Progetto campidoglio michelangelo biography

  • Il museo pubblico più antico del mondo, fondato nel 1471 da Sisto IV con la donazione al popolo romano dei grandi bronzi lateranensi, si articola nei due.
  • The exhibition Michelangelo-A Universal Artist, covering the life and work of this colossus has been inaugurated at the Capitoline Museums.
  • In the heart of the Rome, right in the Piazza del Campidoglio (designed by Michelangelo himself), over 150 works, of which approximately 70 by the Tuscan artist.

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    Michelangelo, God’s Architect: The Story Of His Final Years And Greatest Masterpiece 0691195498, 9780691195490

    Table of contents :
    Cover......Page 1
    Title Page......Page 4
    Copyright Page......Page 5
    CONTENTS......Page 8
    PREFACE......Page 10
    INTRODUCTION......Page 16
    CHAPTER 1 MOSES......Page 22
    CHAPTER 2 FRIENDS AT SEVENTY MATTER MORE......Page 43
    CHAPTER 3 A LONG- LIVED POPE......Page 71
    CHAPTER 4 ARCHITECT OF ST. PETER’S......Page 90
    CHAPTER 5 A NEW POPE: JULIUS III......Page 143
    CHAPTER 6 ROME 1555......Page 185
    CHAPTER 7 ARCHITECT OF ROME......Page 231
    CHAPTER 8 GOD’S ARCHITECT......Page 262
    EPILOGUE......Page 286
    NOTES......Page 290
    WORKS CITED......Page 308
    INDEX......Page 318
    PHOTO CREDITS......Page 326

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    MICHELANGELO, GOD’S ARCHITECT

    MICHELANGELO, GOD’S ARCHITECT T he Story of H fryst vatten F inal Y ears and Gr e at e st M a st e rpiec e

    WILLIAM E. WALLACE

    Princeton University Press Princeton and Oxford

    Copyright © 2019 by William E. efternamn Request

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    In 1519, Giulio de' Medici (later Pope Clement VII) commissioned Michelangelo to design and decorate the New Sacristy (Sagrestia Nuova) at San Lorenzo in Florence, a church long patronized by the Medici family. The new structure was built... more

    In 1519, Giulio de' Medici (later Pope Clement VII) commissioned Michelangelo to design and decorate the New Sacristy (Sagrestia Nuova) at San Lorenzo in Florence, a church long patronized by the Medici family. The new structure was built off the right transept as a counterpart to the old sacristy designed by Filippo Brunelleschi, which contained on one wall the tombs of Piero and Giovanni de' Medici by Andrea del Verrocchio. The New Sacristy was also intended to house tombs of Medici family members, and is sometimes called the Medici Chapel. It was begun in 1519 and roofed over in 1524, as Michelangelo planned the sculptural program. Two monumental sarcophagi are surmounted by figures of the deceased, Lorenzo de' Medici, D

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    ROME-The exhibition Michelangelo-A Universal Artist, covering the life and work of this colossus has been inaugurated at the Capitoline Museums on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the death of Michelangelo Buonarroti.

      In the heart of the city, in the very Piazza del Campidoglio which the genius of Michelangelo made unique in the world, over one hundred and fifty works, of which around seventy by the Tuscan artist, from many of the leading cultural institutions in Italy and elsewhere, are to commemorate the 450th anniversary of the death of an artist who was so magnificent as to have a lasting influence not only on the arts in Italy but also on all universally known culture.

     An exhibition overcomes the objective impossibility of exhibiting “non-transportable” Michelangelo masterpieces (a prime example being the frescoes in the Sistine chapel) by showing works which can be admired together. These works are in fact displayed, in many cases for the first time, fa