Continuing the interesting facts about the Cistine Chapel... the painting was actually done for no money, as penance. Mechlangelo had taken on a comission for a papl tomb, and then gone off and gambled the money, without procuring the materials needed for the sepulchre. When the pope died a little sooner than expected, Michelangelo wasnt' able to raise the funds again in time to get everything sorted. He fled the area for a while, but got tracked down, and was made to paint the Chapel by way of recompense to the Vatican.

Fun, eh?

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