![]() The Pope would frequently ask Michelangelo when he would make an end of the work, to which Michelangelo replied when he was finished. Over the next several years Michelangelo continued work on the painting. He talked Julius into letting him paint the ceiling according to his plans. Putting together a plan he gathered his courage and went to see Julius. ![]() While hiding in northern Italy near Carrara, Michelangelo was inspired by the sun rising over the mountains. When Barmante suggested hiring the artist Raphael to paint the ceiling, Julius rebuked him, saying that either Michelangelo would paint the ceiling or would hang. Furious over what had happened Julius demanded his soldiers bring Michelangelo back to Rome. When Michelangelo was dissatisfied with his first attempt at painting the ceiling he destroyed his work and ran off. Michelangelo protested that painting was not his trade, but Julius insisted. He ordered Michelangelo to stop working on his tomb and instead start painting the ceiling of the chapel. Later in 1508 Julius decided he didn't like the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, and wanted it decorated suitably. Julius felt an attachment to the Sistine Chapel, as it had been built a few decades earlier by his Uncle Pope Sixtus IV. Julius defended his actions, saying he was not the Borgia (Pope Alexander VI), and that he would use both the sword and art to build up the church, not engage in power plays. He spent the next few years carving statues for the tomb, and as blocks of marble were delivered to Rome he was able to see the finished product living in the stone and maintained that he just had to carve them free.įor his part Michelangelo disapproved of the Pope's use of the sword to conquer Italy, calling him a freebooter and conqueror. ![]() As such he set out on campaigns across the mid section of Italy to retrieve lands for the Papal States.Īt some point Julius had requested Michelangelo carve a tomb for him, and Michelangelo accepted the commission. Somewhat hot tempered, Julius was more skilled as a solider than a priest. Pope Julius II (born Giuliano della Rovere) was a character from the Irving Stone novel The Agony and the Ecstasy, and the 1965 movie with the same name based upon the novel.īy the early 1500s Julius was the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. ~ Julius II and Michelangelo, on his work on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel ![]()
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