Sistine
['sisti:n;-tain]
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to Pope Sixtus.
Typist: Sonia
Definition
adj. pertaining to a pope of the name of Sixtus esp. Sixtus IV. (1471-84) and Sixtus V. (1585-90)—also Six′tine.—Sistine Chapel the Pope's chapel in the Vatican built in 1473 by Sixtus IV. covered with magnificent frescoes by Michael Angelo and the great Florentine masters; Sistine Madonna or Madonna of San Sisto a famous painting by Raphael Santi now at Dresden representing the Virgin and Child in glory St Sixtus on the left St Barbara on the right and two cherubs below.
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