Michelangelo was pessimistic in his poetry and an optimist in his artwork. Michelangelos artwork consisted of paintings and sculptures that showed humanity in its Michelangelos poetry was pessimistic in his response to Strazzi even thoughhe was complementing him. Michelangelos sculpture brought out his optimism.Michelangelo was optimistic in completing The Tomb of Pope Julius II and perseveredthrough its many revisions trying to complete his vision. Sculpture was Michelangelosmain 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 agreat and stable personality. Michelangelos artwork consisted of paintings and sculptures that showedhumanity in its natural state. Michelangelo Buonarroti was called to Rome in 1505 byPope Julius II to create for him a monumental tomb. We have no clear sense of what thetomb was to look like, since over the years it went through at least five conceptualrevisions. The tomb was to have three levels; the bottom level was to have sculptedfigures representing Victory and bond slaves. The second level was to have statues ofMoses 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 isassumed, was to have an effigy of the deceased pope. The tomb of Pope Julius II wasnever finished. What was finished of the tomb represents a twenty-year span of frustratingdelays and revised schemes. Michelangelo had hardly begun work on the popes tombwhen Julius commanded him to fresco the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel to complete thework done in the previous century under Sixtus IV. The overall organization consists offour large triangles at the corner; a series of eight triangular spaces on the outer border; anintermediate series of figures; and nine central panels, all bound together with architectur...
