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In 1535, one year after becoming pope, Paul III appointed Michelangelo Supreme Architect, Sculptor and Painter to the Vatican Palace. He earned a monthly salary of 100 gold scudi, a large sum which was twelve times what Emperor Charles V was paying the painter Titian that year. Michelangelo continued to work for successive popes until his death in 1564.
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His Holiness Pope Paul IV died on 18 August 1559 in Rome, in the 5th year of his pontificate, at the age of 83-years. He was buried on 19 August in the Patriarchal Vatican Basilica, and his mortal remains were transferred on 2 October 1566 to the basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome. Top
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Trained in the old school of papal supremacy, Paul III considered Charles V's attitude of independent equality insufferable. The semi-pontifical flavour of his Augsbourg "Interims", his perpetual intrusion into matters of dogma, annoyed the Pope considerably. His Holiness made no mystery of his disapproval, but the Emperor remained unmoved. The Holy See no longer held princes in the thraldom of its prestige. Charles had crushed Clement as a giant crushes a pigmy. If, as is argued, temporal power was necessary to Papacy for the preservation of its spiritual independence, to be logical it should have been a sovereignty preponderating over all others--a Colossus that could never know defeat.
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A few decades earlier, Pope Leo X (1475-1521), who was a great patron of Pope Paul III, was ... portrayed by Raphael with two of his relatives, his nephews Giulio de' Medici and Luigi de Rossi. Giulio later became Pope Clement VII. The political allusion to this painting is clear in Paul III's decision to be portrayed with two of his younger relatives. In terms of composition, though, Titian is scarcely influenced by Raphael. He finds his own subtle means of expressing the political claims of Paul III.
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Narrator stands at the podium, perhaps to one side; Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Pope Paul III sit in chairs, prepared for conversation together. The three historical figures are miked and dressed plainly and similarly—dark slacks, white shirt. (Alternatively, each person could wear a black robe and a distinctive hat.) They look straight ahead until the narrator finishes.
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