Work on the Medici tombs continued long after Michelangelo went back to Rome in 1534. In 1505 Pope Julius II called Michelangelo back to Rome, for two commissions. ... Beginning with God Separating Light from Darkness and including the creation of Adam, the Creation of Eve, the Temptation and Fall of Adam and Eve, and the Flood. ... However Michelangelo made some of his finest sculpture for the Julius tomb, including the Moses now located in Rome's church of San Pietro in Vincoli. ... In Rome in 1536, Michelangelo was working on the Last Judgment for the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel, ...

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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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Botticelli spent the majority of his life in Florence, but did make a visit to Rome, where he painted wall frescoes in the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican (World Art, 584). ... All around them roses are falling, each with a golden heart in the center of the flower. ...

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