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Imagine entering the Sistine Chapel before Michelangelo transformed it into the masterpiece we know today. Looking up, you wouldn’t have seen the biblical scenes that fascinate us, but a starry sky, a mantle of stars painted by Pier Matteo d’Amelia. A work that has now disappeared, but which played a fundamental role in the history […]
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The centuries-old process of choosing a new head of the Catholic Church is a lengthy and extremely secretive one that has not changed much. Though little is known of the day-to-day conversations between voting cardinals, the public does receive a general idea of the process. Cardinals gather from around the world in Vatican City, with […]
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Arguably one of the most famous catholic art pieces of all time, the Sistine Chapel is known as Michelangelo’s masterpiece, but it was in fact his first time painting a fresco. In 1508 while working on Pope Julius II’s marble tomb, he was asked to change and finish the ceiling of the Chapel. Michelangelo hesitated, […]
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