HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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Question
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Which Renaissance artist is credited with painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican?
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Leonardo da Vinc
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Filippo Brunelleschi
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Michelangelo
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Raphael
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Michelangelo completed the Sistine Chapel in 1512. Its importance in the history of art cannot be overstated. It turned into a veritable academy for young painters, a position that was cemented when Michelangelo returned to the chapel twenty years later to execute the Last Judgment fresco on the altar wall.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Sistine Chapel ceiling paintings have come to epitomize the art of the High Renaissance, a period generally considered to have spanned the decades between 1490 and 1530.
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