Sixtine

American  

[siks-teen, -tin, -tahyn] / ˈsɪks tin, -tɪn, -taɪn /

adjective

1. Sistine.

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Example Sentences

These lesson are recited even where there is no baptismal font, as at the Sixtine chapel.

From The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome by Baggs, Charles Michael

Also that she wrote an article about the Sixtine Chapel for the Revue du Monde Catholique—"a brilliant article: all fireworks, like her speech"; finally, that "she is writing an essay on friendship."

From Franz Liszt by Huneker, James

It is so easy in pose, so splendid in its, perhaps excessive, length of limb, that our thoughts turn involuntarily to the Ignudi in the Sixtine Chapel.

From The Venetian School of Painting by Phillipps, Evelyn March

This is better than the preceding Sixtine edition, A.D.

From Companion to the Bible by Barrows, E. P. (Elijah Porter)

There is no rivalry between his paintings in the Sixtine Chapel and those of the many great artists who have left their work beside his on the same walls.

From Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)