These groups were for long the most frequently painted ; works such as Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling are therefore history paintings, as are most very large paintings before the 19th century.

The important wall paintings in the Chapel and the brick north range of the present School Yard also date from the 1480s ; the lower storeys of the cloister, including College Hall, had been built between 1441 and 1460.

The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art in Winter Park, Florida houses the world's most comprehensive collection of the works of Louis Comfort Tiffany, including Tiffany jewelry, pottery, paintings, art glass, leaded-glass windows, lamps, and the Tiffany Chapel he designed for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo, the most famous painting found at the Sistine Chapel and also one of the most famous paintings in the world.

These paintings were completed in 1482, and on 15 August 1483, Sixtus IV celebrated the first mass in the Sistine Chapel for the Feast of the Assumption, at which ceremony the chapel was consecrated and dedicated to the Virgin Mary.

He found inspiration in the paintings of the abstract expressionists, and throughout the 1970s wrote a number of pieces around twenty minutes in length, including Rothko Chapel ( 1971, written for the building of the same name, which houses paintings by Mark Rothko ) and For Frank O ' Hara ( 1973 ).

His increasing adeptness at this method is apparent in the paintings completed for the Chapel.

" Rothko ’ s comment on viewers breaking down in tears before his paintings that may have convinced the De Menils to construct the Rothko Chapel.

In the Tower: Mark Rothko, an exhibit featuring Rothko's 1964 black-on-black paintings from Rothko Chapel.

For others, the Chapel houses 14 large paintings whose dark, nearly impenetrable surfaces represent hermeticism and contemplation.

Rothko never saw the completed Chapel and never installed the paintings.

Some few remains of the original buildings may still be traced in the city walls outside the Gate of St. John, and a large wall decorated with paintings was uncovered in the 18th century within the basilica itself, behind the Lancellotti Chapel.

Masaccio completed several panel paintings but is best known for the fresco cycle that he began in the Brancacci Chapel with the older artist Masolino and which had profound influence on later painters, including Michelangelo.

Many of the greatest paintings in Europe, like Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling are executed in fresco, meaning they are painted on a thin layer of wet plaster, called intonaco ( in fact the general term for plaster in Italian ); the pigments sink into this layer so that the plaster itself becomes the medium holding them, which accounts for the excellent durability of fresco.

Grey's unique series of 21 life-sized paintings, the Sacred Mirrors ( soon to be on display at the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in Wappinger, NY ), takes the viewer on a journey toward their own divine nature by examining, in detail, the body, mind, and spirit.

Houston turned down the gift and the de Menils then donated the sculpture and the Rothko paintings to start the Rothko Chapel.

Along with Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper, The Creation of Adam and the other Sistine Chapel panels are the most replicated religious paintings of all time.

It houses a ciborium and some angels by Mino da Fiesole, a notable wood Deposition ( 1228 ), a masterwork of Romanesque sculpture and the Sacrament Chapel, with paintings by Santi di Tito, Giovanni Balducci and Agostino Veracini.

His most ambitious work was the consequence of his Great War experiences: a cycle of 19 wall paintings for the Sandham Memorial Chapel ( see above ), which took five years to complete.

The ceiling's various painted elements form part of a larger scheme of decoration within the Chapel, which includes the large fresco The Last Judgment on the sanctuary wall, also by Michelangelo, wall paintings by several leading painters of the late 15th century including Sandro Botticelli, Domenico Ghirlandaio and Pietro Perugino, and a set of large tapestries by Raphael, the whole illustrating much of the doctrine of the Catholic Church.

The Capella del Rosario ( Chapel of the Rosary ), built in 1582 to commemorate the victory of Lepanto, contained paintings by Tintoretto, Palma the Younger, Titian and Giovanni Bellini, among others, but they were destroyed in a fire in 1867 attributed to anti-Catholic arsonists.

The former sanctuary has been converted into the Blessed Sacrament Chapel, which has paintings on its walls.

' A ' and ' B ' blocks, housing the History, Classics and Drama departments, as well as administrative offices, the Library and the Chapel, take up much of these 3 sides ; the remaining rooms consist of priests ' apartments, abandoned dormitories and the Upper Study Hall.

Replacing an earlier undistinguished 18th century church that suffered structural problems through being built on soft ground close to the site of the original castle moat, the new Chapel Royal was built using a timber frame to make it as light as possible.

Then he thought of those Old Testament figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

They were married at King's Chapel on May 22, 1830 ; he was 30 years old and she was 29.

In 1880 the school moved to the Hillside Chapel, a building next to the house, where he held conversations and, over the course of successive summers, as he entered his eighties, invited others to give lectures on themes in philosophy, religion and letters.

He went on to remain there in a mansion which he may have extended, although there is no source attesting to any significant building activity at Aachen in his time, apart from the building of the Palatine Chapel in Aachen ( since 1929, cathedral ) and the palatial presentation halls.

Legal scholar Jim Drennan, an expert on the court system at the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, told the Winston-Salem Journal in a 2007 interview that the ability to use this form of guilty plea as an option in courts had a far-reaching effect throughout the United States.

Unveiled on 16 August 1963, a wooden and metal organ in Manning Chapel, Acadia University, is dedicated to Acadia University's war dead of the First World War.

A memorial pipe organ in Convovation Hall, Acadia University is dedicated to the members of Acadia University killed during the First World War A book of remembrance in Manning Chapel, Acadia University was unveiled on 1 March 1998 through the efforts of the Wolfville Historical Society

An example of a highly publicized interventive conservation effort would be the conservation work conducted on the Sistine Chapel.

In his 1990 speech to Kenyon College graduates, Watterson revealed that during his last year he had painted Michelangelo's Creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel on the ceiling of his dorm room:

File: Adam study-Michelangelo. jpg | Michelangelo-Studies of a reclining male nude: Adam in the fresco ' The Creation of Man ' on the vault of the Sistine Chapel ( c. 1511 )

Similarly those of the Palatine Chapel, the Martorana at Palermo, and the cathedral of Cefalù, together with the vast decoration of the cathedral at Monreale, demonstrate the influence of Byzantium on the Norman Court of Sicily in the twelfth century.

There were certainly castrati in the Sistine Chapel choir in 1558, although not described as such: on 27 April of that year, Hernando Bustamante, a Spaniard from Palencia, was admitted ( the first castrati so termed who joined the Sistine choir were Pietro Paolo Folignato and Girolamo Rossini, admitted in 1599 ).

The crusaders investigated the eastern ruins on the site, occasionally excavating through the rubble, and while attempting to reach the cistern, they discovered part of the original ground level of Hadrian's temple enclosure ; they decided to transform this space into a chapel dedicated to Helena ( the Chapel of Saint Helena ), widening their original excavation tunnel into a proper staircase.

After the excavations of the early 1970s, the Armenian authorities converted this archaeological space into the Chapel of Saint Vartan, and created an artificial walkway over the quarry on the north of the chapel, so that the new Chapel could be accessed ( by permission ) from the Chapel of Saint Helena.

Beneath the Calvary and the two chapels there, on the main floor, there is The Chapel of Adam.

To the right of the sepulchre on the southeastern side of the Rotunda is the Chapel of the Apparition which is reserved for Roman Catholic use.

The Persuasions sang the background vocals on “ Crying in the Chapel ” and Cissy Houston provided a backing vocal on “ La La Love You ”.

Wright previously collaborated with Silsbee — accredited as the draftsman and the construction supervisor — on the 1886 Unity Chapel for Wright's family in Spring Green, Wisconsin.

It was subsequently moved to St. Joseph's and in 1978 to the Chapel of St. Francis Xavier on Coloane Island.

In 2006, on the 500th anniversary of his birth, the Xavier Tomb Monument and Chapel on the Shangchuan Island, in ruins after years of neglect under communist rule in China was restored with the support from the alumni of Wah Yan College, a Jesuit high school in Hong Kong.

In most heraldic traditions, a woman does not display a crest, though this tradition is being relaxed in some heraldic jurisdictions, and the stall plate of Lady Marion Fraser in the Thistle Chapel in St Giles, Edinburgh, shows her coat on a lozenge but with helmet, crest, and motto.