The Agony and the Ecstasy Page #4
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- They haven't seen him since.
- Search the city!
Search the ships in every port.
Let it be known that I will put
any city or country...
a papal ban.
Florence in particular.
It is a pity this task has proved
too much for Michelangelo.
I would suggest another painter.
Such as Raphael de Santi of Urbino...
...who happens to be...
- Who happens by merest coincidence...
to be in my court today.
I have seen your work.
It shows promise.
You are no Florentine,
another point in your favor.
I'll have a commission for you, when
I return. An important commission.
But not the Ceiling.
Michelangelo will paint the Ceiling!
He will paint it or he will hang!
Game's over. Off to bed.
I'll come up later.
They have turned
the city upside down.
I know. They questioned
the servants this afternoon.
Julius says he'll hang him.
And if he doesn't, I will.
I've been ill all day.
Artists! They're all alike.
Conceited. Ungrateful. Faithless.
Michelangelo's vice
is too much faith.
He hasn't merely destroyed the fresco.
He's humiliated the Pope. Why?
He hated the idea of the fresco,
the lack of an idea.
- So he's gone to Constantinople.
- I don't believe he's gone there.
He... he is a fool.
But he's not a coward.
He's...
he's a strange man.
My dear sister,
don't let your regard for him...
...make a fool of you.
- My regard?
I'm not blind, Tessina.
You don't keep your secrets
as well as you think.
Whatever Michelangelo is doing,
he has his own reasons.
When Julius finds him, he is finished.
Whatever his reasons.
Have you seen Michelangelo
Buonarroti?
- No. No, I haven't seen him.
- Are you sure?
Of course I'm sure. He wouldn't
come around here, anyway.
Who is it?
- What do you want?
- Michelangelo, the Florentine.
- Is he here?
- Michelangelo?
We are informed that
you once knew him.
Yes, I knew him once, long ago.
When he first came to Bologna.
- He has not been here recently?
- Not for many years.
You are a fool, soldier,
to look for him here.
You can search the whole world,
you will never find Michelangelo...
in a house like this.
Michelangelo here.
Doesn't he ever stop worrying?
No. Not until he finds
what he's looking for.
- Look it!
- Look who's coming!
- Look!
- The Pope's men.
Here they come!
You there!
Have you seen Michelangelo?
Have you seen Michelangelo,
the Florentine?
You know he is here in Carrara.
Any of you?
Get away!
What are you waiting for?
Into the mountains. Go on! Go on!
You there! Above!
Have you seen Michelangelo,
the Florentine?
- Don't understand!
- Stupid peasants.
Come on!
Stop. Wait. Wait.
Let it go! Let it go!
Michelangelo!
Here take this!
Go on!
Follow me. Come on!
So God created man...
in His own image.
In the image of God
He created him.
Male and female.
And God said:
"Let the watersbring forth abundantly...
moving creatures that have life.
And fowl that may
fly above the Earth...
in the open firmament of heaven."
The envoy is returning.
Your Holiness,
the enemy has refused to talk.
Very well. If they want more
bloodshed be it on their heads.
- Prepare to attack.
- Yes, Your Holiness.
Prepare to attack!
Lancers to the westward!
Your Holiness.
- Where did you find him?
- Behind the lines, Your Holiness.
- He was trying to get through. I...
- He dragged me here like a criminal!
- Silence!
- I tell you, I was coming to see you.
- Where were you?
- Carrara, at the quarries.
- Doing what?
- Thinking.
All this time in Carrara, thinking!
I decided that your ideas
for the Sistine are unworthy.
In Carrara, at the quarries,
you've been thinking...
my ideas are unworthy
of your talent!
And of your chapel, Holiness.
I completed one panel.
- Part of another.
- I saw!
- You saw they were poor.
- Not in my judgment!
- Then your judgment is not mine.
- My son?
- In matters of art, yes, Holy Father.
The wine was sour.
I threw it out.
Let me show Your Holiness.
Holiness, the enemy
has found our range.
Will you give the order
to open fire?
- What is this?
- The Sacrifice of Noah.
- And this is the Flood.
- Yes.
And this?
That's the Expulsion from the
the Garden of Eden, the...
the Creation of Adam,
the Sun and the Moon.
Genesis.
Covering the entire ceiling, not
just the side panels as you planned.
You see, this is my plan
for the whole work.
Now, spacing the central panels
will be the...
pagan Sibyls and the Hebrew Prophets
who foresaw the coming of Christ.
- And below, the ancestors of Christ.
- And appropriate designs.
No. No appropriate designs.
I am not a decorator, Holiness.
With your permission, I'll cover
the entire vault with glory.
Your Holiness,
the men are in position to attack.
We must move now.
- How much time?
- Several months. Perhaps a year.
- There's five times as much work.
- And cost I suppose?
It won't be cheap.
Well, I'm in a mood to be
generous, Buonarroti.
I will double your grant.
Four thousand ducats.
- For five times the work?
- It's all I can afford!
It costs me more to paint a ceiling
than lay siege to a city!
thousand, Holiness.
- I'll give you five.
- Eight.
Six! Six thousand ducats.
My last word.
Would you bargain
with your pontiff?
- As you wish, Holy Father.
Less the rent of your house,
of course.
You will recall your assistants
from Florence?
No. I'll work alone.
It's the only way.
- And you will complete the work.
- I will complete it.
- Are you sure you can?
- I am sure.
Even though painting
is not your trade?
- I will make it my trade.
- Good.
To work, my son.
Give him an escort to Rome!
Your own Swiss Guards.
- I want him there alive.
- Very good, Your Holiness.
You see, I couldn't give you
something mediocre.
- Even if it's all you asked for.
- It's not what your Holiness planned.
No. I planned a ceiling.
He plans a miracle.
What are you waiting for? Attack!
Attack!
Open fire!
Come on.
- Master.
- What is it?
From the Vatican treasury.
It's my pay. At last.
It's a bill!
Two months' rent!
His Holiness sent me a bill
for two months' rent!
He hasn't even paid me for
six months! Six months!
When will you make an end?
When I am finished.
When will you make an end?
When I am finished.
I am sorry, Tessina.
I am truly sorry.
Why be sorry?
It was a great success!
I spent a delightful evening making
conversation with an empty chair.
- Slipped my mind, that.
It's taken me six months to collect
artists from France and Spain.
Scholars from Germany
and England.
All anxious to meet
the great Michelangelo.
I forgot!
I was working and I forgot!
I suppose I should
apologize to your brother.
the slightest courtesy from you.
Now I understand my brother,
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Submitted on August 05, 2018
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