by | Sep 11, 2010 | Michelangelo Buonarroti
1475 … Michelangelo Buonarroti was born on March 6 in Caprese, a village near Florence, during his father’s short term as mayor and local magistrate. The family soon returns to Florence. The infant Michelangelo is placed in the care of a foster-mother in a town five...
by Rob Jollymore | Sep 11, 2010 | Michelangelo Sculptures
The Rondanini Pieta (By Michelangelo ca.1552/53-64; height 74”) This is the last marble sculpture upon which Michelangelo worked during the last weeks of his life in 1564. It is now in the collection of the Castello Sforzesco in Milan. Daniele da Volterra wrote that...
by Rob Jollymore | Sep 11, 2010 | Michelangelo Sculptures
The Florentine Pietá, also known as “The Deposition” (1547–1553; height: 93 inches) Museo dell’Opera del Duomo. Michelangelo is estimated to have been 73 years old when he began work on this Pieta, which was destined to be placed in Santa Maria del Fiore, the...
by Rob Jollymore | Sep 11, 2010 | Michelangelo Sculptures
The Medici Madonna (1521–1534; height 83 inches) Medici Chapel, San Lorenzo, in Florence. Michelangelo left this marble group of a Madonna and her child unfinished in his Florentine studio when he departed for Rome in 1534. Although it was not installed until years...
by Rob Jollymore | Sep 11, 2010 | Michelangelo Sculptures
Bust of Giuliano De’ Medici (1519; height 25 ½ inches) In 1519, Michelangelo was commissioned by Pope Leo X and his cousin, Cardinal Giulio de Medici (later Pope Clement VII), to create the marble portraits of Lorenzo and Giuliano de Medici for the family’s Chapel San...
