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1448
Pope Nicholas V recognised the irrepairable state of the old St Peter's Bacilica
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1503
Bramante (who was Michelangelo's greatest enemy) was hired to build a new St Peters Basilica
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1506
The start of the build
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Period: 1508 to 1512
Michelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel
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1546
Michelangelo, is named architect of St. Peter's. A year later, he produces his first wooden model of Brunelleschil's dome.
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1547
Michelangelo redesigns the Dome
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26 years after the death of Michelangelo, the dome was completed.
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Consecration of the new basilica of St Peter by Pope Urban
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Period: to
Bernini designed St. Peter's Square.