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Altar Wall Saint Peter
2,005 words... ed to Clement VII by the traumatic events that were undermining the unity of Christians at the time. After the pope's death, on September 25, 1534, and only two days after Michelangelo's arrival in Rome, his successor, Paul III Farnese confirmed the commission to Michelangelo, and in April 1535 scaffolding was put up in front of the altar wall. All that had happened in the church in the years that preceded the Judgment, including the Reformation and the Sack of Rome, had a direct influence o...
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Protestant And Catholic Reformation
1,650 wordsAt the beginning of the 16 th century, the Roman Catholic Church, modeled upon the bureaucratic structure of the Late Roman Empire, had become extremely powerful but internally corrupt. From early in the 12 th century onward, there were calls for reform. Between 1215 and 1545, nine church-councils were held with church reforms as their primary intent, yet the councils all failed to reach significant accord. Around the beginning of the 16 th century, the Roman Catholic Church experienced a wide r...
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Peters Basilica Christmas Eve
1,119 wordsPerhaps one of the most mysterious, yet magnificent, buildings ever, St. Peters Basilica has amazed people for hundreds of years. Its massive size can be seen for miles, and the dome is simply stunning. Inside, it contains famous work by Michelangelo, Giotto, and Bernini. St. Peters Basilica is basically a masterpiece. However, before the new St. Peters Basilica was created, there was an old one before it. In the early 4 th century, around 330, emperor Constantine decided to erect a basilica ded...
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Allowed To Continue Council Of Trent
3,859 wordsCounter-Reformation Or Catholic Reformation? ? Which Term Do Counter-Reformation Or Catholic Reformation? ? Which Term Do You Think Is Most Appropriate? This essay is a response to the question of whether the Catholic reform movement that predated Lutheran reforms and had its roots in the mid-fourteenth century was of greater importance for the recovery of the Catholic Church in the wake of the Reformation than direct reaction to the Protestant Reformation itself. Clerical absenteeism, nepotism,...
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Pope Paul Paul Iii
740 wordsEurope and Unintended Consequences Present-day historians have shed the light of modern understanding to issues that plagued peoples of the past. One example of this can easily be seen in the ideals popularized in Europe from the late fifteenth to the mid seventeenth centuries regarding the Americas and its inhabitants. The Americas had a discernable impact upon Europe, and vice versa; though neither group initially set out to change the world that was the unforeseen and wholly " unintended...
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Lake Of Fire Harper And Row
2,723 wordshe Last Judgment is the altarpiece in the Sistine Chapel commissioned by Pope Clement VII. The painting proceeds from the viewers lower left in a circular pattern, with the resurrected presenting themselves before the Christ and the saintly witnesses and then descending to damnation at the lower right. The religious themes and influences in the painting are only partly Christian and include Biblical events synthesized with religious concepts from Michelangelo's contemporaries. These ideas includ...
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