Cosimo Rosselli
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Cosimo Rosselli was an Italian painter of the Quattrocento, active mainly in his birthplace of Florence, but also in Pisa earlier in his career and in 1481–82 in the Sistine Chapel in Rome, where he p
Cosimo Rosselli, Portrait of a Man c. 1481–82
Nativity, 1490s. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum.
Handing over the Tablets of the Law, Sistine Chapel
Madonna and Child with Angels, ca 1481. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Sistine Chapel
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The Sistine Chapel is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the pope's official residence in Vatican City. Originally known as the Cappella Magna, it takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV, who had it built b
Cosimo Rosselli
…was an Italian painter of the Quattrocento, active mainly in his birthplace of Florence, but also in Pisa earlier in his career and in 1481–82 in the Sistine Chapel in Rome, where he painted some of the large frescoes on the side walls. Though generally regarded as a lesser talent in comparison to Sandro Botticelli…
East side of the Chapel, from the altar end
The Sistine Chapel as it may have appeared in the 15th century (19th-century drawing)
Exterior of the Sistine Chapel.
A reconstruction of the appearance of the west Wall chapel in the 1480s, prior to the painting of the ceiling.