Michelangelo

Part I of Essay
was pessimistic in his poetry and an optimist in his artwork. ’s artwork consisted of paintings and sculptures that showed humanity in it’s natural state. ’s poetry was pessimistic in his response to Strazzi even though he was complementing him. ’s sculpture brought out hi ....

Part II of Essay
.... 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. had hardly begun work on the pope’s tomb when Julius commanded him to fresco the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel to complete th ....