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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 sculptur ....
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.... 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 ....
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