Michelangelo 14751564

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Michelangelo 1475-1564

• Born in Caprese near Arezzo, today Caprese
  Michelangelo
• 1488 apprenticed to Domenico del Ghirlandaio for
  3 years
• 1489-1490 continued his studies in the Medici
  garden museum, near San Marco
• Became friend of Lorenzo de Medici

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1492 - 1505

• 8th April 1492 death of Lorenzo, Michelangelo
  returns home
• Later was asked by Lorenzos elder son, Piero,
  to live in Casa de Medici and work for him
• 1494 left for Venice and Bologna
• Piero was expelled from Florence

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• 1495 went back to Florence
• 1496 1501 Rome under the patronage of Cardinal
  Riario
• 1497 went to Carrara for the first time to
  quarry marble for the Pieta
• 1501- returned to Florence now a Republic
• Piccolomini commissions statues for altar of
  Sienas cathedral
• Commissioned by Pope Julius II, 12 statues of
  Apostles for S.M. del Fiore

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1505 1520

• 1505-8 Summoned to Rome by Julius II and
  commissioned to build his tomb.
• Julius then commissioned him to paint the vault
  of the Sistine Chapel (unveiled 1512)
• 1512 The Medici return to Florence
• 1513 Leo X (second son of Lorenzo) becomes pope
• Contract from Pope for facade of San Lorenzo and
  again for Julius II tomb
• 1520 Plans for the Medici Chapels/ New Sacristy

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1521 - 1530

• Leo X dies in 1521 and is succeeded by Clement
  VII, Giulianos son, in 1523
• M works on Medici tombs, New sacristy, Laurentian
  library
• 1527-29 Sack of Rome by Imperial troops
• Medici expelled from Florence
• Michelangelo elected to the Nove della Militizia
  and governor of the fortifications
• 1530 capitulation of Republic. M pardoned by
  Pope Clement VII

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Masterpieces of this period

• David (symbol of young Florentine Republic)
• Tondo Doni, now in the Uffizi
• Cartoon for the Battle of Cascina in competition
  with Leonardo in the salone de Cinquecento,
  Palazzo Vecchio (Never found)
• 4 Florentine slaves
• New Sacristy, Laurentian Library with staircase

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1534-1564

• 1534 went to live in Rome for good
• 1535 appointed chief sculptor, painter and
  architect of Pope Paul III, protagonist of the
  Counter-reformation
• 1536 - 1541 painted Last Judgement
• Worked as chief architect of St. Peters and on
  the Rondanini Pietà
• Died in 1564