| SISTINE | --- Chapel, Vatican chapel famous for its Renaissance frescos by Michelangelo and others (7) |
| OLDMASTERS | Michelangelo and others |
| SCULPTORS | Michelangelo and others |
| RAPHAEL | Italian artist and contemporary of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci (7) |
| LORENZO | Michelangelo and Botticelli's "Magnifico" Medici patron described as the "needle in the Italian balance/scales" (7) |
| PAULIII | Pope who was a patron of Michelangelo and Copernicus |
| ARTISTS | Michelangelo and Magritte |
| ADAM | The Creation of -; a fresco by Michelangelo forming part of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling (4) |
| THELASTJUDGEMENT | Fresco by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel (3,4,9) |
| FLORENCE | Tuscan capital ruled by the Medicis in the 15th century where Renaissance masters Botticelli and Donatello were born and Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael lived/worked (8) |
| MICHELANGELO | Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor whose works include frescos on the walls and ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (12) |
| TEENAGEMUTANTNINJATURTLES | Animated series involving the characters Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael (7,6,5,7) |
| RENAISSANCE | Cultural and humanistic era of European "rebirth", during which the great minds of Botticelli, Copernicus, Dante, Donatello, Galileo, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael contributed to the sum of its u |
| GALATEA | Depicted in a fresco by the artist described in 34 Across, a mythological Greek nereid or the name of the statue carved by Pygmalion (7) |
| STPETERS | Basilica in the Vatican city, the work of architects including Raphael, Michelangelo and Bernini (2, |
| PISANELLO | Considered the inventor of the portrait medal, Italian painter whose surviving frescos are Annunciation and Saint George and the Princess (9) |
| SARTO | Italian word for "tailor", which is the epithet of the Florentine painter Andrea d'Agnolo di Francesco di Luca, whose frescos include The Journey of the Magi and The Nativity of the Virgin (5) |
| INTONACO | A fresco's final wet giornata plaster coat, such as that in the Sistine Chapel enabling master Michelangelo's famous angels to gracefully float (8) |
| ATHENS | The School Of ___ , fresco by Renaissance artist Raphael, featuring ancient Greek philosophers (6) |
| THESCHOOLOF | Athens, fresco by Raphael in Vatican City depicting ancient philosophers (3,6,2) |
