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by Miles J. Unger


  basilican form, origins of, 319

  Battle of Anghiari, The (Leonardo), 118–20, 124

  Battle of Cascina (Bastiano da Sangallo; after Michelangelo), 121

  Battle of Cascina, The (Michelangelo), 120, 251n

  cartoons of, 122, 125, 139

  Michelangelo’s abandonment of, 124

  Battle of the Centaurs (Michelangelo), 23–24, 23, 25, 122, 376

  Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan, 142

  Belting, Hans, 71n

  Belvedere, Vatican, 133, 136, 161, 196

  Benedetto da Mantova, 296

  Bernardo della Ciecha, 99

  Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 238, 345–46, 378

  St. Peter’s rebuilding and, 338, 340

  Bertoldo di Giovanni, 20, 24, 60, 280

  Bettini, Cesare, 349

  Biagio da Cesena, Last Judgment and, 291–92

  Bibbiena, Cardinal (Bernardo Dovizi), 206n, 269

  Biblia vulgare istoriata (Malermi), 153n

  Bichiellini, Niccolò, 31

  Birth of Eve, The (Michelangelo), 171–72

  Birth of Venus, The (Botticelli), 35, 40

  Black Death (1348), 80

  Boccaccio, Giovanni, 12

  body, as soul’s prison, 61–62, 198, 232, 283–84, 356

  Bologna, 165n-66n

  Michelangelo in, 38–39, 143–46

  Bonfire of the Vanities, 35

  Book of the Courtier, The (Castiglione), 287

  Borgia, Cesare, 44, 82, 84, 129

  Borgia, Lucrezia, 44

  Borgia, Rodrigo, see Alexander VI, Pope

  Botticelli, Sandro, 35, 40, 99, 147

  bozzetto, 57n

  Bracci, Cecchino de’, 356

  Bracciolini, Poggio, 44–45

  Bramante, Donato, 133, 141, 142, 158, 185n, 194, 205, 214, 316, 322–23

  archaeological investigations of, 318–19

  arrogance of, 134, 135

  death of, 323, 325

  Julius II and, 134

  Michelangelo’s rivalry with, 133, 138, 140, 162, 334

  St. Peter’s rebuilding planned by, 63, 138, 164, 314, 318, 319, 320, 322–24, 333, 334–35, 340, 344, 353n

  as self-serving, 140

  Brancacci Chapel, 27n

  Brazen Serpent, The (Michelangelo), 179

  Bruges Madonna (Michelangelo), 90n, 115n

  Brunelleschi, Filippo, 80–81, 98, 134, 204, 205, 208, 216, 221–22, 224, 248, 318–19, 335, 344, 368, 377

  Brutus (Michelangelo), 354, 376

  Bugiardini, Giuliano, 20, 155–56

  Buonarroti, Buonarroto, 14, 37, 86, 177, 193, 211

  death of, 248, 352

  Michelangelo’s correspondence with, 137, 144, 145, 165n, 183, 201–2, 204

  Buonarroti, Cassandra Ridolfi, 362

  Buonarroti, Francesca, 1, 9, 14

  Buonarroti, Francesco, 9, 11

  Buonarroti, Giovansimone, 14

  Michelangelo’s correspondence with, 145, 175–76

  Buonarroti, Gismondo, 14, 86, 360

  Buonarroti, Lionardo (Michelangelo’s brother), 8n, 30

  financial problems of, 54

  Buonarroti, Lionardo (Michelangelo’s grandfather), 9

  Buonarroti, Lionardo (Michelangelo’s nephew), 248, 273, 367, 368

  Michelangelo’s correspondence with, 1–2, 248n, 272–73, 307, 310, 348, 352, 355–56, 360–62, 366

  Michelangelo’s relationship with, 360–61

  Buonarroti, Lodovico, 8, 9, 11, 12, 359

  death of, 254, 352

  diary of, 8

  financial problems of, 54, 175, 211

  Michelangelo’s choice of artistic career opposed by, 15, 22–23, 30

  Michelangelo’s correspondence with, 49, 54, 55, 86, 87, 136–37, 160, 185–86, 189, 192–93, 212, 230–31

  and Michelangelo’s move to Medici Palace, 21–22

  Michelangelo’s relationship with, 87–88, 175, 211–13, 230–31, 254

  poverty of, 87

  pride of, 8, 87

  Buonarroti, Lucrezia, 14, 54

  Buonarroti family, 359, 361

  background of, 7–9

  Canossa kinship claimed by, 8–9

  Michelangelo’s loyalty to, 54–55, 85, 176, 213, 359

  poverty of, 8, 9–10, 11, 15

  Buoninsegni, Domenico, 148n, 213–14, 247

  Michelangelo’s correspondence with, 206–7, 208–9, 236

  Busini, Giovanbattista, 249

  Calcagni, Tiberio, 354

  calcanguolo, 90

  Campidoglio, Rome (Michelangelo), xiii, 328, 330, 331, 332, 341, 342, 378–79

  Canossa, Alessandro, 8–9

  Canossa, Matilda, 9

  Canossa family, Buonarroti’s claimed kinship with, 8–9

  Capitoline Hill, 328, 330, 332

  Capponi, Niccolò, 249

  Caprese, 8

  Captives series (Michelangelo), 6, 52, 77, 90n, 169, 197n, 231–32, 251, 355, 376

  Caraffa, Cardinal Gian Pietro, see Paul IV, Pope

  carcere terreno, 61–62

  Carrara, 58, 196, 210–11, 228

  Casa Buonarroti, Florence, xii, 376

  Casa Nuova, Rome, 47

  Castagno, Andrea del, 83n

  Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome, 221n, 246

  Castiglione, Baldassare, 53, 261, 287, 358

  Cateau-Cambrésis, Treaty of (1559), 351n-52n

  Caterino, Ambrogio, 292

  Catherine de’ Medici, queen consort of France, 215n, 255, 317

  Catholic Church, corruption in, 295–96

  Cavalieri, Tommaso de’, 283, 328, 376

  Michelangelo’s correspondence with, 257–59

  Michelangelo’s gift of drawings to, 261–62, 294–95

  Michelangelo’s relationship with, 255, 257–63, 290, 294–95, 297, 352–53, 363, 367

  Cellini, Benvenuto, 27, 57n, 238, 245

  Cervini, Cardinal, see Marcellus II, Pope

  Charles, duke of Bourbon, 245

  Charles V, Holy Roman emperor, 227, 233–34, 243, 246, 307, 330

  Charles VIII, king of France, 92, 234, 351n-52n

  Chigi, Agostino, 196, 323

  Christ Giving the Keys of the Church to St. Peter (Perugino), 150n

  Christ on the Cross (Michelangelo), 33

  Ciarla, Simone, 325

  Cimabue, 12

  Clement VII, Pope, 4, 29, 191, 195n, 203, 215, 227–28, 246, 250, 265, 370

  death of, 263

  election of, 233–34

  and League of Cognac, 244–45

  on Michelangelo, 3

  Michelangelo’s relationship with, 148n, 235–36, 251, 252

  political maneuvering of, 234–35, 243–44

  and St. Peter’s rebuilding, 324

  San Lorenzo projects and, 207, 209, 214–15, 221, 228–29, 230, 235, 251, 252, 325

  Sistine Chapel proposal of, 268

  Cocytus, 244n

  Colonna, Vittoria, marchesa of Pescara, 258n, 285, 295, 296–97

  death of, 357

  Michelangelo’s relationship with, 297, 299–300, 353, 364

  Condivi, Ascanio, 2, 5, 6, 18, 24, 39, 48, 63, 71, 86, 91, 125, 249, 252, 258, 297, 300

  on Bacchus, 49

  on Julius Tomb, 169

  on Medici Tombs, 205, 239–40

  on Michelangelo’s decision to become an artist, 15

  on Michelangelo’s flight to Florence, 138n, 139

  on Michelangelo’s meeting with Lorenzo, 20–21

  on Michelangelo’s relationship with Domenico Ghirlandaio, 16–17

  on Michelangelo’s relationship with Julius II, 136

  Michelangelo’s reputed homosexuality rejected by, 52

  on Pietà, 65–66

  on St. Peter’s rebuilding, 314–15

  on Sistine Ceiling, 174, 186

  on Sleeping Cupid hoax, 40–41

  Consilium de Emendanda Ecclesia, 296

  Constantine, emperor of Rome, 315, 316–17

  Contarini, Cardinal G
asparo, 296

  Conversion of Saul, The (Michelangelo), 304, 305, 306–7

  Cordona, Ramón de, 191–92

  Corsini, Alessandro, 251

  Corsini, Silvio, 228

  Cosmas, Saint, 236

  Counter-Reformation, 293n, 303, 308, 345

  Courtier, The (Castiglione), 53, 261, 358

  Creation of Adam, The (Michelangelo), 39, 127, 152n, 179

  Creation of Adam, The (Quercia), 181

  Creation of Eve, The (Michelangelo), 153, 159n, 173, 180

  Creation of the Sun, Moon, and Planets, The (Michelangelo), 152n, 181

  Crucifix (Michelangelo), 31, 33, 64, 376

  Crucifixion (Michelangelo), 298, 299

  Crucifixion of St. Peter, The (Michelangelo), 304, 306–7, 309

  cult of personality, Michelangelo as object of, 5–7, 232–33, 262, 373

  Cumaean Sibyl, 166–67, 172, 173, 182

  Curia, corruption in, 296

  Damian, Saint, 236

  Daniel, 182

  Daniele da Volterra, iv, 309, 367, 371

  Dante Alighieri, 12, 38, 65, 75, 104, 244n, 291n-92n, 354n

  David, as symbol of Florence, 83, 97, 100, 104

  David (bronze; Donatello), 92, 97, 102

  David (bronze; Michelangelo), 91–92, 122

  David (marble; Donatello), 97–98

  David (Michelangelo), 38, 39, 68, 77, 78, 88–92, 94–100, 102–12, 113, 117, 123, 131, 165, 179, 191n, 198, 200, 221, 247, 268, 372, 376

  as balance of realism and idealism, 111

  as celebration of male beauty, 111–12

  contract for, 79, 88, 90

  debate on location of, 97–100, 102–4

  as embodiment of Renaissance concept of Man, 105–8, 111

  fears of vandalism of, 102–3

  first public viewing of, 96–97

  in Florentine political context, 100, 102–3, 108–9

  marble block for (“the Giant”), 79–80, 81–82

  as pinnacle of High Renaissance art, 110

  Vasari on, 83, 84, 91, 95–96, 100, 109–10

  David and Goliath (Michelangelo), 179

  Dawn (Michelangelo), 239

  Day (Michelangelo), 239

  Del Beneficio di Gesù Crocifisso (Benedetto da Mantova), 296, 297n

  Delivery of the Keys to St. Peter (Perugino), 322

  della Porta, Giacomo, 343

  della Rovere, Cardinal Grossi, 188–89, 205

  della Rovere, Francesco, see Sixtus IV, Pope

  della Rovere, Francesco, duke of Urbino, 265

  della Rovere, Francesco Maria, duke of Urbino, 201, 229

  della Rovere, Giuliano, see Julius II, Pope

  della Rovere family, 184, 201, 230, 235, 254, 263, 266

  Delphic Sibyl, 173

  del Sera, Neri di Miniato, 9

  Deluge, The (Michelangelo), 152n, 153, 159n

  Desiderio da Settignano, 13n

  De Tolnay, Charles, 168n

  Dialogue on Painting (The Aretino) (Dolce), 195–96

  Dialogues with Michelangelo (Holanda), 127, 182, 276, 284–87

  Dieci di Balia, 92

  Discobolus (Myron), 107

  Discorso Intorno alle Imagini Sacre e Profane (Paleotti), 303

  Dismas, 277

  di sotto in sù perspective, 153–54, 178–79

  Divine Comedy, The (Dante), 38

  Dolce, Lodovico, 195–96

  Donatello, 12, 20, 24, 81, 83n, 92, 97, 102, 105, 108, 134, 222, 318, 368

  Doni, Agnolo, 115, 117

  Doni, Anton Francesco, 6–7

  Doni Tondo (Michelangelo), 114, 115–17, 116, 122, 123, 169, 376

  Donnino, Agnolo, di, 156

  Dovizi, Bernardo (Cardinal Bibbiena), 206n, 269

  Dream of Human Life, The (Michelangelo), 262n

  Drunkenness of Noah, The (Michelangelo), 171

  Duomo, see Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence

  Dusk (Michelangelo), 239

  Dying Slave (Michelangelo), 197

  Egidio da Viterbo, 316

  Enneads (Plotinus), 94n

  Entombment, The (Michelangelo), 85, 122

  Erasmus, 130n

  Erythrean Sibyl, 173

  Este, Alfonso d’, duke of Ferrara, 146n

  Este, Isabella d’, marchesa of Mantua, 42

  Euclid, 164

  Eve, 170, 172

  Expulsion (Masaccio), 27n

  Ezekiel, 173

  Fabbrica di San Pietro, 324, 326, 332, 335, 337–38, 348, 349

  Fachino, Giovanni, 270

  Fall of Phaeton (Michelangelo), 262n

  fame:

  as goal of Michelangelo, 15, 70–71, 90

  of Michelangelo, 287–89, 347, 357, 373

  Renaissance quest for, 74–76

  Farnese, Alessandro, see Paul III, Pope

  Farnese, Giulia, 265

  Farnese, Pier Luigi, duke of Parma, 307, 332n, 337

  Fattucci, Giovanni Francesco, 229, 231

  Ferratini, Bartolomeo, 334

  Ferrucci, Francesco, 250

  Ficino, Marsilio, 12, 23, 25, 62, 94n, 150, 172, 284

  Fidelissimi, Gherardo, 367

  Figiovanni, Giovan Battista, 251

  Filarete, 102–3

  Flagellation (Sebastiano), 195n

  Flood, The (Michelangelo), 174

  Florence, 134, 146

  artisans in, 11–12

  arts in, 12

  in conflict over Michelangelo’s burial site, 368

  David as symbol of, 83, 97, 100, 104

  French occupation of, 39

  fresco tradition in, 156–57

  map of, xii

  Medici dominance in, 12

  Medici’s return to power in, 191–92

  merchant class of, 11–12

  Michelangelo’s 1494 flight from, 37–39

  Michelangelo’s 1501 return to, 84, 87

  Michelangelo’s 1506 flight to, 138–39, 141–42, 314

  Michelangelo’s 1517 return to, 211

  Michelangelo’s loyalty to, 89, 95

  Michelangelo’s works in, 375, 376–77

  plague in, 54, 80, 248

  political factionalism in, 100, 102–3

  republican government of, 11–12

  republican revival in (1527–30), 246

  Savonarola regime in, 39–40

  Savonarola’s downfall in, 82, 84

  siege of, 250, 351

  slums of, 11

  view of, 10

  in war with Pisa, 82, 109, 113

  Florentine Academy, 357, 359, 363

  Florentine Pietà (Michelangelo), 62–63, 363–64, 377

  florins, value of, 15n-16n

  Foix, Gaston de, 184

  foreshortening, in Sistine Ceiling, 153–54, 178–79

  Fortezza da Basso, Florence, 353n

  France, 12, 36, 191, 350–51

  Francesco da Urbino, 14

  Francis I, king of France, 234, 243, 244, 288

  fresco painting, difficulty of, 157, 178

  fuoriusciti (Florentine expatriates), 353–56

  Galatea (Raphael), 196

  Galileo, 377

  Gallo, Jacopo, 85, 355

  Bacchus acquired by, 49–50, 55

  Gates of Paradise (Ghiberti), 105

  Genesis, Sistine Ceiling depiction of, 151, 152, 153, 166, 169–73

  genii, 168

  Ghiberti, 105

  Ghirlandaio, Davide, 14, 18

  Ghirlandaio, Domenico, 14, 16–17, 18, 120, 147, 310

  as Michelangelo’s first teacher, 17, 18, 19, 155

  workshop of, 17, 20, 156

  Giambologna, 238

  Giannotti, Donato, 286–87, 354

  Giocondo, Francesco del, 113

  Giocondo, Giovanni, 327

  Giorgione, 195

  giornate, 159

  Giotto, 12, 76, 278–79

  God, Sistine Ceiling depictions of, 180–81

  God Separating the Light from the Dark (Michelangelo), 159n,
182

  Gonzaga, Cardinal Ercole, 292

  Gonzaga, Elisabetta, duchess of Urbino, 123

  gradina, 90

  Granacci, Francesco, 18, 20, 27, 155, 156

  Michelangelo’s friendship with, 14–15

  Grassis, Paride de, 158, 165n, 184, 186, 188, 313, 316, 322–23

  Great Council, Florence, 118

  Guicciardini, Francesco, 128, 130, 183, 243, 245, 250

  Hades, 244n

  Hadrian VI, Pope, 227, 229, 233, 295–96, 324

  Haman, 179

  Hamlet (Shakespeare), 105n

  Head of a Faun (Michelangelo), 20–22

  hemicycles, 341–42, 378

  Henry II, king of France, 215n, 255, 351n

  Henry VIII, king of England, 246

  Heraclitus, 164, 174

  Hercules (Michelangelo; lost), 30–31

  Hercules (proposed companion to David), 246–47, 248

  Hercules and Cacus (Michelangelo), 376

  High Renaissance art, 110

  Holanda, Francisco de, 127, 182, 267, 276, 284–87, 295, 352

  Holy Roman Empire, 233–34, 350–51

  humanism, 23, 24, 172, 319, 345

  Iacopo, Fra, 156

  idealism, balance of realism and, 110–11

  ignudi, 152, 167, 168–69, 173, 184, 198, 238

  indulgences, 214, 323

  Inferno, The (Dante), 244n, 291n-92n

  Innocent VIII, Pope, 74

  Inquisition, 293–94, 308, 372

  intonaco, 272

  Isaiah, 166, 172, 173, 182

  Jacopino del Conte, xiv

  Jacopo di Sandro, 155–56

  Jeremiah, 182

  Jesuits, 308

  Jesus Christ, in Last Judgment, 281–82

  Joel, 173

  Jonah, 182

  Jonah (Michelangelo), 271

  Judith and Holofernes (Donatello), 102

  Judith and Holofernes (Michelangelo), 179

  Julius II, Pope, 128, 132, 150n-51n, 190, 268, 293

  as art patron, 129, 178

  Bramante and, 134

  character of, 129, 190

  Church’s well-being as primary concern of, 130

  death of, 188, 316, 323

  egotism of, 130, 188, 313–14

  ill health of, 177–78

  mercurial temperament of, 137, 161

  Michelangelo’s 1510 meeting with, 177

  Michelangelo’s bronze statue of, 144–46, 184

  and Michelangelo’s flight to Florence, 139, 141–42

  Michelangelo’s reconciliation with, 143–45

  Michelangelo’s relationship with, 133, 135–36, 162, 184–85, 188, 236, 314

  Michelangelo summoned to Rome by, 124–25, 126

  military campaigns of, 142–43, 175, 177, 178, 183–84

  Raphael and, 161–62

  St. Peter’s rebuilding and, 138, 313–15, 316, 317–18, 319, 322–24, 345, 348

  Sistine Ceiling and, 141–42, 147–48, 158, 173–74

  tomb of, see Julius Tomb

  Julius III, Pope, 350

  Michelangelo and, 348–49

 

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