eased 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 series of figures; and nine central panels, all bound
             together with architectural motifs and nude male figures. The corner triangles
             depict heroic action in the Old Testament, while the other eight triangles
             depict the biblical ancestors of Jesus Christ. Michelangelo conceived and
             executed this huge work as a single unit. It's overall meaning is a problem.
             The issue has engaged historians of art for generations without satisfactory
             resolution. The paintings that were done by Michelangelo had been painted
             with the brightest colors that just bloomed the whole ceiling as one entered
             to look. The ceiling had been completed just a little after the Pope had died.
             The Sistine Chapel is the best fresco ever done.
             Michelangelo embodied many characteristic qualities of the Renaissance. An
             individualistic, highly competitive genius (sometimes to the point of
             eccentricity). Michelangelo was not afraid to show humanity in it's natural
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