HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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Botticelli
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Machiavelli
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Gutenberg
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da Vinci
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Detailed explanation-1: -These artists included Ghirlandaio and Rosselli from Florence and Perugino from Umbria. This was some twenty-seven years before Michelangelo began his work on the ceiling.
Detailed explanation-2: -Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the chapel, but he refused on the basis that he was a sculptor and wanted only to sculpt, not paint.
Detailed explanation-3: -The frescoes on the ceiling, collectively known as the Sistine Ceiling, were commissioned by Pope Julius II in 1508 and were painted by Michelangelo in the years from 1508 to 1512.
Detailed explanation-4: -Sandro Botticelli [2] had been receiving more and more commissions from clients outside Florence since the end of the 1470s; the most renowned of these was Pope Sixtus IV, upon whose orders Botticelli was summoned to Rome in 1481.