August 9 1483 – 6 Elul 5243
The Sistine Chapel was completed in Rome. The lavish building was restored by Pope Sixtus IV, and named after him. The greatest artists of the day were brought to Rome to decorate the chapel, and it’s considered one of the world’s most beautiful buildings to this day. Sexually corrupt, nepotist and grasping, Sixtus was wealthy enough to endow the site of his daily worship with all the glory of the Italian Renaissance. Among his many negative achievements, the permission he granted Torquemada to establish the Spanish Inquisition was one of the most devastating and far reaching for the Jewish people.
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