The Agony and The Ecstasy (1965)
 The
historical inaccuracies in the movie are abundant.
There is no record of Michelangelo's having been ministered to
in times of illness by any contessinas, beautiful or otherwise,
and most Renaissance historians agree that the real Michelangelo
would have probably been more interested in a male nurse anyway .
. .
Other fanciful or fraudulent moments in Agony include
Michelangelo's angry destruction of his first attempt at the
chapel and his vision of what the true completion of his work
should look like, which is glimpsed one morning in a gloriously
arranged mural of cloud banks.
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