he was not chosen by a college of cardinals chosen by a holy man to be the leader of the universal church. he took the office he had hungered for by his ability to intimidate and almost immediately became a kind of egomaniac. pope julius ii still driven by spite and vengeance, makes it his personal mission to destroy everything his rival had built. he did go over board with nepotism, particularly with his son. chezere was basically given control of the kingdom, control of the army. after he becomes pope has chezere thrown in prison, stripped of his title and
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.
attraction. today over 5 million people 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 michaelangelo t 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,
holy man to be the leader of the the universal church. he took the office he had hungered for by his ability to intimidate and almost immediately became a kind of egomaniac. pope julius ii still driven by spite and vengeance, makes it his personal mission to destroy everything his rival had built. he did go over board with nepotism, particularly with his son. chezere was basically given control of the kingdom, control of the army. after he becomes pope has chezere thrown in prison, stripped of his title and eventually killed.