... ] and never an hour's happiness have I had." His relationship with the patron pope, who impatiently interupted him often, could be described as "strained" at best. On one occasion when the pope snuck a peek at the work and commented on the slow progress, Michelangelo hurled scaffolding planks at him from above, a ... Adam and God, and to some suggests the vastness of space and the vacuum of of matter and absence of life before this event. Yahweh, the Christian God is portrayed as an elder but powerful man, reclining within a moving shoud-like orb of purple cloth filled with a "kinetic" e...

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