Michelangelo's artwork consisted of paintings and sculptures that showed humanity

in it's natural state. Michelangelo's poetry was pessimistic in his response to Strazzi

even though he was complementing him. Michelangelo's sculpture brought out his

optimism. Michelangelo was optimistic in completing The Tomb of Pope Julius II

and persevered through it's many revisions trying to complete his vision. Sculpture

was Michelangelo's main goal and the love of his life. Since his art portrayed both

optimism and pessimism, Michelangelo was in touch with his positive and negative

sides, showing that he had a great and stable personality.

Michelangelo's artwork consisted of paintings and sculptures that showed humanity in it's natural state. Michelangelo Buonarroti was called to Rome in 1505 by Pope Julius II to create for him a monumental tomb. We have no clear sense of what the

tomb was to look like, since over the years it went through at least five conceptual

revisions. The tomb was to have three levels; the bottom level was to have

sculpted figures representing Victory and bond slaves. The second level was to

majestically, holding the dead Christ across her lap, a theme borrowed from northern European art. Instead of

revealing extreme grief, Mary is restrained, and her expression is one of resignation. In this work, Michelangelo

with a clap of thunder, puts into motion the inevitable separation, with the saved ascending on the left side of the

mind and a body, in Neoplatonic thought, with the power to be our own shapers. Michelangelo has a very great

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