Hello and welcome to Epoch's this is part three of my deep dive into the life and art and achievements of Michael Angelo

and I'll just jump straight back in last time I finished off by talking about the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, but there's still quite a lot of

my worked up almost literally until the last day of his life.

He didn't achieve a great deal in the last 10 years or so,

but still there's quite a lot of art left for him to do.

So pretty soon after the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was completed,

the Pope Julius II died of natural causes and he was succeeded by Giovanni de Medici Pope Leo the 10th.

Now Michael Angelo had grown up with him as I said in part one, Renzo the Magnificent many years before this,

had taken my Calangelo under his wing and sort of brought him up in his own household

with his son and his nephew. Anyway, so Pope Leo the 10th becomes Pope and you know of course he

wants to commission Michael Angelo to do work for him.

We're told that there was still the ongoing headache

that Michelangelo had of building the tomb of Pope Julius II.

And for sorry, he says,

for the rest of his life, it was to bring him

endless vexations and annoyances and drudgery more than anything else he ever did. vex and

the drudgery more than anything else he ever did.

I should do a bit less reading this one.

I think there was a bit too much last time, but still,

a fair bit from Vassari. that the Pope Leo the 10th was no less grandios

in mind and spirit he was a bit although he was more corrupt Leo 10th, I'll talk about this next time when I talk all about the actual Medici family in detail, but Pope Leo the 10th was a pretty bad Pope. He was the one that brought in indulgences. Indulgences had already existed,

that existed for hundreds of years, but they were never used on a massive scale, and they were under Leo the 10th, which prompted Martin Luther into his protest, and we go from there.

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