In 1481, Botticelli was sent to Rome by Lorenzo “il Magnifico” de’ Medici to decorate the walls of Pope Sixtus IV’s new chapel, better known as the Sistine Chapel. Along with Perugino, Ghirlandaio, Rosselli, and Signorelli, Botticelli would produce one of the most important fresco cycles of the early Renaissance. Botticelli’s three paintings – “The Trials of Moses,” “The Temptations of Christ,” and “The Punishment of the Sons of Korah – introduced the innovations of early Renaissance Florentine painting to Rome, but also reflect the influence of the classical world on the art of Botticelli. This classical influence was also present in the works that Botticelli produced after his Roman sojourn, such as “The Story of Lucretia” in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.