SISTINE CHAPEL 1Kg Silver Set 33 Coins Niue Island 2011

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33 SILVER COIN SET - 1 Kg - SISTINE CHAPEL - NIUE ISLAND 2011 SISTINE CHAPEL 1 Kg SILVER COIN SET - 33 PCS - MINTAGE ONLY 500 PCS WORLDWIDE A coin with incomparable beauty, color and value makes a perfect homage to the "The Sistine Ceiling", a masterpiece of Renaissance art repainted between 1508 and 1512, by the Italian artist Michelangelo Buonarroti, possibly the greatest artist who has ever lived. This spectacular 1 kg coin, consists of 33, according to Michelangelo´s structure, edgeless colorprinted bars, of 5 different sizes, which all put together form one coin unit. Issued by Niue Island made of Silver 999 with Proof quality. The Sistine Chapel ceiling is entirely reproduced on 33 coins edgeless that enhance the beauty and complexity of the Michelanges's masterpiece. The cut of the money is designed to respect the painting's architecture: on lateral side there are 6 coin square shaped representing the four Pendentives and the Prophets Jonah and Zechariah; the central part shows nine stories of the Genesis represented on 9 coins rectangular shaped; 8 coins depict the Webs and 10 the Sybils and in the upper and lower edges a total of 8 currencies for sails and other 10 for Sybil and the Prophets.The coins are issued a legal tender in Niue Island. The obverse of each coin bears the Ian Rank-Broadley effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. BACKGROUND AND HISTORY THE SISTINE CHAPELThe Sistine Chapel takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV della Rovere (pontiff from 1471 to 1484) who had the old Cappella Magna restored between 1477 and 1480. The 15th century decoration of the walls includes: the false drapes, the Stories of Moses (south and entrance walls) and of Christ (north and entrance walls) and the portraits of the Popes (north and south and entrance walls). It was executed by a team of painters made up initially of Pietro Perugino, Sandro Botticelli, Domenico Ghirlandaio and Cosimo Rosselli, assisted by their respective shops and by some closer assistants among whom Biagio di Antonio, Bartolomeo della Gatta and Luca Signorelli stand out. On the Ceiling Pier Matteo d'Amelia painted a starry sky. The work on the frescoes began in 1481 and was concluded in 1482. This is also the date of the following works in marble: the screen, the choir stalls (where the choristers took their places), and the pontifical coat of arms over the entrance door. On 15 August 1483, Sixtus IV consecrated the new chapel dedicating it to Our Lady of the Assumption. MICHELANGELO AND THE CEILINGJulius II della Rovere (pontiff from 1503 to 1513), nephew of Sixtus IV, decided to partly alter the decoration, entrusting the work in 1508 to Michelangelo Buonarroti, who painted the Ceiling and, on the upper part of the walls, the lunettes. The work was finished in October 1512 and on the Feast of All Saints (1 November), Julius II inaugurated the Sistine Chapel with a solemn Mass. The nine central panels show the Stories of Genesis, from the Creation to the Fall of man, to the Flood and the subsequent rebirth of mankind with the family of Noah.Reference to the first letter of Peter is likely. In this the water of the flood is seen as a prophetic sign of the water of Baptism, from which a new mankind emerges, that of those saved by Christ. In the spaces between the webs we see, seated on monumental thrones, five Sibyls and seven Prophets. In the four corner pendentives are the Miraculous salvation of Israel while in the webs and lunettes (north and south and entrance walls) are the Ancestors of Christ. Towards the end of 1533 Clement VII de' Medici (pontiff from 1523 to 1534) gave Michelangelo the task of further altering the decoration of the Sistine Chapel by painting the Last Judgement on the altar wall. This caused the loss of the 15th century frescoes, that is to say of the altar-piece of the Virgin assumed among the Apostles and the first two episodes of the Stories of Moses and of Christ, painted by Perugino. In this fresco Michelangelo wished to show the glorious return of Christ in the... read more

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