He built the Sistine Chapel, and brought the greatest painters of the day to Rome--Signorelli, Perugino, Botticelli, Cosimo, Rosselli, and Ghirlandajo.
Melozzo da Forli worked for him.

One of that painter's few remaining masterpieces is the wall-picture, now in the Vatican, which represents Sixtus among his Cardinals and Secretaries--a magnificent piece of vivid portraiture.

Sixtus again threw the Vatican library open to the public, and In his days the Confraternity of S.Luke was founded for the encouragement of design.

Rome owes to him the hospital of S.Spirito, a severe building, by Baccio Pontelli, and the churches of S.Maria del Popolo and S.Maria della Pace.

Innocent VIII.