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1. Death and life of Michelangelo -- 2. Buonarroti -- 3. Unruly apprenticeship -- 4. Medici -- 5. Antiquities -- 6. Piero de Medici and flight to Bologna -- 7. Rome, Cupid, Bacchus and the Pieta -- 8. David and other bodies -- 9. Michelangelo versus Leonardo -- 10. Giants and slaves -- 11. Vault -- 12. Incarnation -- 13. Roman rivalry -- 14. Marble mountains -- 15. Tombs -- 16. New fantasies -- 17. Revolt -- 18. Love and exile -- 19. Judgement -- 20. Reform -- 21. Dome -- 22. Defeat and victory.;There was an epic sweep to Michelangelos life. At 31 he was considered the finest artist in Italy, perhaps the world; long before he died at almost 90 he was widely believed to be the greatest sculptor or painter who had ever lived (and, by his enemies, to be an arrogant, uncouth, swindling miser). For decade after decade, he worked near the dynamic centre of events: the vortex at which European history was changing from Renaissance to Counter Reformation. Few of his works - including the huge frescoes of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling, the marble giant David and the Last Judgment - were small or easy to accomplish. Like a hero of classical mythology he was subject to constant trials and labours. In Michelangelo Martin Gayford describes what it felt like to be Michelangelo Buonarroti, and how he transformed forever our notion of what an artist could be. Martin Gayford has been art critic of the Spectator and the Sunday Telegraph. Among his publications are: The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles

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Martin Gayford
MICHELANGELO
His Epic Life
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FIG TREE

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First published 2013

Copyright Michael Gayford, 2013

The acknowledgements constitute an extension of this copyright page

Every effort has been made to trace copyright holders and to obtain their permission for the use of copyright material. The publisher apologizes for any errors or omissions and would be greatful to be notified of any corrections that should be incorporated in future editions of this book

The moral right of the author has been asserted

All rights reserved

Typeset by Jouve (UK), Milton Keynes
Colour reproduction by TAG Publishing

ISBN: 978-0-141-93225-5

Contents

By the same author

The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin
and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles
Constable in Love: Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter
Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud
A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney

The Penguin Book of Art Writing
(with Karen Wright, eds.)

To my mother Doreen Gayford (19202013) and my father-in-law
Donald Morrison (19202013), in memoriam.

THE BUONARROTI FAMILY IN THE LATE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES

A SIMPLIFIED FAMILY TREE OF THE MEDICI FAMILY IN THE FIFTEENTH AND EARLY - photo 6

A SIMPLIFIED FAMILY TREE OF THE MEDICI FAMILY IN THE FIFTEENTH AND EARLY SIXTEENTH CENTURIES

List of Popes in Michelangelos Lifetime Sixtus IV Francesco della Rovere 9 - photo 7
List of Popes in Michelangelos Lifetime Sixtus IV Francesco della Rovere 9 - photo 8
List of Popes in Michelangelos Lifetime

Sixtus IV (Francesco della Rovere):
9 August 147112 August 1484

Innocent VIII (Giovanni Battista Cybo):
29 August 148425 July 1492

Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia):
11 August 149218 August 1503

Pius III (Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini):
22 September 150318 October 1503

Julius II (Giuliano della Rovere):
31 October 150321 February 1513

Leo X (Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici):
9 March 15131 December 1521

Adrian VI (Adriaan Floriszoon Boeyens):
9 January 152214 September 1523

Clement VII (Giulio di Giuliano de Medici):
18 November 152325 September 1534

Paul III (Alessandro Farnese):
13 October 153410 November 1549

Julius III (Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte):
8 February 155023 March 1555

Marcellus II (Marcello Cervini):
9 April 155530 April or 1 May 1555

Paul IV (Giovanni Pietro Carafa):
23 May 155518 August 1559

Pius IV (Giovanni Angelo Medici):
26 December 15599 December 1565

List of Illustrations
CHAPTER 1

, fresco, Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome.

, leadpoint and black chalk, The Teyler Museum, Haarlem.

, fresco, Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome.

CHAPTER 2

, pen over black chalk, The British Museum, London.

, Sistine Chapel ceiling, Vatican, Rome.

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, Sistine Chapel ceiling, Vatican, Rome.

, photo: the author.

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CHAPTER 3

, pen, ink and wash on paper, Uffizi, Florence.

, Brancacci Chapel, Florence.

, Santa Maria Novella, Florence; detail of group on right showing Ghirlandaio and associates.

, Santa Trinita, Florence.

, pen, Muse du Louvre, Paris.

, pen over black chalk, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

, engraving.

, Kimbell Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas.

CHAPTER 4

, fresco, Santa Trinita, Florence.

, Muse Bonnat, Bayonne.

, pen, Albertina, Vienna.

, photo: Cardozo-Kindersley Studio, Cambridge.

, marble, unfinished, Galleria dell Accademia, Florence.

CHAPTER 5

, marble, Casa Buonarroti, Florence; detail of left-hand side.

, fresco, Santa Trinita, Florence; detail: Angelo Poliziano and the Sons of Lorenzo de Medici.

, marble, Casa Buonarroti, Florence.

, cameo cup, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples.

, marble, Casa Buonarroti, Florence.

CHAPTER 6

, polychrome wood, Santo Spirito, Florence.

, polychrome wood, Santo Spirito, Florence.

, Museo di San Marco dell Angelo, Florence.

, marble, Arca of San Domenico, San Domenico, Bologna.

CHAPTER 7

, marble, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence; detail of satyr.

, marble, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence.

, tempera on panel, unfinished, National Gallery, London.

, marble, Basilica di San Pietro, Vatican, Rome.

CHAPTER 8

, marble, Galleria dell Accademia, Florence; detail of upper body.

, tempera on panel, unfinished, National Gallery, London.

, marble, Galleria dell Accademia, Florence.

, marble, Galleria dell Accademia, Florence; detail of head.

, fresco, Santa Trinita, Florence. Detail of background showing Loggia dei Lanzi and Piazza della Signoria before the installation of Michelangelos David.

, pen and black chalk, Royal Library, Windsor.

CHAPTER 9

, black chalk heightened with lead white, The Teyler Museum, Haarlem.

, oil on canvas, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence.

, pen, Muse du Louvre, Paris.

, oil on walnut, private collection, on loan to the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh.

, marble, Royal Academy, London.

, marble, Onze Lieve Vrouwekerk, Bruges.

, pen and brown wash, British Museum, London.

, pen over black chalk, The British Museum, London.

CHAPTER 10

, pen, wash and red chalk, Uffizi, Florence.

, oil on panel, Accademia Carrara, Bergamo.

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