The End by Laura Barcella

Author:Laura Barcella
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780982732250
Publisher: Zest

The Inspiration

Twenty-six years earlier Michelangelo had painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, which became a huge, beautiful painting featuring many intricate scenes from the Bible. In 1534, Pope Clement VII commissioned him to return to paint a resurrection scene behind the altar, but then the Pope died shortly afterward. Clement's successor, Pope Paul III, felt a Judgment Day scene would be more fitting for the mood of Rome at the time, and asked Michelangelo to change course. Pope Paul III may have had a point. Rome had recently faced several huge obstacles and setbacks: The sack of Rome in 1527 (a military action against the Catholic Church by the armies of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V) had destroyed thousands of churches, palaces, and houses, and the Catholic church was also busy fighting the Protestant Reformation, a sixteenth-century European movement that strove to reshape the beliefs and actions of the Roman Catholic Church.

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