Photo: Sistine Chapel

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Door in the marble screen that divides the nave for the laity from the presbytery for the clergy. They were originally two equal sections, divided by this screen and a pattern of floor mosaics. In later years, the screen was moved to make the nave smaller and the presbytery much larger.

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