Sixtine
Americanadjective
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Walls and towers encircled the Leonine City where the Pope sat unquietly in the big battlemented donjon by the Sixtine Chapel; and in its midst was still old St. Peter's, half Lombard, half Byzantine.
From Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion by Lee, Vernon
In the last century Bottari, having read about it in Vasari, set to work to find it, and at last got into it through the window which looks upon the roof of the Sixtine Chapel.
From Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
While still occupied here, he was summoned to Rome by Pope Sixtus IV. to paint in the Sixtine chapel; he went thither in 1483.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" by Various
Sixtine deals with the adventures of a masculine brain.
From Unicorns by Huneker, James
Gourmont now achieved a single English reader, for Sixtine was read by Henry James, but with more curiosity than approval.
From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund
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