The theme of the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes comes from:

A. scenes of everyday life.
B. the Egyptian Book of the Dead.
C. the story of the artist's life.
D. Plato's Republic.
E. None of these answers is correct.


E
Michelangelo organized the ceiling into segments depicting the Old Testament stories of the creation of the world.

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