We worry so much about sounding boring or silly if we were to show ourselves without elaboration or live according to our own less adorned inclinations.
Soon, Michelangelo's new style sparked an entire artistic movement called Mannerism — influencing artists throughout the 1500s to exaggerate and twist human bodies for dramatic effect.
He had obviously thought up his speech carefully beforehand, but the irony was overdone and the delivery that of an amateur actor: the whole scene was as unreal as a charade.