<P> The colours, which now appear so fresh and spring - like with pale pink, apple green, vivid yellow and sky blue against a background of warm pearly grey, were so discoloured by candle smoke as to make the pictures seem almost monochrome . The restoration has removed the filter of grime to reveal the colours again . However, the restoration was met with both praise and criticism . Critics assert that much original work by Michelangelo--in particular pentimenti, highlights and shadows, and other detailing painted a secco--was lost in the removal of various accretions . </P> <Dl> <Dd> "The work has proved a veritable beacon to our art, of inestimable benefit to all painters, restoring light to a world that for centuries had been plunged into darkness . Indeed, painters no longer need to seek for new inventions, novel attitudes, clothed figures, fresh ways of expression, different arrangements, or sublime subjects, for this work contains every perfection possible under those headings ." </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> "The work has proved a veritable beacon to our art, of inestimable benefit to all painters, restoring light to a world that for centuries had been plunged into darkness . Indeed, painters no longer need to seek for new inventions, novel attitudes, clothed figures, fresh ways of expression, different arrangements, or sublime subjects, for this work contains every perfection possible under those headings ." </Dd> <P> Johann Wolfgang Goethe </P>

What are some of the scenes depicted in the sistine chapel