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Botticelli painted three scenes, helped by numerous assistants. On 17 February 1482 his contract was renewed, including the other scenes to complete the chapel's decoration. However, on the 20th of the same month, his father died: he returned to Florence, where he remained.
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period, which also included elements of earlier imperial monuments. The real Arch of Constantine's inscription is replaced by a cautionary inscription paraphrased from the
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above. The texts attached to the paintings of the Sistine Chapel inform the educated congregants in the papal chapel of the subject matter of the paintings; the
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On 27 October 1480 Botticelli, together with other Florentine painters, left for Rome, where he had been called as part of the reconciliation project between
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The intended message of the painting is clear, no one should doubt the authority of the Pope over the Church. The power of the
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has placed himself between the rebels and Moses, protecting him from the stoning. The center scene shows the rebellion with
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work to reveal both the identity of the figures, the content of the scenes with the Biblical narratives, and their
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and the conspirators being driven out by Moses and Aaron, as high priest wearing the
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The painting is framed by golden faux-architecture with an inscribed
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The painting depicts three episodes and tells of a rebellion by the
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The theme of the decoration was a parallel between the lives of
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Venus and the Three Graces Presenting Gifts to a Young Woman
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unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron
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Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist
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Virgin and Child with the Infant St. John the Baptist
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Sandro Botticelli
Landscape view of the Arch of Constantine across the Campus Martius with the via Sacra behind with trees and the Caelian Hill rising on the left and the Palatine Hill on the right.
Campus Martius
fresco
Italian Renaissance painter
Sandro Botticelli
Sistine Chapel
Rome
Lorenzo de' Medici
de facto
Florence
Pope Sixtus IV
Sistine Chapel
Pietro Perugino
Moses
Old
New Testament
Mosaic Law
Jesus
Peter
successors
popes
Israelites
Aaron
Egypt
Joshua
Korah
papal tiara
rays of light

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