Michelangelo
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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (Italian:
Michelangelo achieved fame early. Two of his best-known works, the Pietà and David, were sculpted before the age of thirty. Although he did not consider himself a painter, Michelangelo created two of the most influential frescoes in the history of Western art: the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, and The Last Judgment on its altar wall. His design of the Laurentian Library pioneered Mannerist architecture.[6] At the age of 71, he succeeded Antonio da Sangallo the Younger as the architect of St. Peter's Basilica. Michelangelo transformed the plan so that the Western end was finished to his design, as was the dome, with some modification, after his death.
Michelangelo was the first Western artist whose biography was published while he was alive.[3] Three biographies were published during his lifetime. One of them, by Giorgio Vasari, proposed that Michelangelo's work transcended that of any artist living or dead, and was "supreme in not one art alone but in all three."[7]
In his lifetime, Michelangelo was often called Il Divino ("the divine one").[8] His contemporaries admired his terribilità—his ability to instill a sense of awe in viewers of his art. Attempts by subsequent artists to imitate[9] the expressive physicality of Michelangelo's style contributed to the rise of Mannerism, a short-lived movement in Western art between the High Renaissance and the Baroque.
Life
Early life, 1475–1488
Michelangelo was born on 6 March 1475
Several months after Michelangelo's birth, the family returned to Florence, where he was raised. During his mother's later prolonged illness, and after her death in 1481 (when he was six years old), Michelangelo lived with a nanny and her husband, a stonecutter, in the town of Settignano, where his father owned a marble quarry and a small farm.[12] There he gained his love for marble. As Giorgio Vasari quotes him:
If there is some good in me, it is because I was born in the subtle atmosphere of your country of Arezzo. Along with the milk of my nurse I received the knack of handling chisel and hammer, with which I make my figures.[11]
Apprenticeships, 1488–1492
As a young boy, Michelangelo was sent to
The city of Florence was at that time Italy's greatest centre of the arts and learning.
During Michelangelo's childhood, a team of painters had been called from Florence to the Vatican to decorate the walls of the Sistine Chapel. Among them was Domenico Ghirlandaio, a master in fresco painting, perspective, figure drawing and portraiture who had the largest workshop in Florence.[16] In 1488, at age 13, Michelangelo was apprenticed to Ghirlandaio.[20] The next year, his father persuaded Ghirlandaio to pay Michelangelo as an artist, which was rare for someone of fourteen.[21] When in 1489, Lorenzo de' Medici, de facto ruler of Florence, asked Ghirlandaio for his two best pupils, Ghirlandaio sent Michelangelo and Francesco Granacci.[22]
From 1490 to 1492, Michelangelo attended the
Bologna, Florence, and Rome, 1492–1499
Lorenzo de' Medici's death on 8 April 1492 brought a reversal of Michelangelo's circumstances.
Between 1493 and 1494, he bought a block of marble, and carved a larger-than-life statue of
In the same year, the Medici were expelled from Florence as the result of the rise of
Michelangelo arrived in Rome on 25 June 1496[35] at the age of 21. On 4 July of the same year, he began work on a commission for Cardinal Riario, an over-life-size statue of the Roman wine god Bacchus. Upon completion, the work was rejected by the cardinal, and subsequently entered the collection of the banker Jacopo Galli, for his garden.[36][37]
In November 1497, the French ambassador to the Holy See, Cardinal
Florence, 1499–1505
Michelangelo returned to Florence in 1499. The
With the completion of the David came another commission. In early 1504 Leonardo da Vinci had been commissioned to paint
Also during this period, Michelangelo was commissioned by Angelo Doni to paint a "Holy Family" as a present for his wife, Maddalena Strozzi. It is known as the Doni Tondo and hangs in the Uffizi Gallery in its original magnificent frame, which Michelangelo may have designed.[45][46] He also may have painted the Madonna and Child with John the Baptist, known as the Manchester Madonna and now in the National Gallery, London.[47]
Tomb of Julius II, 1505–1545
In 1505 Michelangelo was invited back to Rome by the newly elected Pope Julius II and commissioned to build the Pope's tomb,[2] which was to include forty statues and be finished in five years.[48] Under the patronage of the pope, Michelangelo experienced constant interruptions to his work on the tomb in order to accomplish numerous other tasks.
The commission for the tomb forced the artist to leave Florence with his planned Battle of Cascina painting unfinished.[49][50][51] By this time, Michelangelo was established as an artist;[52] both he and Julius II had hot tempers and soon argued.[50][51] On 17 April 1506, Michelangelo left Rome in secret for Florence, remaining there until the Florentine government pressed him to return to the pope.[51]
Although Michelangelo worked on the tomb for 40 years, it was never finished to his satisfaction.
Sistine Chapel ceiling, 1508 –1512
During the same period, Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel,
The composition stretches over 500 square metres of ceiling
Florence under Medici popes, 1513 – early 1534
In 1513, Pope Julius II died and was succeeded by Pope Leo X, the second son of Lorenzo de' Medici.[53] From 1513 to 1516, Pope Leo was on good terms with Pope Julius's surviving relatives, so encouraged Michelangelo to continue work on Julius's tomb, but the families became enemies again in 1516 when Pope Leo tried to seize the Duchy of Urbino from Julius's nephew Francesco Maria I della Rovere.[59] Pope Leo then had Michelangelo stop working on the tomb, and commissioned him to reconstruct the façade of the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence and to adorn it with sculptures. He spent three years creating drawings and models for the façade, as well as attempting to open a new marble quarry at Pietrasanta specifically for the project. In 1520, the work was abruptly cancelled by his financially strapped patrons before any real progress had been made. The basilica lacks a façade to this day.[60]
In 1520, the Medici came back to Michelangelo with another grand proposal, this time for a family funerary chapel in the Basilica of San Lorenzo.
Pope Leo X died in 1521 and was succeeded briefly by the austere Adrian VI, and then by his cousin Giulio Medici as Pope Clement VII.[64] In 1524, Michelangelo received an architectural commission from the Medici pope for the Laurentian Library at San Lorenzo's Church.[53] He designed both the interior of the library itself and its vestibule, a building utilising architectural forms with such dynamic effect that it is seen as the forerunner of Baroque architecture. It was left to assistants to interpret his plans and carry out construction. The library was not opened until 1571, and the vestibule remained incomplete until 1904.[65]
In 1527, Florentine citizens, encouraged by the sack of Rome, threw out the Medici and restored the republic. A siege of the city ensued, and Michelangelo went to the aid of his beloved Florence by working on the city's fortifications from 1528 to 1529. The city fell in 1530, and the Medici were restored to power,[53] with the young Alessandro Medici as the first Duke of Florence. Pope Clement, a Medici, sentenced Michelangelo to death. It is thought that Michelangelo hid for two months in a small chamber under the Medici chapels in the Basilica of San Lorenzo with light from just a tiny window, making many charcoal and chalk drawings which remained hidden until the room was rediscovered in 1975, and opened to small numbers of visitors in 2023. Michelangelo was eventually pardoned by the Medicis and the death sentence lifted, so that he could complete work on the Sistine Chapel and the Medici family tomb. He left Florence for Rome in 1534.[66] Despite Michelangelo's support of the republic and resistance to the Medici rule, Pope Clement reinstated an allowance that he had previously granted the artist and made a new contract with him over the tomb of Pope Julius.[67]
Rome, 1534–1546
In Rome, Michelangelo lived near the church of
Shortly before his death in 1534, Pope Clement VII commissioned Michelangelo to paint a fresco of
Once completed, the depiction of Christ and the Virgin Mary naked was considered sacrilegious, and Cardinal Carafa and Monsignor Sernini (Mantua's ambassador) campaigned to have the fresco removed or censored, but the Pope resisted. At the Council of Trent, shortly before Michelangelo's death in 1564, it was decided to obscure the genitals and Daniele da Volterra, an apprentice of Michelangelo, was commissioned to make the alterations.[70] An uncensored copy of the original, by Marcello Venusti, is in the Capodimonte Museum of Naples.[71]
Michelangelo worked on a number of architectural projects at this time. They included a design for the
St Peter's Basilica, 1546–1564
While still working on the Last Judgment, Michelangelo received yet another commission for the Vatican. This was for the painting of two large frescos in the Cappella Paolina depicting significant events in the lives of the two most important saints of Rome, the
In 1546, Michelangelo was appointed architect of
As construction was progressing on St Peter's, there was concern that Michelangelo would pass away before the dome was finished. However, once building commenced on the lower part of the dome, the supporting ring, the completion of the design was inevitable.
On 7 December 2007, a red chalk sketch for the dome of St Peter's Basilica, possibly the last made by Michelangelo before his death, was discovered in the Vatican archives. It is extremely rare, since he destroyed his designs later in life. The sketch is a partial plan for one of the radial columns of the cupola drum of St Peter's.[77]
Personal life
Faith
Michelangelo was a devout Catholic whose faith deepened at the end of his life.
His poetry includes the following closing lines from what is known as poem 285 (written in 1554): "Neither painting nor sculpture will be able any longer to calm my soul, now turned toward that divine love that opened his arms on the cross to take us in."[82][83]
Personal habits
Michelangelo was abstemious in his personal life, and once told his apprentice, Ascanio Condivi: "However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man."[84] Michelangelo's bank accounts and numerous deeds of purchase show that his net worth was about 50,000 gold ducats, more than many princes and dukes of his time.[85] Condivi said he was indifferent to food and drink, eating "more out of necessity than of pleasure"[84] and that he "often slept in his clothes and ... boots."[84] His biographer Paolo Giovio says, "His nature was so rough and uncouth that his domestic habits were incredibly squalid, and deprived posterity of any pupils who might have followed him."[86] This, however, may not have affected him, as he was by nature a solitary and melancholy person, bizzarro e fantastico, a man who "withdrew himself from the company of men."[87]
Relationships and poetry
Love for a lady's different. Not much
in that for a wise and virile lover's trouble.— translation of Michelangelo work by John Frederick Nim
It is impossible to know whether Michelangelo had any physical relationships.[88] Understanding about his sexuality is rooted in his art, especially his poetry.[89] He wrote more than three hundred sonnets and madrigals. About sixty are addressed to men — "the first significant modern corpus of love poetry from one man to another".[90]
The longest sequence, displaying deep loving feeling, was written to the young Roman patrician
I feel as lit by fire a cold countenance
That burns me from afar and keeps itself ice-chill;
A strength I feel two shapely arms to fill
Which without motion moves every balance.— translation of Michelangelo work by Michael Sullivan
Cavalieri replied: "I swear to return your love. Never have I loved a man more than I love you, never have I wished for a friendship more than I wish for yours." Cavalieri remained devoted to Michelangelo until his death.[95]
In 1542, Michelangelo met
The nature of the poetry has been a source of discomfort to later generations. Michelangelo's grandnephew, Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger, published the poems in 1623 with the gender of pronouns changed; he also removed words or in other instances insisted that Michelangelo's poems be read allegorically and philosophically,[96][90] a judgment some modern scholars still repeat today.[95] It was not until John Addington Symonds translated the poems into English in 1893 that the original genders were restored. Since then it has become more accepted that his poems should be understood at face value, that is, as indicating his personal feelings and a preference by him for young men over women.[97]
Late in life, Michelangelo nurtured a friendship with the poet and noble widow Vittoria Colonna, whom he met in Rome in 1536 or 1538 and who was in her late forties at the time. They wrote sonnets for each other and were in regular contact until she died. These sonnets mostly deal with the spiritual issues that occupied them.[98] Condivi, who in his biography was preoccupied with downplaying Michelangelo's attraction to men,[90] alleged Michelangelo said his sole regret in life was that he did not kiss the widow's face in the same manner that he had her hand.[68]
Feuds with other artists
In a letter from late 1542, Michelangelo blamed the tensions between Julius II and him on the envy of Bramante and Raphael, saying of the latter, "all he had in art, he got from me". According to Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Michelangelo and Raphael met once: the former was alone, while the latter was accompanied by several others. Michelangelo commented that he thought he had encountered the chief of police with such an assemblage, and Raphael replied that he thought he had met an executioner, as they are wont to walk alone.[99]
Works
Madonna and Child
The Madonna of the Stairs is Michelangelo's earliest known work in marble. It is carved in shallow relief, a technique often employed by the master-sculptor of the early 15th century, Donatello, and others such as Desiderio da Settignano.[100] While the Madonna is in profile, the easiest aspect for a shallow relief, the child displays a twisting motion that was to become characteristic of Michelangelo's work. The Taddei Tondo of 1502 shows the Christ Child frightened by a Bullfinch, a symbol of the Crucifixion.[45] The lively form of the child was later adapted by Raphael in the Bridgewater Madonna. The Madonna of Bruges was, at the time of its creation, unlike other such statues depicting the Virgin proudly presenting her son. Here, the Christ Child, restrained by his mother's clasping hand, is about to step off into the world.[101] The Doni Tondo, depicting the Holy Family, has elements of all three previous works: the frieze of figures in the background has the appearance of a low-relief, while the circular shape and dynamic forms echo the Taddeo Tondo. The twisting motion present in the Madonna of Bruges is accentuated in the painting. The painting heralds the forms, movement and colour that Michelangelo was to employ on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.[45]
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The Madonna of the Stairs (1490–1492)
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The Taddei Tondo (1502)
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Madonna of Bruges (1504)
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The Doni Tondo (1504–1506)
Male figure
The kneeling
In the so-called
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Angel by Michelangelo, early work (1494–95)
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Bacchus by Michelangelo, early work (1496–1497)
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Dying Slave, Louvre (1513)
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Atlas Slave (1530–1534)
Sistine Chapel ceiling
The Sistine Chapel ceiling was painted between 1508 and 1512.[53] The ceiling is a flattened barrel vault supported on twelve triangular pendentives that rise from between the windows of the chapel. The commission, as envisaged by Pope Julius II, was to adorn the pendentives with figures of the twelve apostles.[108] Michelangelo, who was reluctant to take the job, persuaded the Pope to give him a free hand in the composition.[109] The resultant scheme of decoration awed his contemporaries and has inspired other artists ever since.[110] The scheme is of nine panels illustrating episodes from the Book of Genesis, set in an architectonic frame. On the pendentives, Michelangelo replaced the proposed Apostles with Prophets and Sibyls who heralded the coming of the Messiah.[109]
Michelangelo began painting with the later episodes in the narrative, the pictures including locational details and groups of figures, the Drunkenness of Noah being the first of this group.[109] In the later compositions, painted after the initial scaffolding had been removed, Michelangelo made the figures larger.[109] One of the central images, The Creation of Adam is one of the best known and most reproduced works in the history of art.[58] The final panel, showing the Separation of Light from Darkness is the broadest in style and was painted in a single day. As the model for the Creator, Michelangelo has depicted himself in the action of painting the ceiling.[109]
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The Drunkenness of Noah
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The Deluge (detail)
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The Creation of Adam (1510)
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The First Day of Creation
As supporters to the smaller scenes, Michelangelo painted twenty youths who have variously been interpreted as angels, as muses, or simply as decoration. Michelangelo referred to them as "ignudi".[111] The figure reproduced may be seen in context in the above image of the Separation of Light from Darkness. In the process of painting the ceiling, Michelangelo made studies for different figures, of which some, such as that for The Libyan Sibyl have survived, demonstrating the care taken by Michelangelo in details such as the hands and feet.[112] The Prophet Jeremiah, contemplating the downfall of Jerusalem, is a self-portrait.
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Studies for The Libyan Sibyl
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The Libyan Sibyl (1511)
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The Prophet Jeremiah (1511)
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Ignudo
Figure compositions
Michelangelo's relief of the
The composition of the Battle of Cascina is known in its entirety only from copies,[114] as the original cartoon, according to Vasari, was so admired that it deteriorated and was eventually in pieces.[115] It reflects the earlier relief in the energy and diversity of the figures,[116] with many different postures, and many being viewed from the back, as they turn towards the approaching enemy and prepare for battle.[citation needed]
In The Last Judgment it is said that Michelangelo drew inspiration from a fresco by Melozzo da Forlì in Rome's Santi Apostoli. Melozzo had depicted figures from different angles, as if they were floating in the Heaven and seen from below. Melozzo's majestic figure of Christ, with windblown cloak, demonstrates a degree of foreshortening of the figure that had also been employed by Andrea Mantegna, but was not usual in the frescos of Florentine painters. In The Last Judgment Michelangelo had the opportunity to depict, on an unprecedented scale, figures in the action of either rising heavenward or falling and being dragged down.[citation needed]
In the two frescos of the Pauline Chapel, The Crucifixion of St. Peter and The Conversion of Saul, Michelangelo has used the various groups of figures to convey a complex narrative. In the Crucifixion of Peter soldiers busy themselves about their assigned duty of digging a post hole and raising the cross while various people look on and discuss the events. A group of horrified women cluster in the foreground, while another group of Christians is led by a tall man to witness the events. In the right foreground, Michelangelo walks out of the painting with an expression of disillusionment.[citation needed]
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Battle of the Centaurs (1492)
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Copy of the lost Battle of Cascina by Bastiano da Sangallo
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The Last Judgment, detail of the Redeemed (see whole image above)
Architecture
Michelangelo's architectural commissions included a number that were not realised, notably the façade for Brunelleschi's Church of San Lorenzo in Florence, for which Michelangelo had a wooden model constructed, but which remains to this day unfinished rough brick. At the same church, Giulio de' Medici (later Pope Clement VII) commissioned him to design the Medici Chapel and the tombs of Giuliano and Lorenzo Medici.
In 1546 Michelangelo produced the highly complex ovoid design for the pavement of the
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The vestibule of the Laurentian Library has Mannerist features which challenge the Classical order of Brunelleschi's adjacent church.
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Michelangelo's redesign of the ancient Capitoline Hill included a complex spiralling pavement with a star at its centre.
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Michelangelo's design for St Peter's is both massive and contained, with the corners between the apsidal arms of the Greek Cross filled by square projections.
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The exterior is surrounded by a giant order of pilasters supporting a continuous cornice. Four small cupolas cluster around the dome.
Final years
In his old age, Michelangelo created a number of Pietàs in which he apparently reflects upon mortality. They are heralded by the Victory, perhaps created for the tomb of Pope Julius II but left unfinished. In this group, the youthful victor overcomes an older hooded figure, with the features of Michelangelo.
The Pietà of Vittoria Colonna is a chalk drawing of a type described as "presentation drawings", as they might be given as a gift by an artist, and were not necessarily studies towards a painted work. In this image, Mary's upraised arms and hands are indicative of her prophetic role. The frontal aspect is reminiscent of
In the Florentine Pietà, Michelangelo again depicts himself, this time as the aged Nicodemus lowering the body of Jesus from the cross into the arms of Mary his mother and Mary Magdalene. Michelangelo smashed the left arm and leg of the figure of Jesus. His pupil Tiberio Calcagni repaired the arm and drilled a hole in which to fix a replacement leg which was not subsequently attached. He also worked on the figure of Mary Magdalene.[120][121]
The last sculpture that Michelangelo worked on (six days before his death), the Rondanini Pietà, could never be completed because Michelangelo carved it away until there was insufficient stone. The legs and a detached arm remain from a previous stage of the work. As it remains, the sculpture has an abstract quality, in keeping with 20th-century concepts of sculpture.[122][123]
Michelangelo died in Rome on 18 February 1564,
Michelangelo's heir Lionardo Buonarroti commissioned
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Self-portrait of the artist as Nicodemus
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Statue of Victory (1534), Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
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The Pietà of Vittoria Colonna (c. 1540)
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The Rondanini Pietà (1552–1564)
Legacy
Michelangelo, with Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael, is one of the three giants of the Florentine High Renaissance. Although their names are often cited together, Michelangelo was younger than Leonardo by 23 years, and older than Raphael by eight. Because of his reclusive nature, he had little to do with either artist and outlived both of them by more than forty years.[citation needed] Michelangelo took few sculpture students. He employed Francesco Granacci, who was his fellow pupil at the Medici Academy, and became one of several assistants on the Sistine Chapel ceiling.[56] Michelangelo appears to have used assistants mainly for the more manual tasks of preparing surfaces and grinding colours. Despite this, his works were to have a great influence on painters, sculptors and architects for many generations to come.
While Michelangelo's David is the most famous male nude of all time, and copies of it now grace cities around the world, some of his other works have had perhaps even greater impact on the course of art. The twisting forms and tensions of the Victory, the Bruges Madonna and the Medici Madonna make them the heralds of the
Michelangelo's vestibule of the Laurentian Library was one of the earliest buildings to use classical forms in a plastic and expressive manner. This dynamic quality was later to find its major expression in his centrally planned St. Peter's, with its giant order, its rippling cornice and its upward-launching pointed dome. The dome of St. Peter's was to influence the building of churches for many centuries, including Sant'Andrea della Valle in Rome and St Paul's Cathedral, London, as well as the civic domes of many public buildings and the state capitals across America.
Artists who were directly influenced by Michelangelo include Raphael, whose monumental treatment of the figure in the
The Sistine Chapel ceiling was a work of unprecedented grandeur, both for its architectonic forms, to be imitated by many Baroque ceiling painters, and also for the wealth of its inventiveness in the study of figures. Vasari wrote:
The work has proved a veritable beacon to our art, of inestimable benefit to all painters, restoring light to a world that for centuries had been plunged into darkness. Indeed, painters no longer need to seek for new inventions, novel attitudes, clothed figures, fresh ways of expression, different arrangements, or sublime subjects, for this work contains every perfection possible under those headings.[115]
In popular culture
- Vita di Michelangelo (1964)
- The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965), directed by Carol Reed and starring Charlton Heston as Michelangelo[129]
- A Season of Giants (1990)[130][131][132]
- Michelangelo - Endless (2018), starring Enrico Lo Verso as Michelangelo[133]
- Sin (2019), directed by Andrei Konchalovsky[134]
See also
- Michelangelo and the Medici
- Italian Renaissance sculpture
- Italian Renaissance painting
- Michelangelo phenomenon
- Nicodemite
- Restoration of the Sistine Chapel frescoes
Footnotes
- a. ^ Michelangelo's father marks the date as 6 March 1474 in the Florentine manner ab Incarnatione. However, in the Roman manner, ab Nativitate, it is 1475.
- b. ^ Sources disagree as to how old Michelangelo was when he departed for school. De Tolnay writes that it was at ten years old while Sedgwick notes in her translation of Condivi that Michelangelo was seven.
- c. ^ The Strozzi family acquired the sculpture Hercules. Filippo Strozzi sold it to Francis I in 1529. In 1594, Henry IV installed it in the Jardin d'Estang at Fontainebleau where it disappeared in 1713 when the Jardin d'Estange was destroyed.
- d. ^ Vasari makes no mention of this episode and Paolo Giovio's Life of Michelangelo indicates that Michelangelo tried to pass the statue off as an antique himself.
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Further reading
- Ackerman, James (1986). The Architecture of Michelangelo. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-00240-8.
- Baldini, Umberto; Liberto Perugi (1982). The Sculpture of Michelangelo. Rizzoli. ISBN 978-0-8478-0447-4.
- Barenboim, Peter (with Shiyan, Sergey). Michelangelo in the Medici Chapel: Genius in Details (in English & Russian), LOOM, Moscow, 2011. ISBN 978-5-9903067-1-4
- Barenboim, Peter (with Heath, Arthur). Michelangelo's Moment: The British Museum Madonna, LOOM, Moscow, 2018.
- Barenboim, Peter (with Heath, Arthur). 500 years of the New Sacristy: Michelangelo in the Medici Chapel, LOOM, Moscow, 2019. ISBN 978-5-906072-42-9
- Carden, Robert W. (1913). Michelangelo: A Record of His Life as Told in His Own Letters and Papers. Constable and Company Ltd., London; reprinted by Legare Street Press, 2021.
- Colvin, Sidney (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). pp. 362–369.
- Einem, Herbert von (1973). Michelangelo. Trans. Ronald Taylor. London: Methuen.
- Gayford, Martin (2013). Michelangelo: His Epic Life. London: ISBN 978-0-141-93225-5.
- Gilbert, Creighton (1994). Michelangelo: On and Off the Sistine Ceiling. New York: George Braziller.
- Hartt, Frederick (1987). David by the Hand of Michelangelo—the Original Model Discovered, Abbeville, ISBN 0-89659-761-X
- Hibbard, Howard (1974). Michelangelo. New York: Harper & Row.
- Néret, Gilles (2000). Michelangelo. Taschen. ISBN 978-3-8228-5976-6.
- Pietrangeli, Carlo, et al. (1994). The Sistine Chapel: A Glorious Restoration. New York: Harry N. Abrams
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- Ryan, Chris (2000). "Poems for Tommaso Cavalieri, Poems for Vittoria Colonna". The Poetry of Michelangelo: An Introduction. London: ISBN 9780567012012.
- Sala, Charles (1996). Michelangelo: Sculptor, Painter, Architect. Editions Pierre Terrail. ISBN 978-2-87939-069-7.
- Saslow, James M. (1991). The Poetry of Michelangelo: An Annotated Translation. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
- Seymour, Charles, Jr. (1972). Michelangelo: The Sistine Chapel Ceiling. New York: W.W. Norton.
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- Summers, David (1981). Michelangelo and the Language of Art. Princeton University Press.
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- Wallace, William E. (2011). Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man and his Times. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-67369-4.
- Wallace, William E. (2019). Michelangelo, God's Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece. Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0-691-19549-0
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External links
- The Digital Michelangelo Project
- Works by Michelangelo at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Michelangelo at Internet Archive
- Works by Michelangelo at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- The BP Special Exhibition Michelangelo Drawings – closer to the master
- Michelangelo's Drawings: Real or Fake? How to decide if a drawing is by Michelangelo.
- "Michelangelo: The Man and the Myth"