Excerpt from Compendious Description of the Museums of Ancient Sculpture, Greek and Roman, in the Vatican Palace: With the Addition of the Etruscan and Egyptian Museums of the Tapestries by Raphael and the Chorographical Maps of Italy
His successors Pius II, and Paul II, and others, enlarged the Palace by adding new buildings to the Borgia Halls, so called from Alexander the VI and which, as we shall see, were afterwards deco~ rated with frescoes by Pinturicchio.
To Sixtus IV is due the erection of the Sixtine Chapel, so renowned for its frescoes, exe outed by the most celebrated masters of the time, Signorelli, Botticelli, Rosselli, Perugino and after wards by Michelangelo, who painted the Ceiling and his Last Judgement.
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