During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes his mind and asks the sculptor to paint a mural in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo doubts his painting skills and abandons the project. Divine inspiration returns Michelangelo to the mural, but his artistic vision clashes with the pope's demanding personality and threatens the success of the historic painting.
as Michelangelo
as Papa Giulio II
as Contessina de'Medici
as Bramante
as Duca di Urbino
as Giovanni de' Medici
as Paride de Grassis
as Raffaello Sanzio
as Giuliano da Sangallo
as uomo
as Woman
as aiutante di Michelangelo
as contadino
as uomo alla cava
as guardia svizzera
as Cardinal
as Cardinal
as Seductive Woman (uncredited)
as Narrator (uncredited)
as Raphael
as Foreman
as Paris De Grassis
