Editing Pope Clement VI (section)

===Private life===
Unlike the Cistercian Benedict XII,  the Benedictine Clement VI was devoted to an openhanded and generous lifestyle, and the treasury which he inherited from his predecessor made that lifestyle possible.  He claimed to have "lived as a sinner among sinners" in his own words.<ref>{{cite book |title=A Corrupt Tree: An Encyclopaedia of Crimes committed by the Church of Rome|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vcDBAgAAQBAJ&q=%22lived+as+a+sinner+among+sinners%22+Clement+VI&pg=PA774|access-date=9 November 2016|isbn=978-1483665375|author1=A.S|year= 2014| publisher=Xlibris Corporation }}</ref> During his pontificate, he added a new chapel to the Papal Palace and dedicated it to [[St. Peter]]. He [[Commission (art)|commissioned]] the artist [[Matteo Giovanetti]] of [[Viterbo]] to paint common hunting and fishing scenes on the walls of the existing papal chapels, and purchased enormous tapestries to decorate the stone walls. To bring good music to the celebrations, he recruited musicians from northern France, especially from [[Liège]], who cultivated the [[Ars Nova]] style. He liked music so much that he kept composers and theorists close to him throughout his entire pontificate, [[Philippe de Vitry]] being among the more famous. The first two payments he made after his coronation were to musicians.<ref>Tomasello, ''Music and Ritual at the Papal Court of Avignon 1309–1403'', 12–20.</ref>