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Michelangelo threatened to quit unless the ceiling “matched his mood.” Renaissance HR was stressful.

✗ FAKE
Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling from 1508 to 1512 for Pope Julius II. There is no record of him demanding it match his mood.

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