“When the cardinals convene today in the Sistine Chapel, they will be listening not only for the voice of the Holy Spirit but for those of Michelangelo, Raphael, Botticelli and other titans of the Italian Renaissance, whose paintings and frescoes adorn its walls and ceilings. No place is richer in spiritual inspiration and admonition than this – from Botticelli’s Punishment of the Rebels to Michelangelo’s Last Judgment, the most harrowing depiction of sin and damnation in Western art. The room has a vote.”