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Chip Chick on MSNThe Centuries-Old Walls Of A Roman Palace That Once Housed Dozens Of Popes For Hundreds Of Years Were Recently Uncovered In The Piazza San GiovanniSometime between the 4th and 14th centuries, a Roman palace housed dozens of popes for hundreds of years. It existed long ...
Those hoping for a Pope Zosimus II or a Pope Sixtus V will have to wait. Alison Hudson and Duncan Hardy are historians who work at UCF. Share this: Click to share on Facebook ...
The Sistine Chapel takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV della Rovere (who served from 1471 to 1484). He was the pope who had the old Cappella Magna, the previous chapel that sat on the site, ...
To decorate the chapel's ceiling, Michelangelo Buonarroti was the man for the job, being tapped by Pope Julius II (who was Sixtus IV nephew and pope from 1503 to 1531) to do so.
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