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