Michelangelo and the Medici Dr Emily Fenichel April

Michelangelo and the Medici Dr. Emily Fenichel April 23, 2017

Francesco Furini, Michelangelo’s Mother Falling from a Horse, Casa Buonarroti 1628

Cosimo de’ Medici’s Portrait Medal, c. 1465

Bust of Lorenzo de’ Medici, known as “Il Magnifico, ” Late 15 th/Early 16 th Century After Verrocchio?

“All those things have given me the greatest satisfaction and contentment because they are not only for the honor of God but are likewise for my own remembrance. For fifty years, I have done nothing else but earn money and spend money; and it became clear that spending money gives me greater pleasure than earning it. ” Cosimo de’ Medici

Michelozzo di Bartolomeo, Palazzo Medici, 1444 -1484

Michelangelo, (L) Madonna of the Stairs and (R) Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs,

Emilio Zocchi, The Young Michelangelo, 1861 Head of a Faun

Raphael, Portrait of Pope Leo X with Two Cardin c. 1517

Church of San Lorenzo, Florence

Michelangelo, Wooden Model for the Façade of San Lorenzo, 1517

Plan of San Lorenzo

Michelangelo, The New Sacristy in San Lo 1521 -1524

Michelangelo, Night, from the New Sacristy

Plan of San Lorenzo

Michelangelo, Laurentian Library, 1525 – 1534

Michelangelo, Drawings for the Fortification Of Florence, c. 1529

Michelangelo, Slaves from the Tomb of Julius II, 1513 - 1515

Agnolo Bronzino, Cosimo I de’ Medici as Orpheus, c. 1537 -39

Michelangelo’s Tomb in Santa Croce