Michelangelo and Raphael, who had both, as we have seen, risen to greatness partly on Leonardo's shoulders, were fresh from the glory of their great achievements in the Sistine Chapel and the Stanze.
But the most celebrated composition of Allegri is the Miserere, still annually performed in the Sistine Chapel at Rome.
He established and richly endowed the first foundling hospital, built and repaired numerous churches, constructed the Sistine Chapel and the Sistine Bridge, improved church music and instituted the famous Sistine choir, commissioned paintings on the largest scale, pensioned men of learning, and, above all, immortalized himself as the second founder of the Vatican library.
The most important work for which he was responsible is the " Last Judgment " of Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel.
At the end is the famed Sistine Chapel with Michelangelo's gorgeous paintings adorning the ceiling.
