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  Out Of Darkness:
  Restoring The Frescoes' Brilliant Past

No one knows who mandated the ceiling's theme. After Michelangelo reportedly told Julius II that a mere rendering of Christ's 12 apostles (as originally proposed) would be a poor use of the space, the artist wrote to a friend saying he had been given a free hand to design whatever he wanted.

In essence, the ceiling's Old Testament and classical vignettes point forward in time toward the salvation that was to be man's through Jesus Christ's birth, death and resurrection.

The ceiling's possibilities are endless.

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