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

1492 - 1505

• 8th April 1492 death of Lorenzo, Michelangelo returns home

• Later was asked by Lorenzo’s elder son, Piero, to live in Casa de’ Medici and work for him

• 1494 left for Venice and Bologna

• Piero was expelled from Florence

• 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 Siena’s

cathedral• Commissioned by Pope Julius II, 12 statues of

Apostles for S.M. del Fiore

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

1521 - 1530

• Leo X dies in 1521 and is succeeded by Clement VII, Giuliano’s 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 Nove della Militizia

and governor of the fortificationsgovernor of the fortifications• 1530 – capitulation of Republic. M pardoned by 1530 – capitulation of Republic. M pardoned by

Pope Clement VIIPope Clement VII

Masterpieces of this period

• DavidDavid (symbol of young Florentine Republic)• Tondo DoniTondo Doni, now in the Uffizi• Cartoon for the Battle of CascinaBattle of Cascina in competition

with Leonardo in the salone de’ Cinquecento, Palazzo Vecchio (Never found)

• 4 Florentine slavesslaves• New Sacristy, Laurentian LibraryNew Sacristy, Laurentian Library with staircase

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 JudgementLast Judgement• Worked as chief architect of St. Peter’s and

on the Rondanini Pietà Rondanini Pietà• Died in 1564