Talk:Art patronage of Julius II

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Motives for patronage[edit]

All of the references in this section are to a single text, Gosman. However, Gosman is listed as merely the editor, thus, it is possible that whoever cobbled this section together (it is very ungrammatical in places, and needs a clarifying rewrite), was using multiple essays taken from Gosman's collection. If that is the case, then the actual author should be cited, and those names should then be added to the list as Writer X, in Gosman, ed, followed by the page references. As it is, the citations are useless because they do not identify the actual writers. Theonemacduff (talk) 07:21, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sistine Chapel

The work shown in the article is the Last Judgment and was painted, by Michelangelo long after the death of Julius. It would be better to show the ceiling Creation from Genesis commissioned by Julius. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.211.65.13 (talk) 04:25, 11 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Editing[edit]

I revised the first paragraph, which read: The papacy of Pope Julius II (Giuliano della Rovere), at the beginning of the sixteenth century, was an important period for the patronage of the arts in Italy, especially the visual arts, and Julius was one of the most active and significant patrons of his time.

Some of the ideas were redundant. Also I think the pope's patronage was prominent, not only because he spent money, but because he engaged highly influential artists in highly influential works.