Who is Pope Julius II?

Giuliano Della Rovere, born in poverty at Albisola in Liguria in 1443, became one of the most powerful of the Renaissance popes. Pope Julius II devoted himself to the mission of becoming master in the papal kingdom.  In full armour, and taking the lead, he won back most of Romagna and captured Bologna and Perugia from their tyrannical rulers. Joined with the League of Cambria in 1508, Pope Julius II defeated Venice so completely that it surrendered Rimini and Faenza as well. Pope Julius II was a true patron of the arts and in effect moved the capital of the Renaissance from Florence to Rome. With Pope Julius II’s influence, three Renaissance artists left their indelible imprint: Bramante, with his grandiose plan for reconstruction of the Vatican, Raphael, with his frescoes in the palazzo of Pope Nicholas V, and Michelangelo, with his remarkable masterpieces in the Sistine Chapel. Pope Julius II oversaw Via Giulia, the first rectangular Roman street. Before his death, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to create his mausoleum where it stands in his titular church Saint Peter in Chains.

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