tour the restored borgia apartments every year making them one of the most visited attractions in vatican city. and despite pope julius ii s avid condemnation of the corrupt borgia papacy, his lifestyle is even more extravagant. he actually was the great patron of michelangelo. he rebuilt the whole of st. peter s. he commissioned michelangelo to do the dome. in 1508 pope julius ii commissioned the most famous work in the modern vatican, the ceiling of the sistine chapel. della rovere was driven by personal ambition, grandiosity. he wanted michelangelo to get finished with the sistine chapel so he could get to work on his, julius , tomb, which was never finished. despite his motivations, art
every year. making them one of the most visited attractions in vatican city. and avid condemnation of the corrupt borgia papacy, his lifestyle is even more extravagant. he actually was the great patron of michelangelo. he rebuilt the wle of st. peter s. he commissioned michelangelo to do the dome. in 1508 pope julius ii commissioned the most famous work in the modern vatican, the ceiling of the sistine chapel. della rovere was driven by personal ambition, grandiosity. he wanted michelangelo to get finished with the sistine chapel so he could get to work on his, julius , tomb, which was never finished. despite his motivations, art flourishes under the della
rodrigo bribed his way into the papacy. the first thing he does is surround himself with a network he trusts. like many powerful men of the era and today, borgia places his family in the highest counsel. he had his sons marry in other provinces, he made one of his sons cardinal and gave him all sorts of church income. people tell us, how could these rivas take over vat tan
so he could get to work on his, julius tomb which was never finished. despite his motivations, art flourishes under the della rovere pope and the papacy becomes more powerful and stronger than ever. he is a warrior pope who goes into battle leading his own soldiers wearing silver armour. that is to aggrandize himself to some extent, but it is also a part of a papacy that has to be underpinned by power. pope julius ii continues flaunting the power of the papacy until his death in 1513. by then another powerful italian family has been patiently plotting to take over the papal throne, and the young banking heir will take renaissance opulence to levels of excess from which the church may never recover. it s the volkswagen smile, it s spring sales event, where you will find great deals on award-winning suvs,
creating a diplomatic empire, commissioning some of the greatest works of art the world has ever known, and reigning over one of the most depraved pap papacies in vatican history. a mosquito bites someone, and the entire 11 years of trying to build a dynasty collapses. it s gone. and within a year, the arch enemy has taken the papacy. just three months after his death, rodrigo borgia s archrivalry becomes pope julius ii.