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Michelangelo was commissioned by Julius II to produce
his tomb, which was planned to be the most magnificent of Christian
times. Michelangelo was asked to include 40 statutes to depict the glory
of the pope. So, he had to spend months in the quarries to obtain the
necessary Carrara marble. Due to a mounting shortage of money, however,
the pope ordered him to put aside the tomb project in favor of painting
the Sistine ceiling.
When Michelangelo went back to work on the tomb,
money forced the project to not be as grand. Michelangelo still made
some of his finest sculpture for the Julius Tomb, including the Moses
around 1515.
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Statute of Moses
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