NEBBIA, Cesare
(b. ca. 1536, Orvieto, d. 1614, ?)

The Dome of the Sistine Chapel

1585-90
Fresco
Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome

The Sistine Chapel in the Santa Maria Maggiore (not to be confused with the more famous Vatican counterpart, the Sistine Chapel) is on a Greek cross plan, faced with marble and topped by a dome decorated with Mannerist paintings by a group of artists, directed by the best known of them, Cesare Nebbia.




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