where is the sistine chapel by michelangelo?
Rome
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 The Sistine Chapel was built by Pope Sixtus IV within the Vatican immediately to the north of St. Peter 's Basilica and completed in about 1481 . Its walls were decorated by a number of Renaissance painters who were among the most highly regarded artists of late 15th century Italy , including Ghirlandaio , Perugino , and Botticelli . The Chapel was further enhanced under Pope Julius II by the painting of the ceiling by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512 and by the painting of the Last Judgment , commissioned by Pope Clement VII and completed in 1541 , again by Michelangelo . The tapestries on the lowest tier , today best known from the Raphael Cartoons ( painted designs ) of 1515 – 16 , completed the ensemble . 

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 The Sistine Chapel ceiling , painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512 , is a cornerstone work of High Renaissance art . 

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 Work on the chapel began in 1563 and continued over the next two decades . Primaticcio died in 1570 , and the architect Jean Bullant took over the project two years later . After Bullant 's death in 1578 , Baptiste du Cerceau led the work . The building was abandoned in 1585 . Over two hundred years later , in 1793 , a mob tossed Catherine and Henry 's bones into a pit with the rest of the French kings and queens . 

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 The Doni Tondo or Doni Madonna , sometimes called The Holy Family , is the only finished panel painting by the mature Michelangelo to survive . Now in the Uffizi in Florence , Italy , and still in its original frame , the painting was probably commissioned by Agnolo Doni to commemorate his marriage to Maddalena Strozzi , the daughter of a powerful Tuscan family . The painting is in the form of a tondo , or round frame , which is frequently associated during the Renaissance with domestic ideas . 

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 The ceiling 's various painted elements form part of a larger scheme of decoration within the Chapel , which includes the large fresco The Last Judgment on the sanctuary wall , also by Michelangelo , wall paintings by several leading painters of the late 15th century including Sandro Botticelli , Domenico Ghirlandaio and Pietro Perugino , and a set of large tapestries by Raphael , the whole illustrating much of the doctrine of the Catholic Church . 
