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There is a reason why the resurrection chapel to the right of the main altar and aisle has scenes that look strikingly like those in the Sistine Chapel. That\u2019s because the one was modelled on the other. Luca Signorelli did these incredible paintings, and Michelangelo is said to have borrowed some of these images and copied them in the Sistine chapel (and in any case Signorelli himself had done a now lost section of the fresco in the Sistine Chapel.\u00a0 Here are some of the images from Signorelli\u2019s masterpiece.<\/p>\n

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There is a reason why the resurrection chapel to the right of the main altar and aisle has scenes that look strikingly like those in the Sistine Chapel. That\u2019s because the one was modelled on the other. 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