Pope Sixtus IV
Pope of the Catholic Church from 1471 to 1484 (1414-1484) · Italy · Religious Figures · Died at 70
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Something wrong?He built the Sistine Chapel and founded the Vatican Library, then authorized the Spanish Inquisition and backed a plot to murder the Medici in Florence. The Renaissance and the rack, same papacy.
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Pedro Berruguete, Portrait of Pope Sixtus IV della Rovere (early 1500s), Cleveland Museum of Art
Cluny - Anneaux des papes Paul II et Sixte IV - XVe Bronze doré & Cristal de roche
Francesco della Rovere, De futuris contingentibus
Francesco della Rovere, preface
Pope Sixtus IV being shown the cadavers of dead Wellcome V0030916
Ring Sixtus IV MNMA Cl9192Family
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Francesco della Rovere became head of the Catholic Church in August 1471 and spent thirteen years pulling Rome into contradictions. He assembled the artists who brought the early Renaissance to the city, commissioning the chapel that would bear his name and creating the Vatican Library as a center of learning. Then in 1478 he issued the bull that established the Spanish Inquisition, and personally involved himself in the Pazzi conspiracy to overthrow the Medici in Florence by force. He filled the Church with relatives, annulled the decrees of the Council of Constance, and died in August 1484 at seventy, leaving behind frescoes and a trail of blood.
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