The other 27 masses could be held in a smaller, less public space, for which the Cappella Maggiore was used before it was rebuilt on the same site as the Sistine Chapel.

The Cappella Maggiore is recorded as existing in 1368.

According to a communication from Andreas of Trebizond to Pope Sixtus IV, by the time of its demolition to make way for the present chapel, the Cappella Maggiore was in a ruinous state with its walls leaning.

The present chapel, on the site of the Cappella Maggiore, was designed by Baccio Pontelli for Pope Sixtus IV, for whom it is named, and built under the supervision of Giovannino de Dolci between 1473 and 1481.

Subsidence and cracking of masonry such as must also have affected the Cappella Maggiore has necessitated the building of very large buttresses to brace the exterior walls.

From the Monastery of Monte Oliveto Maggiore near Siena, Signorelli went to Orvieto, and produced his masterpiece, the frescoes in the chapel of S. Brizio ( then called the Cappella Nuova ), in the cathedral.

* Cappella Colleoni ( Colleoni chapel ), annexed to Santa Maria Maggiore, is a masterwork of Renaissance architecture and decorative art.

His body is buried in Cappella Borghese inside Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome.

* Cappella Paolina in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore ( 1609 )

Nothing definite is known about the beginning or end of his life, but he was employed successively by several Roman churches and chapels: the Cappella Liberiana at the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, the San Luigi dei Francesi, the Cappella Giulia ( the Julian Chapel ) at St Peter's, and Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano.

He won the confidence of Cardinal Montalto, later Pope Sixtus V, who entrusted him in 1584 with the erection of the Cappella del Presepio ( Chapel of the Manger ) in Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, a powerful domical building over a Greek cross.

* Alessandro Scarlatti becomes Maestro di Cappella at Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.

He also participated in the fresco decoration of San Gregorio Magno and of the Cappella Paolina in Santa Maria Maggiore.

He was employed in many considerable works in Rome during the pontificates of Clement VIII and Paul V. His main works are frescoes which can be seen in the Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, in the Cappella Borghese.

The A Cappella Choir was " the first permanent organization of its kind in America.

As of December 2006, the Recorded A Cappella Review Board ( RARB ) had reviewed over 660 a cappella albums since 1994, and its popular discussion forum had over 900 users and 19, 000 articles.

The chapel takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV, who restored the old Cappella Magna between 1477 and 1480.

The first chapel to the left, originally dedicated to the apostles, is now the Cappella di San Francesco Borgia, the former Spanish Duke of Gandia, who renounced his title to enter the Jesuit order, and become its third " Preposito generale ".

In 1996 it was given its North American premiere by Cappella Romana.

The larger Cappella dei Principi, (" Chapel of the Princes "), though proposed in the 16th century, was not begun until the early 17th century, its design being a collaboration between the family and architects.

A Lombard church from the 10th century, it was part of Arechis II's Royal Mansion with the name " Cappella Palatina ".

The name Cappella was first used in the year 1987.

* Giotto, Cappella degli Scrovegni ( Arena Chapel ), Padua

The pigment was mixed with a binding medium like egg and applied over dry plaster ( such as Giotto di Bondone's frescos in the Cappella degli Scrovegni or Arena Chapel in Padua ).

* The Scrovegni Chapel ( Italian: Cappella degli Scrovegni ) is Padua's most famous sight.

The Sistine Chapel is best known for being the location of Papal conclaves ; it is, however, the chapel of the Papal Chapel ( Cappella Pontificia ), one of the two bodies of the Papal household, called until 1968 the Papal Court ( Pontificalis Aula ).

Cappella Palatina ( illustrated ) and Palatine Chapel in Aachen are two most famous palatine chapels of Europe.

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Behind the altar, the panel painting that replicates the original viewing on the Cappella della Sacra Sindone ( Chapel of the Holy Shroud ) with the Altar of Bertola.

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* Scrovegni Chapel also known as Cappella degli Scrovegni, Padua, Veneto, Italy ( 1303 AD )

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* Giotto ( frescoes in Cappella Peruzzi and righthand Cappella Bardi ; possibly Coronation of the Virgin, altarpiece in the Baroncelli Chapel, also attributed to Taddeo Gaddi )

* Adjacent to the Cathedral and built 1480-1483, is the Cappella Sistina ( Sistine Chapel ), containing the Mausoleum erected by the Della Rovere Pope Sixtus IV to honor his parents, Leonardo Della Rovere and Luchina Monleone.

The centre of the nave is dominated by the beautiful freestanding Cappella del Crocefisso ( Chapel of the Crucifix ), designed by Michelozzo in 1448.

Above is the Cappella dei Principi ( Chapel of the Princes ), a great but awkwardly domed octagonal hall where the grand dukes themselves are buried.

He sang as a boy soprano at the Julian Chapel ( the Cappella Giulia ) from 1568 until 1577 ( by which time he was an alto ), and then he sang at another church until 1580.

* Chapel of the pools ( Cappella delle piscine ), dating back to the 15th century and reworked in the 17th century.

He was a painter of frescoes in the Cappella San Giovanni ( Chapel of St. John the Baptist ) in the Duomo of Siena.

Since 1613, it has been located in the altar tabernacle of the Cappella Paolina ( built specifically for it ), known to English-speaking pilgrims as the Lady Chapel.

Each year, hundreds of Collegiate a cappella groups submit their strongest songs in a competition to be on The Best of College A Cappella ( BOCA ), an album compilation of tracks from the best college a cappella groups around the world.

He was Maestro Di Cappella at St. Peter's from 1715 to 1719.

* Giacomo Matteo Ignazio Cirri ( 1711 – 1787 ) was Kapellmeister ( Maestro di Cappella ) in the Cathedral of Forlì, in Italy, from 1759.

* Giovanni Battista Cirri ( 1724 – 1808 ) was Kapellmeister ( Maestro di Cappella ) in the Cathedral of Forlì, in Italy: from 1780, with Ignazio Cirri ; after his death, alone.

" The Cappella Palatina, at Palermo, the most wonderful of Roger's churches, with Norman architecture | Norman doors, Islamic architecture | Saracenic arches, Byzantine architecture | Byzantine dome, and roof adorned with Arabic alphabet | Arabic scripts, is perhaps the most striking product of the brilliant and mixed civilization over which the grandson of the Norman Trancred ruled " ( from EB1911 | 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica ).

A spectacular and famous ( and far from flat ) roof was one of the Islamic components of the 12th century Norman Cappella Palatina in Palermo, which picked from the finest elements of Catholic, Byzantine and Islamic art.

In addition he held a series of prestigious positions as maestro for Basilica dei Santi Apostoli, Rome ( from 1686 ), at St. John Lateran ( from 1708, where Palestrina had served from 1555 to 1560 ), and for the Cappella Giulia at St. Peter ’ s ( from 1719, immediately following Domenico Scarlatti ), and maestro di cappella at the Collegium Germanicum in Rome.

The chapel, Cappella Johannea, is decorated with frescos with themes from the Book of Revelation, executed by the artist Per Vigeland ( 1904-1968 ) in 1932.

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* Maso di Banco ( frescoes in Cappella Bardi di Vernio ) depicting Scenes from the life of St. Sylvester ( 1335 – 1338 ).

In the beginning, they were a Hi-NRG act and the main man behind Cappella was the Italian producer Gianfranco Bortolotti of Media Records, with contributions from the likes of Michele Persona and Mauro Picotto.

Backhouse has received awards from the Contemporary A Cappella Society of America and composer commissions from The Song Company and the Australia Council.

He studied with Giovanni Bernardino Nanino from 27 June 1594 at San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome and then, from 18 January 1597, he was boy soprano of the Cappella Giulia at St Peter.

The Dona Bellas received a score of 100 out of 100 from Deke Sharon, founder and current vice-president of the Contemporary A Cappella Society.