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Did you know that Michelangelo was not the obvious choice as the perfect man to paint the Sistine Chapel. As Eric Weiner puts it in his marvelous book "Geography of Genius": "Michelangelo was best known as a sculptor, not a painter. Yes, he had done some painting, but primarily small pieces - little in the way of frescoes and nothing on this scale. Yet Pope Julius II chose Michelangelo for the job. The pope was adhering to the Medici philosophy of patronage: choose someone who is clearly talented, then assign him an impossible task - do so even if he seems like a bad fit, especially if he seems like a bad fit."
Source: Eric Weiner, 2016, Geography of Genius, p.120
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