For Michelangelo, Painting The Sistine Chapel Was Literally A Pain

Today in 1475 Michelangelo was born. One of his masterworks was the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, though if a poem he wrote about the job is to be believed, making all that great art was pretty painful. Plus: a series of portraits of every US president with a mullet. Labor Pains (Slate) every american president, but  they're all cool and they all sport a mullet (Cam Harless on Twitter) Painting the Sistine Chapel is hard. Supporting this show on Patreon is easy!