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Michelangelo was moderate in his personal life, and once told his apprentice, Ascanio Condivi: "However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man." [ 84 ] Michelangelo's bank accounts and numerous deeds of purchase show that his net worth was about 50,000 gold ducats , more than many princes and dukes of his time. [ 85 ]
The original drawing by Michelangelo of the rape of Ganymede, the first image presented here, is lost and is known today only from copies. One drawing represents the myth of Phaeton, a son of Apollo who nagged his father into letting him drive the chariot of the sun that his father drove daily. Phaeton lost control of the fiery horses and to ...
Leonardo spent his first five years in the hamlet of Anchiano in the home of his mother, then from 1457 lived in the household of his father, grandparents and uncle, Francesco, in the small town of Vinci. His father had married a sixteen-year-old girl named Albiera; [8] Ser Piero married four times and produced children by his two later ...
Michelangelo, Dying Slave, commissioned in 1505 for the tomb of Pope Julius II. In 1527, the Florentine citizens, encouraged by the Sack of Rome, threw out the Medici and restored the Republic. A siege of the city ensued, and Michelangelo went to the aid of his beloved Florence by working on the city's fortifications from 1528–29.
Elizabeth and Dudley reportedly remained close until his death in 1588, and when the Queen died 15 years later, his last letter to her was found by her bedside.
It is the only piece Michelangelo ever signed. The sculpture captures the moment when Jesus, taken down from the cross, is given to his mother Mary. As is common in art, she looks younger than the mother of a man in his thirties; indeed, this Mary arguably looks younger than her son Jesus; art historians believe Michelangelo was inspired by a ...
John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis were one of America's most beloved and widely recognized couples — but their marriage wasn't without scandal — even before they wed. It's ...
Josephine died of pneumonia in the town of Rueil-Malmaison in France on May 29, 1814. After divorcing Napoleon, she lived in the Château de Malmaison, and although the two were no longer together ...