History Film / Sin2019

* [[MsRedInk Mr. Red Ink]]: Michelangelo puts his family in Florence charge of his money... and they spend it in careless manners, leading him to get broke.

* AffluentAscetic: Michelangelo has amassed a significant fortune both in money and property due to being the most sought-after artist in Italy, but he lives extremely modestly: renting tiny rooms or houses, eating salt fish and other inexpensive food, and dressing in tattered old rags. This is partly because he knows that members of his family will squander his wealth, but it's also due to his belief in living a simple life and devoting himself entirely to his artwork.

* AmbiguouslyGay: The relationship between Michelangelo and his treacherous assistant Peppe, who turns on Michelangelo because "he no longer loves [him]." Whether Michelangelo and Peppe's relationship was Platonic or sexual is debatable. In life, Michelangelo greatly preferred men aesthetically and socially, but he lived such an ascetic and pious life that it's quite likely that he seldom if ever actually engaged in sexual acts of any kind.

* FanBoy: Michelangelo is a big admirer of Dante Alighieri. He's thrilled to be housed in the room the man once slept and worked in, and uses the room's SecretUndergroundPassage to go to the same rocky valley Dante went to.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: When Michelangelo and Sansovino are walking in the streets of Carrara, a couple is having sex standing up in the background. They don't even pay attention.

* MakingTheMasterpiece: A very unusual angle was chosen by the filmmaker here, might as well qualify as a slight {{subver|ted trope}}sion. At ''no point'' is Michelangelo seen sculpting something. At best, he polishes the knee of his ''Moses''. The crux of the film is his struggle to make the sculptures of Julius II's tomb as he's caught in-between power changes (the Medici family displacing the Della Rovere for the control of the Holy See and Italy after Julius II's death), and the work in the marble quarry (because yes, all that marble has to come from somewhere).

* [[invoked]]AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder: InUniverse, and not entirely caused by the artist himself. Michelangelo already struggles to finish painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel at the beginning, but ''then'' Pope Julius II orders him to sculpt an absurd amount of statues for a monumental tomb for himself. Then, while searching for a block of marble in Carrara, he decides to draw the young Maria for a future work.

The film depicts a few years of the life of one of the most famous artistic figures of the UsefulNotes/{{Ital|y}}ian [[UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance Renaissance]], painter and sculptor Creator/MichelangeloBuonarroti (played by Alberto Testone), in the early 16th century.

Michelangelo is depicted as a pious and argumentative artist who, although widely considered a genius by his contemporaries, is reduced to poverty and depleted by his struggle to finish the ceiling of the Art/SistineChapel. While painting the ceiling, he is also pressured to simultaneously complete the statues which are part of the tomb designed and intended for [[UsefulNotes/ThePope Pope]] [[UsefulNotes/PopeJuliusII Julius II]]. He then goes back and forth between the cities of UsefulNotes/{{Florence}}, UsefulNotes/{{Rome}} and Carrara, juggles the money he received for his orders and goes extracting a huge block of marble as the power feuds between Italian noble families of UsefulNotes/TheCityStateEra intensify. When Julius II dies, Michelangelo finds himself caught in the middle of said feuds since his artistic genius is sought after by each side.

* StarvingArtist: At the beginning, Michelangelo's father and brothers spend pretty much all of the money that he spared in many things that are not of "absolute necessity" as he pointed out to them, resulting in him being poor when working on the Sistine Chapel's ceiling and desperately waiting for the Pope's payment.

Michelangelo is depicted as a pious and argumentative artist who, although widely considered a genius by his contemporaries, is reduced to poverty and depleted by his struggle to finish the ceiling of the Art/SistineChapel. While painting the ceiling, he is also pressured to simultaneously complete the statues which are part of the tomb designed and intended for [[UsefulNotes/ThePope Pope]] [[UsefulNotes/PopeJuliusII Julius II]]. He then goes back and forth between the cities of UsefulNotes/{{Florence}}, UsefulNotes/{{Rome}} and Carrara, juggles the money he received for his orders and goes extracting a huge block of marble as the power feuds between Italian noble families of UsefulNotes/TheCityStateEra intensify. When Julius II dies, Michelangelo finds himself caught in the middle of said feuds since his genius is sought after by each side.