Michelangelo moved to Rome where he was able to examine many newly unearthed classical statues and ruins. ... Starting in the fall of 1508, by 1512 Michelangelo had painted over 300 figures on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. ... However, Clement VII ordered the city to be surrounded by the same terrible German mercenary soldiers who had put the city of Rome to fire and sword in 1527. ... In Rome, where Michelangelo went, he was able to count on the esteem, protection, and affection of Pope Clement VII who, shortly before his death, commissioned him to paint the fresco of the Last Judgment in th...

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He entered Rome for the first time in January 1337. ... Accepting an invitation to go to Rome on Easter Sunday, 1341, he was given the great honor to be publicly crowned as poet and historian in the Capitol. ... Laura died in 1348 falling victim to the black plague. ...

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Italian scholars and critics began studying the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome. ... Italians especially, recaptured the former glory of Rome. ... Botticelli's Venus is so stunning that the viewer does not notice the unusually elongated looking neck due to the steep fall of Venus" shoulders and the queer way in which her left arm is hinged to the body. ...

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As time passed this artistic movement spread across Italy to Venice and Rome, and by the Sixteenth century the rest of Europe. ... Here Botticelli passionately tries to recapture the former glory of Rome, because the classical myths had become popular among educated laymen. ... Simply as a side note: Venus was conceived when the Titan Cronus castrated his father, the god Uranus, the severed genitals falling into the sea and fertilizing it. ...

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Also, The Great Papal Schism divided and denigrated papal prestige for over forty years, when two popes were elected for the same position in two different areas: Rome and Avignon, France. ... He explains to Franciscus that falling in love caused him to neglect the original passions of his own life. ... So, it is more important to intellectually improve yourself, than it is to fall in love. ...

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