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by Miles J. Unger


  Portrait of Michelangelo Buonarroti (Jacopino del Conte), xiv

  Portrait of Savonarola (Bartolomeo), 34

  Prato, sack of, 191–92

  Primavera (Botticelli), 35, 40

  Prince, The (Machiavelli), 109, 253

  prophets, 151, 152n, 173

  Protestant Reformation, 280, 293, 293n, 295, 296, 307, 323, 325, 371

  Pucci, Cardinal Lorenzo, 188–89, 205

  Pulci, Luigi, 22

  Punishment of Haman, The (Michelangelo), 179

  Punishment of Tityus, The (Michelangelo), 261–62

  Quercia, Jacopo della, 39, 165n-66n, 181

  Rachel (Michelangelo), 266n

  Raffaello da Montelupo, 266n

  Raimondi, Marcantonio, 262, 306

  Raising of Lazarus (Sebastiano), 195n

  Rape of Ganymede, The (Michelangelo), 261–62

  Raphael, 5, 25, 56n, 110, 123–24, 132, 133, 161–64, 163, 174, 177–78, 185n, 200, 203, 206n, 287, 322, 342n, 351, 378

  appointed magister operae, 194, 195, 205

  death of, 269, 288, 325

  Leo X and, 193–94, 205

  Michelangelo and, 162–63, 164, 174

  Michelangelo’s influence on, 193–94

  Michelangelo’s rivalry with, 194–96, 222, 269

  St. Peter’s rebuilding and, 325–26

  Sebastiano’s rivalry with, 194–96, 269

  Ravenna, Battle of, 191

  realism, balance of idealism and, 110–11

  Rebellious Slave, The (Michelangelo), 197

  Renaissance:

  concept of art in, 76–77, 96, 149–50, 262, 286, 359, 366, 371–72

  concept of Man in, 105–8, 111, 179, 200, 219

  Last Judgment as depicted in, 278–80

  quest for fame in, 74–76

  Riario, Cardinal Raffaele, 47, 56n, 129

  Bacchus commissioned by, 49–50, 52, 54

  Michelangelo invited to Rome by, 42, 48

  Sleeping Cupid and, 41–42, 48

  Riario, Pietro, 129

  Riccio, Luigi del, 327–28, 355–57, 360

  Ridolfi, Cardinal, 354

  rilievo schiacciato, 24, 25

  Risen Christ (Michelangelo), 59n, 197, 288, 378

  Rohan, Pierre de, Maréchal de Gié, 91, 122

  Roman Empire, 318

  Romantic movement, image of artist in, 6, 286

  Rome, 42, 83, 125–26

  as art center, 47

  Capitoline Hill in, 328, 330, 332

  as center of immorality, 45, 47

  in conflict over Michelangelo’s burial site, 368

  Florentine expatriates in, 353–56

  map of, xiii

  Michelangelo’s 1505 return to, 131, 133

  Michelangelo’s 1508 return to, 146

  Michelangelo’s 1534 return to, 255

  Michelangelo’s first sojourn in, 42, 44–77, 83

  Michelangelo’s works in, 375, 377–79

  rebuilding of, 44–45, 133–34, 315, 317

  view of, 46

  Rome, Classical, 133

  Rome, sack of (1527), 245–46, 263, 295, 324, 325

  Rondanini Pietà (Michelangelo), 14, 363–65, 366–67

  Rontini, Baccio, 275

  Rosselli, Piero, 141–42

  Rossellino, Antonio, 13n, 81

  Rossellino, Bernardo, 315

  Rossi, Francesco de’, 109n

  Rosso Fiorentino, 218n

  Rucellai, Bonda, 9

  Rustici, Giovanfrancesco, 20

  Sacrifice of Noah, The, 166n

  St. George (Donatello), 105

  St. John (Michelangelo), 40

  St. Matthew (Michelangelo), 118, 376

  St. Peter’s Basilica, new, xiii, 214, 312, 377

  Antonio da Sangallo and, 325–27, 333, 334–35, 340

  baldachino of, 345, 346, 378

  Bernini and, 338, 340

  Bramante’s plan for, 63, 138, 164, 314, 318, 319, 320, 322–24, 333, 334–35, 340, 344, 353n

  Clement VII and, 324

  consecration of, 345

  corruption in building of, 326, 332, 335

  cost of, 323–24

  dome of, 222, 335, 340, 342–44, 378

  Giuliano da Sangallo and, 327, 344

  hemicycles of, 341–42, 378

  Julius II and, 313–15, 316, 317–18, 319, 322–24, 345, 348

  Julius III and, 337–38, 348–49

  Leo X and, 323–24, 326

  Michelangelo and, 327–28, 332–38, 339, 340–44, 346–52, 372, 373

  Paul III and, 326–27, 336, 346

  piazza of, 345–46

  Raphael and, 325–26

  and sale of indulgences, 323

  unconventional architectural elements of, 341–42

  St. Peter’s Basilica, old, 55, 74, 317–18

  Constantine and, 315, 316–17

  dismantling of, 314

  Salutati, Coluccio, 83

  Salvestro, 99–100

  Sangalleschi (Sangallo faction), 326, 333–34, 336, 337

  Sangallo, Antonio da, 205, 379

  St. Peter’s rebuilding and, 325–27, 333, 334–35, 340

  Sangallo, Bastiano (Aristotile) da, 121, 155–56

  Sangallo, Francesco da, 228

  Sangallo, Giuliano da, 134, 139–40, 141, 159–60, 205, 224n, 316, 319

  St. Peter’s rebuilding and, 327, 344

  San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, Rome, 353

  San Giusto alle Mura Monastery, Florence, 156–57

  San Lorenzo, Florence, xii, 60, 215, 216, 370, 376–77

  New Sacristy of, see Medici Tombs, San Lorenzo, Florence

  Old Sacristy of, 221–22, 224, 377

  San Lorenzo, Florence, facade of, 204–5, 217, 221n, 328

  contract for, 208

  delays in work on, 210–11

  Michelangelo and Baccio awarded joint commissions for, 206–7

  Michelangelo’s design for, 209

  suspension of work on, 213–14, 215, 265

  San Petronio Basilica, Bologna, 39, 144, 165n-66n

  San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome, see Julius Tomb, San Pietro in Vincoli

  San Pietro Maggiore, Florence, 369

  San Silvestro, Convent of, 299

  Sansovino, Jacopo, 205, 209

  Santa Croce, Florence, xii, 80, 87, 217, 369

  Michelangelo’s tomb in, 373, 377

  Sant’Agostino, Rome, 85

  Santa Maria del Carmine, 27

  Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence, 79–81, 206, 207–8, 214

  dome of, 80–81, 98, 206, 335

  Santa Maria Novella, Florence, 17n, 18, 217

  Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, Rome, xiii, 197, 378

  Santa Petronilla Chapel, 63

  Santa Petronilla shrine, St. Peter’s Basilica, 55

  Santa Trinità, Florence, 17n, 217

  Santissima Annunziata, Florence, 76, 89

  Santo Spirito, Florence, xii, 31, 64, 66, 224n, 376

  Savonarola, Girolamo, 30, 33, 34, 35, 36–37, 40, 45, 82, 84, 172, 294

  scarpellini (stonecutters), 13, 58, 60, 80, 136, 197, 228, 273, 287, 313, 351, 352

  School of Athens, The (Raphael), 163–64, 163, 174, 200, 322, 378

  Scrovegni Chapel, Padua, 279

  sculpture:

  as metaphor in Michelangelo’s poetry, 61

  Michelangelo on merits of painting vs., 25, 358–59

  models for, 57–58

  as process of self-actualization, 94–95

  subtractive process of, 61

  Sebastiano del Piombo, 22, 169n, 193–95, 255, 259

  Last Judgment and, 269, 270

  Michelangelo’s correspondence with, 220

  Raphael’s rivalry with, 194–96, 269

  Sellaio, Leonardo, 54, 195n, 206, 207, 233n

  Separation of the Earth from the Waters, The (Michelangelo), 181

  Seripando, Cardinal Girolamo, 308

  Sernini, Nino, 292

  Settignano, 13, 59

 
; Sforza, Francesco, duke of Milan, 84

  Sforza, Gian Galeazzo, duke of Milan, 19–20

  sfumato, 117

  Shakespeare, William, 75, 105n

  sibyls, 151, 152n, 173, 182

  Siena, 122–23, 353

  Signorelli, Luca, 279

  Signoria, 11, 98–99

  Sistine Ceiling, 16n, 27n, 39, 68, 98, 141, 146–48, 149–86, 188, 192, 200, 218, 221, 233n, 240, 268, 279, 293, 371–72, 378

  ancestors of Christ depicted on, 149, 152, 173, 182–83, 271

  beginning of work on, 154

  brazen nudes of, 152–53, 183

  complex layout of, 151

  contract for, 154

  didacticism of, 276

  drawings for, 155

  evolving style of, 161, 174, 178

  faux-bronze medallions of, 153, 184

  first public view of, 173–74

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

  lunettes of, 151, 152, 182–83, 271

  Michelangelo commissioned to paint, 147–48

  Michelangelo’s assistants on, 155–56, 161

  Michelangelo’s design for, 150–51

  Michelangelo’s use of foreshortening in, 153–54, 178–79

  Michelangelo’s use of perspective in, 153–54, 178–79

  origins of design for, 149

  pendentives of, 151, 152n, 153

  prophets in, 151, 152n, 173

  sibyls in, 151, 152n, 173, 182

  spandrels of, 151, 152

  trompe-l’oeil architecture of, 151–52

  trompe-l’oeil piers and, 152

  uncomfortable working conditions for, 158–59

  Sistine Chapel, 141, 146–47, 196, 322, 377–78

  Clement’s proposal for, 268

  wall frescoes of, 147, 150, 170

  Sixtus IV, Pope, 74, 128, 130, 146, 147, 189

  Sleeping Cupid (Michelangelo), 40–41, 47, 48, 50

  Socrates, 284n

  Soderini, Piero, 83, 84, 95, 100, 118, 119–20, 123, 125, 131, 139, 142, 191, 192, 247

  Sodoma, 163

  sola fide (faith alone) doctrine, 296

  Solari, Cristoforo, 72n

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

  Spain, 12

  spandrels, 151, 152

  Spirituali, 299

  Michelangelo and, 299–300, 364

  Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican, 163

  Stanza dell’ Incendio, Vatican, 196

  Strozzi, Gian Battista, 241n-42n

  Strozzi, Maddalena, 115

  Strozzi, Roberto, 355n

  Strozzi family, 355

  Studies for the David (Michelangelo), 92, 93, 94

  Styx, 244n

  subbia, 90

  symmetry, as design principle, 321–22, 340

  Taddei Tondo (Michelangelo), 90n, 114, 115

  Temptation and Expulsion from the Garden, The (Michelangelo), 39, 152n, 153, 173, 174, 180n

  Ten Books on Architecture (Vitruvius), 223

  terribilità, 4, 39, 194, 200, 285

  Titian, 5, 25, 264, 288n, 351

  Tolomei, Lattanzio, 285

  Topolino, 235

  Tornabuoni chapel, 18, 217

  Torrigiano, Pietro, 20, 27, 28–29

  Transfiguration (Raphael), 195n

  trapano, 94

  Trent, Council of, 293n, 297, 307, 309, 371

  Trignoli, Giovanni, 156n

  Udine, Giovanni da, 253

  Uffizi Gallery, Florence, xii, 376

  Urbano, Pietro, 156n, 197n

  Urban VIII, Pope, 345

  Urbino, Francesco, 266n, 357

  death of, 272–73

  Michelangelo’s relationship with, 272, 274

  Valdés, Juan de, 296, 300

  Valori, Bartolomeo (Baccio), 250–51

  Varchi, Benedetto, 36, 168n, 232, 357, 363

  Michelangelo eulogized by, 370–71

  Michelangelo’s letter to, 358–59

  Vasari, Giorgio, 6, 13, 16–17, 18, 24, 41, 57–58, 63, 75, 76, 77n, 88, 89, 109n, 111, 154, 198, 204, 218n, 223, 225, 247, 257, 270, 286, 300, 325, 327, 332–33, 347, 349, 362, 368, 378

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

  and death of Michelangelo, 368, 369

  on fresco painting, 157, 178

  on Julius II’s tomb, 135, 169

  on Last Judgment, 276, 279n, 308–9

  Laurentian Library and, 328

  on Leonardo, 18–19, 113

  on Leonardo’s Battle of Anghiari, 119

  on Lorenzo da’ Medici’s art school, 19

  on Medici Tombs, 205, 222

  Michelangelo described by, 28–29

  Michelangelo’s biography by, 19

  Michelangelo’s correspondence with, 351, 352

  on Michelangelo’s paintings, 309–10

  on Michelangelo’s perfectionism, 209

  Michelangelo’s relationship with, 369–70

  on Michelangelo’s rivalry with Raphael, 194–95

  on Michelangelo’s rivals, 158

  on Pietà signature, 72–73, 74

  on Raphael, 162, 164

  on San Lorenzo facade, 213–14

  on Sistine Ceiling, 156, 161

  on Sleeping Cupid hoax, 41–42

  Vatican Gardens, 378

  Vatican Museums, xiii, 377–78

  Vendramin, Andrea, doge of Venice, 38

  Venice, Republic of, 12

  Michelangelo’s trips to, 37–38, 248–50

  Verrocchio, Andrea, 18–19, 83n, 108

  Vespucci, Amerigo, 40

  Victory (Michelangelo), 376

  Virgin Mary:

  in Last Judgment, 282–83, 301

  in Pietà, 65–68, 69

  Virgin of the Stairs (Michelangelo), 237

  Visconti, Giangaleazzo, Duke of Milan, 82

  Vitruvian Man (Leonardo), 111, 322

  Vitruvius, 111, 223, 317, 318, 321–22, 340–41, 342

  Waldseemuller, Martin, 40n

  Zacchetti, Bernardino, 156n

  Zechariah, 173, 185n

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Unger, Miles.

  Michelangelo : a life in six masterpieces / Miles J. Unger.

  pages cm

  Includes bibliographical references and index.

  1. Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475–1564. 2. Artists—Italy—Biography. I. Title.

  N6923.B9U54 2014

  709.2—dc23

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