How dare him!! Where does he get the nerve? To paint me in
Pope Julius’s library, and in my own style! That little Raphael knows what he’s
doing. He’s trying to psych me out, to make me fail on the Sistine Chapel. Well,
it won’t work! I've worked too hard to sit around and let a rookie take my
place in Rome! I was born from nothing but thankfully the Medici family took me
in and gave me the proper schooling I needed. My apprentices think I’m paranoid
but they are probably in on it too. Those sneaky little rats! I must calm down
and act unaffected by this problem known as Raphael. He told me that he only
painted me to honor me that he respects me. LIES!!!!! I know it! I can feel it in
my blood. My grandmother had a sixth sense you know. I can tell it is running
through my veins! Raphael painting the school of Athens and the guy even had
the nerve to paint himself! So if he can do it so will I!
Cardinal Carafa came and saw my unfinished work and got
highly upset. Why you must ask? Because I painted all the angels and God nude. I
don’t understand how this is offensive, when God created Adam and Eve they were
both naked and only got ashamed of it when they sinned. So Cardinal Carafa,
have you sinned? That’s why you’re ashamed? I want you to go and try to paint
for four years on one project. So while the Pope was away Carafa came and made
people paint cloth or fig leaves over the art. So I painted Carafa going to
hell, which is his fault for censoring my art. At this point I don’t even care. No one can
appreciate me anymore since Raphael came.
I did not even want to paint this chapel. I am not a painter,
I am more of a sculptor or logical thinker. The stress of the Sistine Chapel is
taking a toll on me, I feel like standing like this for long periods of time
have made me gone insane. I have spent four years of my life on this project.
How can I ever recover from this? I have painted myself as a glob of loose skin
depicting how this job has affected me mentally and physically. I also painted
myself halfway to hell and halfway to heaven because I have no idea where I
will go when I perish. I just want to get back working on the tomb for Pope
Julius II but he asked me to work on this chapel instead. I cannot wait to be
done with this and move on with my life before it is over.....
Signed, Michelangelo (Myriah Catalano)
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