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. ...
"It claimed that the rate of fall of an object was determined by its weight, held that matter was constructed out of four possible elements, with different matter containing different combinations of these four, and described the universe as the Greek astronomer Ptolemy had described it, as a static and finite thing in which the Earth occupied the central position, with the sun and planets in revolution and the distant stars inhabiting its farthest edges."... "The Pope, who had the responsibility of running the Catholic Church as well, ruled Rome. ... For example, in the time before gravity wa...
