The Cappella Paolina (the Pauline Chapel) is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, Vatican City. It is separated from the Sistine Chapel by the Sala Regia. It is not on any of the regular tourist itineraries.
Michelangelo's two frescoes in the Cappella Paolina, The Conversion of Saul and The Crucifixion of St Peter were painted from 1542 to 1549, the height of his fame, but were widely viewed as disappointments and even failures by their contemporary audience. They did not conform to the compositional conventions of the time and the subject-matter is depicted in an unorthodox manner. Despite the importance of the chapel and the significance of their subjects, the frescoes were generally neglected and overlooked in favor of Michelangelo's nearby masterpieces in the Sistine Chapel.[1]
An Italian scholar has recognised Michelangelo's face both in the Saint Paul and Saint Peter paintings by facial superimposition.[2][3]
^Leo Steinberg, Michelangelo's Last Paintings: The Conversion of St Paul and the Crucifixion of St. Peter in the Cappella Paolina, Vatican Palace (New York: Oxford University Press, 1975), 17.
^Sandro Giometti "Michelangelo, Displaying the Invisible" TAU pub.er Todi 2018
^'Michelangelo self-portrait' discovered in restored Vatican fresco, The Times, 2 July 2009.
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the palace, but other parts, such as the Sala Regia (Regal Room) and CappellaPaolina, had long been closed to tourists, though the Sala Regia allowed occasional...
with the handing of the Keys to Saint Peter, although in the Vatican CappellaPaolina Michelangelo paired it with Peter's Crucifixion in the 1540s, perhaps...
the Vatican. This was for the painting of two large frescos in the CappellaPaolina depicting significant events in the lives of the two most important...
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× 260 in) CappellaPaolina, Vatican Palace, Rome The Crucifixion of Saint Peter c. 1546 – 1550 Fresco 625 cm × 662 cm (246 in × 261 in) CappellaPaolina, Vatican...
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Chapel may refer to: CappellaPaolina in the Vatican The CappellaPaolina in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore The CappellaPaolina in the Quirinal Palace...
witch mix The following album was a live recording of a concert at CappellaPaolina del Qurinale, directly transmitted by RadioTre in December 2001 and...
received a papal commission (to contribute a marble relief to the CappellaPaolina of Santa Maria Maggiore) and so moved from Naples to Rome, taking his...
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martyrdom. The precedent already existed for this juxtaposition in the CappellaPaolina at the Apostolic Palace by Michelangelo. Saint Peter and Paul were...
Four or five hours after his death, Paul IV's body was taken to the CappellaPaolina in the Apostolic Palace. It lay in repose, and a choir sang the Office...
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