Abstract
John Ruskin first visited the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican in April 1841 and noted in his diary: ‘Our last day in Rome I devoted to Sistine Chapel, and received real pleasure from it’.2 His pleasure on that occasion was due to his appreciation of Michelangelo's use of colour, but no mention is made of Sandro Botticelli. That visit was almost a valediction to Rome: ‘there is something about it which will make me dread to return’, he also wrote.3 Indeed, Ruskin was not to return to Rome, and the Sistine Chapel in particular, until 1872, some 31 years later.
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