God spoke to Noah and his sons: Genesis 1, 9:8–11.
“He preached in the church of Santa Reparata”: Klaczko, Rome and the Renaissance, 282.
“[H]e insisted on having it uncovered”: Condivi, Life of Michelangelo, 103–4.
“[They] are trying to reduce me to nothing”: Pastor, History of the Popes, VI, 326.
“the Rovere are a peasant family”: King, Michelangelo and the Pope ’s Ceiling, 137.
“I’ll see if I’ve balls as big”: Jones and Penny, Raphael, 50.
“has gone away”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 55.
withdrawing without his permission: See Michelangelo, Letters, I, 60.
Giovan Simone: Michelangelo, Carteggio, I, 95–96.
“a man perfect in his generation”: Augustine, City of God, 516.
“God fashioned man of dust from the soil”: Genesis 2:7.
“lovely art that, heaven sent”: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 157.
“[G]ood painting is nothing else”: Holanda, Dialogues with Michelangelo, 47.
“I work harder than any man”: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 370.
“I expect to finish by the end of September”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 71.
“so weakened and dispirited”: Guicciardini, History of Italy, 252.
“flying like mist in the wind”: Unger, Machiavelli: A Biography, 190.
“We have won, [Paride]”: Pastor, History of the Popes, VI, 416.
“Never was any emperor”: King, Michelangelo and the Pope ’s Ceiling, 274.
You have succumbed to rumors: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 72–73.
“I finished painting the chapel”: Michelangelo, Carteggio, I, 137.
“our chapel was opened”: Bull, Michelangelo: A Biography, 99.
“It was seen with great satisfaction”: Condivi, Life of Michelangelo, 104–5.
V. THE DEAD
“negotiations are already beginning”: Pastor, History of the Popes, VI, 434.
“I have lived forty years”: Ibid., 437.
“[a] house of several stories”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, xxiv.
“the son of poor but honest people”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 82.
“a lamb rather than . . . a fierce lion”: Pastor, History of the Popes, VII, 26–27.
“As God has seen fit”: Unger, Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de ’ Medici, 446.
“a pitiable spectacle of calamity”: Machiavelli et al., Machiavelli and His Friends: Their Personal Correspondence, 216.
“although it has given me pain”: Unger, Machiavelli: A Biography, 194.
“evil plight”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 71.
“[T]here are rumors going about”: Michelangelo, Carteggio, I, 139.
“I know the high regard the Pope has for you”: Michelangelo, Carteggio, II, 253.
“I do not doubt this”: Michelangelo, Carteggio, II, 247.
“[that] judged that in the whole field”: Vasari, Lives, II, 142.
“steal[ing] at least three ducats”: Klaczko, Rome and the Renaissance, 118.
“[c]arry out your vendettas”: Goffen, Renaissance Rivals, 171.
“I remember that when Sebastiano”: Goffen, Renaissance Rivals, 228.
“All the world will know”: Bull, Michelangelo: A Biography, 229–30.
“[T]he scarpellini from here”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 123.
“vexations, annoyances, and travails”: Vasari, Lives, II, 676.
“like flocks of starlings”: Vasari, Lives, II, 661.
“I must make a great effort here”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 90.
“[H]is entrance was greeted”: Bull, Michelangelo: A Biography, 130.
“all for things of no duration”: Landucci, Diary, 285.
“Pope Leo X”: Vasari, Lives, II, 676.
“Michael Angelo”: Condivi, Life of Michelangelo, 107–9.
“When, in fifteen hundred and sixteen”: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 426–27.
“in order to give lie”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 253.
“Now, from your last letter”: Michelangelo, Carteggio I, 219–20.
“The cardinal doesn’t put faith in anyone”: Goffen, Renaissance Rivals, 228.
“I’m always ready to risk life and limb”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 135.
“that he never thought of becoming”: Goffen, Renaissance Rivals, 243.
“a cage for crickets”: Vasari, Lives, II, 57.
“I came to Florence”: Michelangelo, Carteggio, I, 267.
“I am eager to tackle this work”: Michelangelo, Carteggio, I, 277.
“As to your saying how eager”: Michelangelo, Carteggio, I, 281.
“not accept[ing] anyone beyond himself”: Vasari, Lives, II, 677.
“the Pope and the Monsignore [Giulio]”: Michelangelo, Carteggio, I, 315.
“Not having been able to speak with you”: Michelangelo, Carteggio, I, 291.
“[T]he reason [Michelangelo] never supplied”: Hirst, Michelangelo: The Achievement of Fame, 328 (note).
“I have undertaken to rouse the dead”: de Tolnay, Medici Chapel, 6.
“The barges I hired at Pisa”: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 410.
“Dearest father”: Michelangelo, Carteggio, II, 274.
“I have never exerted myself”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 104.
“I am not charging for the wooden model”: Michelangelo, Carteggio, II, 220.
“Michelangelo refused”: Vasari, Lives, II, 275.
“an old man”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 106.
“I have a great task to perform”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 146.
“Yesterday evening”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 160.
“I live on death”: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 117.
“Different it can be made”: Vasari, Lives, II, 679.
“but with another manner of ornamentation”: Ibid., 679–80.
“wherefore”: Vasari, Ibid., 680.
“new fantasies”: Ibid.
more than 100 craftsmen: See William E. Wallace, “Michelangelo at Work: Bernardino Basso, Friend, Scoundrel, and Capomaestro,” in I Tatti Studies: Essays in the Renaissance, vol. 3 (1989): 235–77.
Now you know that in Rome: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 143.
“I’m dying of anguish”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 121.
with this proviso: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 163.
If my life is an annoyance: Michelangelo, Carteggio, II, 373–74.
“shameful”: Hirst, Michelangelo: The Achievement of Fame, 200.
They can’t sue me: Michelangelo, Carteggio, III, 144.
“Through the first death”: Goffen, Renaissance Rivals, 309–10.
“Death is the end of a dark prison”: de Tolnay, Art and Thought of Michelangelo, 37.
the finished works of lesser masters: Creighton Gilbert, “What is Expressed in Michelangelo’s Non-Finito,” Artibus et Historiae, vol. 24, no. 48 (2003): 59.
“To the Liberator of the Fatherland”: Rendina, The Popes, 449.
“[A]lthough he had a most capable intelligence”: Guicciardini, History of Italy, 363.
“He talks well but he decides badly”: Scotti, Basilica, 160.
“You will have heard that Medici is made Pope”: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 440.
“If Your Holiness wishes me to accomplish anything”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 151.
“Time, that consumes all things”: Condivi, Life of Michelangelo, 118.
He who made me: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 163.
Day and Night speak: Ibid., 80.
“Cease in a moment”: Ibid., 134.
“did not model either Duke Lorenzo”: Hirst, Michelangelo: The Achievement of Fame, 343.
“the unique Michelangelo Simoni”: Hughes, Michelangelo, 179.
“[N]o one has ever had dealings with me”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 153.
The night was mine: Michelangelo, Complete Poems of Michelangelo, 75.
> “O night, though black”: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 161–2.
“[H]e abstained from pleasures”: Guicciardini, History of Italy, 338.
“A papacy made up of greetings”: Rendina, The Popes, 452.
“the four figures are not yet finished”: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 453.
“I’m working as hard as I can”: Ibid., 458.
“[T]he times are unfavorable”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 170.
“There will be war in Italy”: Unger, Machiavelli: A Biography, 321.
“Many were suspended hours by the arms”: Scotti, Basilica, 163.
“dreadful news from Rome”: Unger, Machiavelli: A Biography, 328.
“full of atrocities”: Guicciardini, History of Italy, 376.
“persuaded the Pope”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 272.
“We had then in Florence”: Hirst, Michelangelo: The Achievement of Fame, 352.
“because it was deprived”: Goffen, Renaissance Rivals, 356.
I left without telling any of my friends: Michelangelo, Carteggio, III, 280.
“reproached him with being a timid man”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 291.
“Each time, on his return”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 293.
“we have as our enemy an entire people”: Najemy, History of Florence, 462.
“tortures and persecutions”: Guicciardini, History of Italy, 431.
“[T]he pope having won the peace”: Hirst, Michelangelo: The Achievement of Fame, 367.
“Michelangelo is wrong”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, liii.
“duke of the Florentine Republic”: Najemy, History of Florence, 464.
“Michael Angelo lived in great fear”: Condivi, Life of Michelangelo, 121.
“[H]e works much”: Bull, Michelangelo: A Biography, 224.
“that there are many who believe”: Hirst, Michelangelo: The Achievement of Fame, 369.
“Already burdened with a heavy heart”: Michelangelo, Complete Poems of Michelangelo, 65.
“something that [you] would never dream of”: Hub, “. . . e far dolce la morte: Love, Death, and Salvation in Michelangelo’s ‘Last Judgment,’ ” Artibus et Historiae, vol. 26, no. 51 (2005): 111.
“I see that I am yours”: Hub, “. . . e far dolce la morte,” 105.
“I am leaving tomorrow morning”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 187.
Heaven’s only where you are: Michelangelo, Complete Poems of Michelangelo, 62.
VI. THE END OF TIME
“[I]f I yearn day and night”: Symonds, Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti, 228.
I realize that I could no sooner forget: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 470–71.
“Thus, loving loyally”: Symonds, Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti, 234.
“commend me to him”: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 472.
“In your handsome face”: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 141–42.
“My eyes are drawn”: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 166.
“Wild desire is not love”: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 164.
“I do not deem myself worthy”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, xviii.
“[A]s far as I can see”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, xix.
“may appear mechanical”: Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier, I, 96, 100–101.
“[I] should confess myself disgraced”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 183.
“Ganymede, then, would signify”: Panofsky, Studies in Iconology, 215.
“The composition is careful”: Condivi, Life of Michelangelo, 136.
“the hens and master cock”: Symonds, Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti, 227.
“I desire to be rid of this obligation”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 169.
“In the year 1533”: Vasari, Lives, II, 688.
“[T]hose who have robbed me of my youth”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, 31.
“Painting and sculpture”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, 26.
“supreme architect, sculptor and painter”: Partridge, Michelangelo: The Last Judgment, 158.
“Sometimes”: Holanda, Dialogues with Michelangelo, 42.
“[E]ven his Holiness annoys”: Ibid., 40–41.
“I’ll briefly fill you in”: Michelangelo, Carteggio, II, 227.
“Monsignor, I come to your Most Reverend Lordship”: Michelangelo, Carteggio, II, 232.
“is almost the only topic of conversation”: Michelangelo, Letters, I, 273.
“for lazy people and women”: Hughes, Michelangelo, 244.
“and seeing the greatness of his own name”: Vasari, Lives, I, 593.
“I must tell you”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, 160.
“As to the almsgiving”: Ibid., 81.
“The news of Mona Margherita’s death”: Ibid., 7.
“in a desperate state”: Vasari, Lives, II, 692.
“He opened out the way to facility”: Ibid., 691.
“Excellent painting imitates the works of God”: Barnes, Michelangelo’s Last Judgment, 89.
[T]he sun will be darkened: Matthew 24:29–31.
“the pulp in fruit compacted by its peal”: Michelangelo, Complete Poems of Michelangelo, 143–44.
How I wish, my lord: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 154.
“I believe that my Redeemer lives”: Barnes, Michelangelo’s Last Judgment, 27.
“I wish to make a complaint”: Holanda, Dialogues with Michelangelo, 40–41.
“[I]t is necessary that [he]”: Goffen, Renaissance Rivals, 356.
“Whenever I see someone”: Bull, Michelangelo: A Biography, 311.
“[A]ll Rome knows”: Michelangelo, Carteggio, IV, 279.
“great desire”: Goffen, Renaissance Rivals, 295.
“Sacred Majesty”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, 61.
“Now who would not be”: Bull, Michelangelo: A Biography, 272.
“Magnificent Messer Pietro”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, 3.
“But why, O Lord”: Michelangelo, Carteggio, IV, 181–82.
“certain Gerards and Thomases”: Bull, Michelangelo: A Biography, 297.
“Lord, do not charge me”: Hughes, Michelangelo, 254.
“The work is of such beauty”: Barnes, Michelangelo’s Last Judgment, 78.
“shameful”: Bull, Michelangelo: A Biography, 296.
“Even if my own father”: quoted in MacCulloch, Reformation: A History, 231.
“one of the most illustrious”: Holanda, Dialogues with Michelangelo, 33.
“God has permitted this persecution”: Scotti, Basilica, 156.
“keys to the kingdom of heaven”: Matthew 16:19.
“The justice of Christ”: de Tolnay, Final Period, 54.
“believe that she could only be saved”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, xxix.
“We hope that you will imitate his charity”: Bull, Michelangelo: A Biography, 288.
“Before taking possession”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, 4.
“Unique Master Michelangelo”: Hughes, Michelangelo, 258.
“Through the cross”: de Tolnay, Michelangelo: Painter, Sculptor, Architect, 105.
O flesh, O blood: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 123.
“sacred images modest and devout”: Barnes, Michelangelo’s Last Judgment, 85.
“Is it not ridiculous”: Hub, “. . . e fa dolce la morte,” 103.
[A]s a baptized Christian: Hughes, Michelangelo, 250–51.
“Some subjects by their nature”: Barnes, Michelangelo’s Last Judgment, 98–99.
“if ten people”: Barnes, “Metaphorical Painting . . .” Art Bulletin, vol. 77, no. 1 (March 1995): 67.
“In the same month”: Wang, “Michelangelo’s Signature,” Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 35, no. 2 (2004): 469.
“Suddenly, while he was traveling”: Acts 9:3–8.
“In reply to your last letter”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, 113.
“In principle”: Rendina, The Popes, 457.
“removing from Rome”: Barnes, Michelangelo’s Last Judgment, 82.
“it was not
right”: Ibid., 87.
“[C]ertain persons had informed him”: Vasari, Lives, II, 714.
“[H]e used to tell me”: Vasari, Lives, II, 696.
“I am old”: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 561.
“I’ve reached the end of my life ’s journey”: Michelangelo, Rime e Lettere, 284.
VII. BASILICA
“[A]s there was much anxiety”: Klaczko, Rome and the Renaissance, 26–27.
“His Holiness shows every happiness”: Scotti, Basilica, 78.
“It’s all happening because of me”: Klaczko, Rome and the Renaissance, 22.
“Michael Angelo was the cause”: Condivi, Life of Michelangelo, 79.
“[T]he continual force of the wind”: Alberti, On the Art of Building, 26.
“. . . all people are persuaded”: Scotti, Basilica, 123–24.
“The name il Ruinante”: Scotti, Basilica, 75.
“Why did you destroy my temple”: Klaczko, Rome and the Renaissance, 25.
“You are Peter”: Matthew 16:18–20.
“This material edifice had destroyed”: Klaczko, Rome and the Renaissance, 26.
“encourage piety”: Alberti, On the Art of Building, 194.
“It is obvious”: Ibid., 196.
“For without order”: Ibid., 191.
“The design of a temple depends on symmetry”: Vitruvius, Ten Books on Architecture, 72–73.
“raise the dome of the Pantheon”: Scotti, Basilica, 132.
“The New Basilica”: Ibid., 81.
“Christians should be taught”: Ibid., 148.
“Everything is for sale”: Ibid., 144.
“eaten up three Pontificates”: Pastor, History of the Popes, VIII, 102.
“What task can be nobler”: Ibid., 326.
“[H]e lived”: Vasari, Lives, I, 747.
“Acting more out of pity”: Scotti, Basilica, 137.
“Messer Giorgio my friend”: Michelangelo, Carteggio, V, 105.
“I recall a certain staircase”: Michelangelo, Letters, II, 157–58.
“I was forced to undertake”: Ibid., 153.
“all the Sangallo faction”: Ibid., 307.
“Messer Bartolomeo, dear friend”: Ibid., 69.
“numerous projections and angles”: Ibid., 307.
Whoever takes delivery: Ibid., 95–96.
“Forasmuch as our beloved son”: Ibid., 308.
the artist fretted: Ibid., 119.
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