ENG(A)/ALTE SUMMARY

  MICHELANGELO THE PROSE MICHELANGELO IS WRITTEN BY GULZAR WHOSE REAL NAME IS SAMPOORAN SINGH KALRA ,WHO IS AN INDIAN SHORT STORY WRITER,A POET,AN AUTHOR.THIS STORY WAS WRITTEN IN HINDI AND THEN TRANSLATED IN ENGLISH BY ALOK BHALLA  HERE THE STORY STARTS WITH MICHELANGELO PAINTING THE SCENE OF "THE LAST SUPPER" AT THE SISTINE CHAPLE . MICHELANGELO WAS AWAY FROM FLORENCE FOR FIVE YEARS. WHEN HE CAME BACK HE TOLD THE POPE JULIUS II THAT THE FACES IN ROME ARE ALL THE SAME AND DON'T SEEM TO HAVE ANY CHARACTER.THEN POPE JULIUS ASKED MICHELANGELO THAT WHAT DOES HE SEE IN HIS FACE MICHELANGELO REPLIED "A BURNING CANDLE" SARCASTICALLY REPLYING TO MICHEL'S ANSWER POPE SAID THAT "HE WAS LIKE A CANDLE WHICH PEOPLE LIGHT UP IN THE CATHEDRAL WHEN THEY ARE IN TROUBLE". MICHELANGELO REMAINED IN ROME FOR FIVE YEARS AND HAD DRAWN SCENES FROM THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT. MICHELANGELO WAS TRYING TO SEARCH FOR A MODEL WHOSE FACE HE COULD USE TO DRAW THE FACE OF CHARACT...