Michelangelo refused to be paid for painting the Sistine Chapel.

The wooden scaffolds, plaster the ceiling, and transfer the cartoons to the wet plaster were constructed by Michelangelo.The painting was done by him.

He thought of himself as a sculptor.When Pope Julius II asked Michelangelo to paint frescoes on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, he said no because he had never painted a fresco before.

According to this source, the Sistine Chapel has two reasons, one of which is that Nippon TV funded the renovation of the artwork, and the other is the exclusive license to photograph and video the restored art.

He was paid 3000 ducats for painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, which was a lot of money at the time.He was paid 10 000 ducats for the tomb of Pope Julius II.

It has Renaissance frescoes by Michelangelo.The Sistine Chapel had great symbolic meaning for the papacy as the chief consecrated... The chapel's exterior is drab and unadorned, but its interior walls and ceiling are decorated with frescoes by many Florentine Renaissance masters.

The 'Sistine' Chapel is called that because of it's name.The Sistine Chapel is named after Sixtus IV, the pope who commissioned it in the 1470s.

Michelangelo had contempt for being commissioned to paint "The Last Judgement" because he did a self portrait of himself as St. Bartholomew after he had been skinned alive.

The Sistine Chapel was hard for Michelangelo to work on.Michelangelo had to lay on his back 80 feet above the floor for four years to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.At night he painted by using candle light.He was tired, gloomy, and anxious.

Michelangelo refused the commission because he disagreed with Julius' vision of what the painting should look like, and he considered himself a sculptor, not a painter.After Julius agreed to let Michelangelo paint the chapel his way, he took the job.

The very proud Michelangelo carved, "MICHELANGELO BUONAROTTI MADE THIS," into the sash of the Virgin, when the first people to see his St. Peter's Pieta were wrongly ascribing the work to another artist.The Sistine Chapel was being painted by Michelangelo when he became angry with the Cardinal.