Many of us have seen - well at least pictures or a few selected details from - Michelangelo's lofty Renaissance masterpiece. Yet, what somehow escapes the modern narrative is the fact that the Sistine Chapel's ceiling is as much about artistic genius as it is about the political, religious, and personal dynamics of the Renaissance.

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