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Michelangelo

 

            
             Michelangelo was pessimistic in his poetry and an optimist in his .
             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 have statues of Moses and Saint Paul as well as symbolic .
             figures of the active and contemplative life- representative of the .
             human striving for, and reception of, knowledge. The third level, it .
             is assumed, was to have an effigy of the deceased pope. The tomb of .
             Pope Julius II was never finished. What was finished of the tomb .
             represents a twenty-year span of frustrating delays and revised .
             schemes. Michelangelo had hardly begun work on the pope's tomb when .
             Julius commanded him to fresco the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel to .
             complete the work done in the previous century under Sixtus IV. The .
             overall organization consists of four large triangles at the corner; a .
             series of eight triangular spaces on the outer border; an intermediate .


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