Michaelangelo and The Pope's Celing

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In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michaelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The thirty-three-year-old Michaelangelo had very little experience of the physically and technically taxing art of fresco; and, at twelve thousand square feet, the ceiling represented one of the largest such projects ever attempted. Nevertheless, for the next four years he and a hand-picked team of assistants laboured over the vase ceiling, making thousands of drawings and spending back-breaking hours on a scaffold fifty feet above the floor.