Michelangelo Sistine Chapel

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" The purpose of this research is to examine the artistic decoration of the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo. The plan of the research will be to set forth the historical context in which the decoration of the chapel was undertaken, and then to discuss the work with reference to Michelangelo's sculpture and decor of other churches in the preceding periods, as well as to the significance of Michelangelo's complex relationship with Pope Julius II for the project.

The historical context for Michelangelo's decoration of the Sistine Chapel is the tension in the fifteenth century between the Church as the dominant institution in Europe and the increasing secularism of culture. In this regard, Gutek believes that the cultural traditions of the classical period never quite disappeared from the time of the fall of Rome and the emergence.."

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