictures from Italy
-
Florence
>
- A Literary Tour
- Anna Maria Luisa: Last of the Medici
- Casa-Galleria Vichi
- Column of Justice
- Column of St Zenobius
- Cosimo I de' Medici
- Cosimo II de' Medici
- Costanza Bonarelli
- David With Fig Leaf
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Equestrian Statue of Cosimo I de' Medici
- Equestrian Statue of Ferdinando I de' Medici
- Festina Lente
- Floods
- Fontana del Bacchino
- Fontana dei Puttini
- Fountain of Neptune
- Fountains of the Marine Monsters
- Gian Gastone de' Medici
- Girolamo Savonarola
- Images of the Annunciation
- Little Devil
- Monument to Cellini
- Palazzo Bartolini-Salimbeni
- Palazzo Bianca Cappello
- Palazzo Fenzi
- Palazzo Viviani
- Perseus and Medusa
- Piazza Santa Maria Novella
- Pope Leo XI
- Porta della Mandorla
- Rape of the Sabine Woman
- Santa Maria Novella
- Canons' Palace
- Statue of Dante
- Theft of the Century
- Torre del Arnolfo
- Twelve Good Men
- Villa Gamberaia
- Wheel of the Innocents
- 'Wine Windows'
- Lazio >
- Tuscany >
-
Venice
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- Ab Urbe Condita
- Acqua Alta
- Bartolomeo Colleoni
- Barque of Dante
- Burano
- Caffè Florian
- Daniele Manin
- Flagpoles
- Giustina Rossi
- Gondolas
- Harry's Bar
- Henry James
- House of Three Eyes
- King Victor Emmanuel II
- Map of Venice
- Martinmas
- Master of the House
- Palazzo Contarini Fasan
- Ponte Borgoloco
- Ponte Chiodo
- Punta del Dogana
- Scacciadiavoli
- Shrine of St Lucia
- Sior Antonio Rioba
- The 'Book Shitter'
- The Lion's Mouth
- Tommaso Rangone
- Torcello
- Venus
- 'Viennese Oranges'
- Wellheads
- Winged Lions
-
Florence
>
- Popes: 1417-Present