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Sistine, a. and n.|ˈsɪstiːn|
[ad. It. sistino of Sixtus.]
A. adj. Pertaining to Pope Sixtus IV (1471–84); spec. as epithet of the chapel built by him; hence, of or belonging to the Sistine Chapel, as Sistine Madonna, a picture by Raphael originally hung there.
B. n. The Sistine Chapel.
[1769J. Reynolds Discourse delivered at Opening of Royal Academy 5 On the sight of the Capella Sistina, he [sc. Raphael] immediately..assumed that grand style of painting. ]1771C. Burney Pres. State Music in France & Italy p. vi, The Pope's chapel is sometimes called the Sistine chapel, from Sextus Quintus, who built it. 1863J. A. Symonds Let. 19 Dec. (1967) I. 435 The Sistine Chapel too gains everything by being seen in the original. 1869‘Mark Twain’ Innoc. Abroad xxvii. 288 He has shown us the great picture in the Sistine Chapel..by Michael Angelo. 1885Encycl. Brit. XIX. 64/1 San Sisto..lost its chief attraction when Raphael's Sistine Madonna (now in Dresden) was sold by the monks. 1887‘J. Oldcastle’ Leo XIII vi. 36 The conclave assembled to-day in the Sistine. 1889Grove Dict. Mus. IV. 122/1 The traditions of the Sistine Choir. 1920W. B. Yeats Michael Robartes & Dancer 2 While Michael Angelo's Sistine roof His ‘Morning’ and his ‘Night’ disclose How sinew that has been pulled tight,..Can rule by supernatural right. 1950New Yorker 25 Feb. 82/3 In the vesper Mass, the Sistine's famous boy sopranos let loose their voices. 1968A. Diment Bang Bang Birds x. 182 All I could hear was a choir singing in the Sistine Chapel. 1975‘R. Player’ Let's talk of Graves iii. 81 The Czar Nicholas the First..was kneeling in the Sistine. Ibid. 82 The clouds of Sistine incense around the yellow tapers. 1977R. L. Wolff Gains & Losses ii. 131 Guy [Morville]..looks like one of the angels in the Sistine Madonna. |