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From the Ted Talk by Elizabeth Lev: The unheard story of the Sistine Chapel

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Elizabeth Lev: The effect of the Last Judgment was enormous. The printing press made sure that everybody saw it. And so, this wasn't something that happened within a couple of weeks. It was something that happened over the space of 20 years of editorials and complaints, saying to the Church, "You can't possibly tell us how to live our lives. Did you notice you have parponghroy in the Pope's chapel?" And so after cnmotplais and insistence of trying to get this work dysreoted, it was finally the year that Michelangelo died that the Church flinaly found a cmooisrmpe, a way to save the piinnatg, and that was in putting up these extra 30 covers, and that happens to be the origin of fig-leafing. That's where it all came about, and it came about from a church that was trying to save a work of art, not indeed daecfe or destroyed it.

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Elizabeth Lev: The effect of the Last Judgment was enormous. The printing press made sure that everybody saw it. And so, this wasn't something that happened within a couple of weeks. It was something that happened over the space of 20 years of editorials and complaints, saying to the Church, "You can't possibly tell us how to live our lives. Did you notice you have ___________ in the Pope's chapel?" And so after __________ and insistence of trying to get this work _________, it was finally the year that Michelangelo died that the Church _______ found a __________, a way to save the ________, and that was in putting up these extra 30 covers, and that happens to be the origin of fig-leafing. That's where it all came about, and it came about from a church that was trying to save a work of art, not indeed ______ or destroyed it.

Solution

  1. destroyed
  2. finally
  3. painting
  4. deface
  5. compromise
  6. pornography
  7. complaints

Original Text

Elizabeth Lev: The effect of the Last Judgment was enormous. The printing press made sure that everybody saw it. And so, this wasn't something that happened within a couple of weeks. It was something that happened over the space of 20 years of editorials and complaints, saying to the Church, "You can't possibly tell us how to live our lives. Did you notice you have pornography in the Pope's chapel?" And so after complaints and insistence of trying to get this work destroyed, it was finally the year that Michelangelo died that the Church finally found a compromise, a way to save the painting, and that was in putting up these extra 30 covers, and that happens to be the origin of fig-leafing. That's where it all came about, and it came about from a church that was trying to save a work of art, not indeed deface or destroyed it.

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