Original: Earlier , Botticelli had painted an Assumption of the Virgin for Matteo Palmieri in a chapel at San Pietro Maggiore in which , it was rumored , both the patron who dictated the iconic scheme and the painter who painted it , were guilty of unidentified heresy , a delicate requirement in such a subject .
Simplified: Earlier , Botticelli had painted an Assumption of the Virgin for Matteo Palmieri in a chapel at San Pietro Maggiore . In this painting , it was rumored , both the patron who dictated the iconic scheme and the painter who painted it , were guilty of heresy .