Michelangelo was paid 3000+ ducats to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling. That's about 10.5 kg or 23 pounds of gold total.

I'm just saying, he probably didn't do it for the exposure.

It shouldnt be; it's a very common thing on all of the right to bemoan the current state of art as dominated by postmodern trash, most of which is a full spectrum dowgrade from the art of ages past.

But thats the thing; we bemoan but most often they dont do anything about it, the old stuff of quality wasnt done for some "sake of the art" sentiments they were comissions. If the right wont comission anything they wont get anything but the left's art; because the left comissions.

Hence the comic.