The Two Ceilings

The original Sistine Chapel ceiling has around 50 identifiable characters and 300 characters in total included in 9 creation events and scenes from the life of Noah and 10 minor events depicted in small monochrome relief panels.

The original Sistine Chapel ceiling is barrel vaulted with small cross vaults over the side windows, this form is mimicked in the architectural devices used to divide up the ceiling – columns and caryatids. Interspersed amongst these are numerous anonymous naked or semi-draped male figures.

Size of Sistine chapel: 40x130 ft, 12x39.6m

Our ceiling in the Italian villa "Casa Bella Fonte" is 4.3 x 13m, so around one third the size of the original but of similar proportions.
Sistine Chapel – 1:3.25, Casa Bella Fonte - 1:3

Visit our website for more information on the villa and the region at:

http://www.vacanzaitalia.co.uk

Spooky but true.
The original Sistine Chapel is named after Pope Sisto IV for whom the chapel was built. The Atheist Ceiling will be painted in an Italian villa in Montalto della Marche which was the home town of Pope Sisto V!