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From 1506 to 1626, it changed from the simple ground plan of a Greek cross, with four arms of equal length, as favored by Bramante and his arch-enemy Michelangelo, to the final form of Maderno’s Latin cross extended by a long nave, as demanded by the popes of the Counter-Reformation.
Past popes were remote and magisterial figures, but capitalizing on his relative youth, his actor's panache, and a mastery of mass communications, John Paul II changed all that--unafraid of diluting the papal mystique through overexposure.
(Although his remains were reburied, subsequent popes had Formosus' body disinterred and further mutilated.)
As in any collection of family pictures, there’s a preponderance of portraits, though here the aunts and uncles tend to be princesses, cardinals, and popes.
In Rome, the dissolute popes repeatedly switched factions for temporary advantage and lost all political and moral authority in the process.