... that would portray both humanist and religious traditions during the time. The ceiling itself is a vast area, 133 feet by 43 feet. It is a shallow, barrel-shaped vault with concave triangles that first struck Michaelangelo with his ideas for the painting (Michaelangelo, Sistine Chapel 33-35). A normal painter might have treated the ceiling as a flat surface, but because he was an ... ...

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... less importance, shapes, colors. The painting doesn't have so much detail on it. Meanwhile the Islamic piece is geometrically perfect, has a lot of details, it has straight lines, squares, rectangles, triangles, etc. It has a bigger amount of components, drawings, it's more accurate, and it is organized and understandable. The joint of all the components make it a more complex piece of art ... ...

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