Michelangelo

             Michelangelo's future was shaped to a large degree by his life in Lorenzo's household. When Lorenzo died in 1942 at the age of 43, Michelangelo designed the tombs for Lorenzo as well as his brother, Guiliano de Medici. The two complex tombs were conceived as representing opposite types. Lorenzo's, the contemplative, introspective personality while Guiliano's the active, extroverted one. He put magnificent nude representations of dawn and dusk on Lorenzo's tomb and representations of day and night on Guiliano's tomb. Work on the Medici tombs continued long after Michelangelo went back to Rome in 1534. In 1505 Michelangelo was called back to Rome by Pope Julius II in for two commissions. The most important one was for the frescoes of the Sistine chapel ceiling. Working lying on his back on scaffolding,
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