Decoration of the Sistine Chapel
        
        
     
    
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        In 1515, Pope Leo X commissioned the artist Raphael to design a series of tapestries to be hung around the lower tier of the walls.
        
        
     
    
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        Two of these tapestries became redundant when Michelangelo painted The Last Judgment on the wall above the altar.