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For several generations, his family had been small-scale bankers in Florence; but the bank failed, and his father Ludovico briefly took a government post in Caprese. [3] At the time of Michelangelo's birth, his father was the town's judicial administrator and podestà (local administrator) of Chiusi della Verna.
After the deaths of his father in 1524, and his older brother, Emilio, in 1536, Tommaso became the official head of the Cavalieri household. His first position in Roman government was caporione of his neighborhood of Sant'Eustachio, which he took in 1539. It was noted that compared to his peers, Cavalieri did not participate in civic government ...
Most likely he was destined for a career in Florence, but when his father died in 1591, the sixteen-year-old lutenist was put in the charge of his older brother Galileo Galilei, who was in Padua. Some other employment had to be found for Michelagnolo, so in 1593 he went to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth , where foreign musicians were much ...
‘His work becomes, in the last 10 years, very introspective and very poignant,’ said curator Sarah Vowles Michelangelo, beyond the Sistine Chapel: British Museum explores last decades of ...
Charles Dance is set to play Italian artist Michaelangelo in new BBC docu-drama “Renaissance: The Blood and The Beauty.” Dance’s casting in the three-part series came as the BBC unveiled its ...
Michelangelo had hoped this would be by his tombThe unfinished sculpture has now been restored after 470 yearsby experts at Florence’s Opera del Duomo MuseumMichelangelo worked on ‘Bandini ...
When Michelangelo was only fourteen, his father persuaded Ghirlandaio to pay his apprentice as an artist, which was highly unusual at the time. [3] When in 1489 Lorenzo de' Medici ("Lorenzo il Magnifico), de facto ruler of Florence, asked Ghirlandaio for his two best pupils, Ghirlandaio sent Michelangelo and Francesco Granacci. [3]
In 1553 he published Vita di Michelagnolo Buonarroti, [1] an authorised account of Michelangelo's life over which his subject had complete control. The Vita was partly a rebuttal of hostile rumours that were being perpetuated about the artist, namely that he was arrogant, avaricious, jealous of other artists, and reluctant to take on pupils.