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"The Fall and Expulsion", a panel on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, by Michelangelo is a painting portraying a story. The story is of Adam and Eve receiving the apple from Temptation and then being expelled from the beautiful Garden of Eden. Rembrandt's "The Night Watch" (1642) on the other hand, is not a biblical story, it's not really a story at all it's just a painting showing a gathering of military importance. Michelangelo's payment for his work came from the pockets of the Catholic Church unlike Rembrandt who's pay came from the pockets of the wealthy men whom he painted in this work. Michelangelo painted a story where the characters have appeared more than once in the painting and made it a closed composition meaning that the whole story is contained in the frame and all the action is happening in the painting, not giving you the feeling that it continues out of the painting. Rembrandt's work, ho