システィーナ礼拝堂はソロモン神殿の寸法に合わせて建てられている

The Sistine Chapel is built to the measurements of Solomon’s temple. Its interior runs about forty metres by thirteen, close to the sixty cubits by twenty that the Book of Kings gives for the house Solomon built and Babylon burned. Named for Pope Sixtus IV, it was consecrated to Our Lady of the Assumption on her feast in 1483. The house it copies has not stood for two thousand years. Scripture gives its size plainly: “the length thereof was threescore…