Michaelangelo was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance. In 1508, he started painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and did not finish it till four years later. It stretches over 500 square meters of ceiling and contains over 300 figures. In the middle, there are nine episodes from the book of genesis, divided into three groups: God's creation of the earth, God's creation of humankind, and their fall from God's grace. Michaelangelo was only suppose to paint the twelve apostles on the pendentives that supported the ceiling, but asked Pope Julius to do a more complex scheme.
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