Michelangelo was pessimistic in his poetry and an optimist in his artwork.
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
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...