... ) on the other hand, is not a biblical story, it's not really a story at all it's just a painting showing a gathering of military importance. Michelangelo's payment for his work came from the pockets of the Catholic Church unlike Rembrandt who's pay came from the pockets of the wealthy men whom he painted in this work. Michelangelo painted a story where the characters have appeared more than once in ... writing about the Sistine ceiling describes the work as being mostly brown in colour, somber and subdued, with only an occasional flash of colour but since the ceiling has been restored o...

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... up an office in the Vatican, the Second Vatican Council ensured that the Church would never be the same again. The Second Vatican Council, otherwise known as Vatican II, was a gathering of all the Bishops in the Catholic Church that was intended to "bring the Church up to date" (aggiornamento) as Pope John XXIII acknowledged that the Church stood in ... more relevant to modern society as well as to debate and resolve centuries-old differentiations in faith with other Christians. The aims of the Council were to be limitless as every aspect of the Church was examined and discussed. The ma...

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