Michelangelo and Pope Julius II

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Michelangelo and Pope Julius II

• When did they meet? 1505 A.D.
• Where did they meet? In Rome. Michelangelo had
  to come from Florence.
• Why did they meet? Pope Julius wanted
  Michelangelo to begin work on the Popes tomb.

Pope Julius II Michelangelo
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The Popes Statue

• Michelangelo went back to Florence and started to
  work on the tomb, but he was called back to Rome
  with a rope around my neck to make a fourteen
  foot bronze statue of the Pope.
• The statue was completed in 1508 but was later
  melted down to make a cannon.

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The Sistine Chapel

• Michelangelo was again interrupted when the Pope
  wanted him to fresco the vault (one hundred
  twenty feet in length, forty-five feet in width,
  and sixty-eight feet in height).
• Michelangelo did not think of himself a painter.
  He told the Pope that the place is wrong and no
  painter I. The Pope threatened to banish him
  from Rome if did not paint it.

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The Sistine Chapel

• Michelangelo started over the entranceway with
  Flood of Noah and to finished up with scenes from
  Genesis over the altar wall. (Baldini and Savini
  215)
• Did the work with little or no help. Had to lie
  on his back on top of sixty-foot-high scaffolding
  with his head turned toward heaven, which, of
  course, was very uncomfortable.

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The Sistine Chapel

• He continued to paint for four years.
• When he was finished, he had painted 343
  life-sized figures

The Last Judgment
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The Tomb

• Pope Julius died before Michelangelo could finish
  his work on the statues
• The Popes heirs refused to pay Michelangelo
• In the end, after 40 years, Michelangelo delivers
  just a few finished statues, including the Moses.
  

The Moses
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Michelangelo continued to create many great works
of art until his death at age 89, but he will
always be remembered for the magnificent
sculptures and paintings that he created for Pope
Julius.