Pintelli, Baccio, a noted Italian architect, is sup- posed to have been a Florentine. He was very active in Home in the pontificate of SixtusIV (1471-14*4), for whom he built, in 1473, the Capella Sistina, which con- tains some of the greatest works of modern painting. It is a simple rectangular oblong, with a vaulted roof: 132 feet 8 inches long, 43 feet wide, and 57 feet 10 inches high. The fresco of the Last Judgment, by Michael An- gelo, painted in 1533-1541, for pope Paul III, on the al- tar-wall, is 47 feet 1 inch in height, and 43 feet wide. It is the especial chapel of the pope, and the Church cere- monies of the first Sunday in Advent and of the Holy Week are always performed in it ; the scrutiny also of the votes for the popedom takes place in this chapel, when the Conclave is held in the Vatican. Before the execution of the Last Judgment, two horizontal series of paintings went around the chapel below the windows, of which there are six on each side; the upper is a series from the Old and New Testaments, illustrating the acts of Moses and of Christ; the second, or lower, consists of imitations of hangings, with the arms of Sixtus IV. The side walls remain as they were originally painted, and on great festivals of the Church the painted hang- ings used to be formerly covered by the tapestries made for the purpose from the celebrated cartoons of Raffaelle which are now preserved in the corridor in the museum of the Vatican, built for them by Leo XII ; they were placed in the museum by Pius VII in 1814, in the apart- ments of Pius V. There are twenty-two tapestries in all, but only ten are in the style and of the size of the cartoons at Hampton Court ; the rest were not ordered or purchased for the Sistine Chapel. The subject of these ten is the history of the apostles ; and besides the seven at Hampton Court there are the following three: the Martyrdom of St. Stephen; St. Paul in Prison at Philippi during the Earthquake ; and the Conversion <■/' St. Paul. The ten cartoons of these tapestries were executed in 1515 and 1546 by the order of Leo X, and Raffaelle received for them about ffteen pounds each. The second set of tapestries of the Life of Christ, which are larger than the others, are supposed, from their style and their bad drawing, to have been executed from car- toons made by Flemish masters, probably Van Orlay and Michael Coxis, from small sketches by Raffaelle, and certainly not from cartoons from Raffaelle's own hands. The two sets are called Delia Scuola Xuora and Delia Scuola Vecchia, those ordered by Leo X being of the " Scuola Vecchia." The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is decorated with the frescos executed in 1512 by Michael Angelo, illustrating the creation of man, the fall, and the early history of the world. Michael An- gelo intended to paint the Fall of Lucifer on the wall opposite the Last Judgment, but this design was never carried into execution. The whole series of illustra- tions would have represented the complete cycle of the creation and fall of man, and his final salvation, if this last design had been executed : it would have offered one vast "speculum humanse salvationis," as such a series was termed by the early artists of the Roman Catholic Church : it repeatedly occurs in early manu- scripts. Pintelli was the principal architect of Sixtus. and he executed several other important works for this pope. Between the years 1472 and 1477 Pintelli erect-
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ed the church and convent of Santa Maria del Popolo, in the church of which he built a beautiful chapel for i o della Kovere, cardinal of San I Lemi
according to Vasari, nephew ofSixtus IV: he buill a palace for the same cardinal al the Borgo Vecchio. About I 17:: 1 175 he buill the old Library of the Vati- can: Platina was installed by Sixtus as Librarian in 1 175. l'inii Hi restored also i he hospital of Santo Spirito
in Sassia, which was bur 1 down in 1741. He buill
also the Ponte Sisto over the Tiber; the churches San Pietro in Vinculis, Sant' Agostino, Santa Maria della ■ I Saul' Apostolo (since rebuilt) ;. and prohaUy San Pietro in Montorio and San Jacopowere buill from bi> designs. In 1480 Pintelli strengthened the cele- brated church and convent of San Francisco al Assisi by raisin-- enormous buttresses against the northern walls. I »r. Gaye (Kunstblatt, L836) attributes some other works in Rome to Pintelli, and he has show n i hal after the death of Sixtus, in 1484, he went to Urbino to continue the ducal palace of fJrbino, which Lucianus Lauranna of Slavonia had been engaged upon from 1 168 until L483, for Federico II. duke of Urbino. Pintelli may have remained at Urbino until 1491, when he built the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie at Sinigaglia, fur the duke Giovanni della Rovere. He probably died at Urbino, where he was apparently naturalized, as he took the surname of Urbinas. He appears to have been influenced by the Btyle of Brunelleschi in his de- signs, in which i here are si ill characteristics of the pre- viously prevailing pointed architecture. His works are said to be well constructed, as appears from the cupola of Sant' Agostino and the Ponte Sisto. still in a perfect state of preservation.— English Cyclop.s.v.