![]() ![]() However, no one would dispute the genius of Michelangelo or the masterpiece of his frescoed ceiling half a millenium ago or today. In essence, Michelangelo wasn't much different from contemporary artists like Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons who have an army of assistants to execute their designs. Its details the story of Pope Juliuss commissioning of a reluctant Michelangelo to paint the roof of the Sistine chapel fer heavens sakes It also two of. ![]() In the course of the novel Michelangelo must overcome the interference of his. In reality, Michelangelo painted standing and he had a constant stream of assistants to help him with his momentous undertaking. Julius takes Michelangelo (Charlton Heston) to a chapel.'As you know, it was built by my uncle, Pope Sixtus,' he says.'That is why it is called the Sistine.' Seems like the lecture isn't over yet. The Agony and the Ecstasy depicts Michelangelo’s struggle to become the embodiment of Renaissance humanism. 'The Agony and the Ecstasy', a 1961 book by Irving Stone made into a cheesy Hollywood film starring Charlton Heston as Michelangelo and Rex Harrison as Pope Julius, depicted the artist lying on his back high up on scaffolding toiling away almost single-handedly. But he was eventually persuaded when he was given leeway to deviate from the original assignment to paint the 12 Apostles, allowing him the artistic freedom to create something far more elaborate and time-consuming. He was initially reluctant to accept the commission as he considered himself a sculptor not a painter. Michelangelo (Charlton Heston) is at work on statues for the tomb of Pope Julius II, conversing with the papal architect Bramante (Harry Andrews) and the foreman (Fausto Tozzi) then the pontiff himself (Rex Harrison) returns from his latest conquest, in The Agony And The Ecstasy, 1965.
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