Bulla on Vasari on Michelangelo

Vasari was an artist, known to idealize Micheangelo, and who began the idea of Art History. The whole story of the problems that arose in the creation of the ceiling seems so devious and underhanded that it makes you appreciate how beautiful the work turned out to be, and how litte time it took despite the problems that persisted. Some of my favorite images from the story include;

1) the tricery associated with getting Michengelo to paint the ceiling,

2)Michelangelo's constant refusals vs the popes urgings.

3) Michelangelo asking for help from his friends (experienced in fresco as he was not) only to destroy what they had created and refuse to let them return to helping him.

4) the devotion of Vasari in his description of Michelangelo's work

and lastly

5) the intersting relationship between the pope and michelangelo