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Casa Buonarroti is a museum in Florence, Italy that is situated on property owned by the sculptor Michelangelo that he left to his nephew, Leonardo Buonarroti. The complex of buildings was converted into a museum dedicated to the artist by his great nephew, Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger.
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born on 6 March 1475 [c] in Caprese, known today as Caprese Michelangelo, a small town situated in Valtiberina, [10] near Arezzo, Tuscany. [11] For several generations, his family had been small-scale bankers in Florence ; but the bank failed, and his father Ludovico briefly took a government post ...
The existing design of the Piazza del Campidoglio and the surrounding palaces was created by Michelangelo. At the height of his fame, Michelangelo was offered the opportunity to build a monumental civic plaza for a major city as well as to reestablish the grandeur of Rome. [4] Michelangelo's first designs for remodeling the square date to 1534.
Giovan Francesco Rustici, [1] or Giovanni Francesco Rustici, [2] (1475–1554) [1] was an Italian Renaissance painter [3] and sculptor. He was born into a noble family of Florence, with an independent income.
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Or you, great Night, daughter of Michelangelo, Who calmly contort, reclining in a strange pose Your charms molded by the mouths of Titans! [9] In his Life of Michelangelo, Giorgio Vasari quotes an epigram by Giovanni Strozzi, written, perhaps in 1544, in praise of Michelangelo's Night: La Notte che tu vedi in sì dolci atti
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1475: March 6 – Michelangelo, born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni in Caprese, Tuscany, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet and engineer (died 1564) 1475: September 6 – Sebastiano Serlio born in Bologna , Italian Mannerist architect and theoretician working in France (died c. 1554 )