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Decoration of the Sistine Chapel
 
Sistine Chapel discussion
 
gwynraven
04/22/09
Decoration of the Sistine Chapel
           
 
belanna
04/22/09
replied to: gwynraven
In 1515, Pope Leo X commissioned the artist Raphael to design a series of tapestries to be hung around the lower tier of the walls.
           
 
ignati
04/22/09
replied to: belanna
Two of these tapestries became redundant when Michelangelo painted The Last Judgment on the wall above the altar.