Editing Michelangelo (section)

===Tomb of Julius II, 1505–1545===
{{Main|Tomb of Pope Julius II}}
[[File:Michelangelo Second design for wall tomb for Julius II.jpg|thumb|Michelangelo's second design for the monument of [[Pope Julius II]]]]
In 1505 Michelangelo was invited back to Rome by the newly elected [[Pope Julius II]] and commissioned to build the [[Tomb of Pope Julius II|Pope's tomb]],<ref name="Marinazzo-2022a">{{Cite book |last=Marinazzo |first=Adriano |url=https://www.academia.edu/95119245 |title=Michelangelo: l'architettura |publisher=Giunti |year=2022 |isbn=978-8809954533 |page=}}</ref> which was to include forty statues and be finished in five years.<ref name="Goldscheider1962 14">{{cite book |last1=Buonarroti |first1=Michelangelo |last2=Goldscheider |first2=Ludwig |title=Michelangelo: Paintings, Sculptures, Architecture |year=1962 |publisher=Phaidon Publishers |page=14 |url=https://archive.org/details/michaelangelo0000unse_h2o4/page/14/mode/2up}}</ref> Under the patronage of the pope, Michelangelo experienced constant interruptions to his work on the tomb in order to accomplish numerous other tasks.<ref name="Marinazzo2025"/>

The commission for the tomb forced the artist to leave Florence with his planned ''Battle of Cascina'' painting unfinished.<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199532940.001.0001/acref-9780199532940|title=The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2009|isbn=978-0-19-953294-0|editor-last=Chilvers|editor-first=Ian|edition=4th|location=Online|language=en|chapter=Michelangelo (Michelangelo Buonarroti)|doi=10.1093/acref/9780199532940.001.0001}}</ref><ref name="Campbell-2005">{{Cite book|url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198601753.001.0001/acref-9780198601753|title=The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2005|isbn=978-0-19-860175-3|editor-last=Campbell|editor-first=Gordon|edition=Online|language=en|chapter=Michelangelo Buonarroti or Michelagnolo Buonarroti|doi=10.1093/acref/9780198601753.001.0001}}</ref><ref name="Osborne-2003">{{Cite book|last1=Osborne|first1=Harold|url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198662037.001.0001/acref-9780198662037|title=The Oxford Companion to Western Art|last2=Brigstocke|first2=Hugh|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2003|isbn=978-0-19-866203-7|editor-last=Brigstocke|editor-first=Hugh|edition=Online|language=en|chapter=Michelangelo Buonarroti|doi=10.1093/acref/9780198662037.001.0001}}</ref> By this time, Michelangelo was established as an artist;<ref>{{Cite book|last=Pater|first=Walter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OEVXiKyENo4C|title=The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry|publisher=Courier Corporation [2005, 2013 reprint]|year=2013|orig-year=First published 1893|isbn=978-0-486-14648-5|edition=4th|page=55|language=en}}</ref> both he and Julius II had hot tempers and soon argued.<ref name="Campbell-2005" /><ref name="Osborne-2003" /> On 17 April 1506, Michelangelo left Rome in secret for Florence, remaining there until the Florentine government pressed him to return to the pope.<ref name="Osborne-2003" />

Although Michelangelo worked on the tomb for 40 years, it was never finished to his satisfaction.<ref name="Goldscheider1962 14"/> It is located in the [[San Pietro in Vincoli|Church of San Pietro in Vincoli]] in Rome and is most famous for the central [[Moses (Michelangelo)|figure of Moses]], completed in 1516.<ref name="Bartz134" /> Of the other statues intended for the tomb, two, known as the ''[[Rebellious Slave]]'' and the ''[[Dying Slave]]'', are now in the [[Louvre Museum|Louvre]].<ref name="Goldscheider1962 14"/>