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Michelagnolo Galilei (sometimes spelled Michelangelo; 18 December 1575 – 3 January 1631) was an Italian composer and lutenist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, active mainly in Bavaria and Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
At the time of Michelangelo's birth, his father was the town's judicial administrator and podestà (local administrator) of Chiusi della Verna. Michelangelo's mother was Francesca di Neri del Miniato di Siena. [12] The Buonarrotis claimed to descend from the Countess Matilde di Canossa—a claim that remains unproven, but which Michelangelo ...
Lorenzo il Magnifico was buried at the entrance wall of the Medici Chapel. Sculptures of the Madonna and Child and the Medici patron saints Cosmas and Damian were set over his sepulchre; of these the Medici Madonna was Michelangelo's own work. The concealed corridor with wall drawings of Michelangelo under the New Sacristy were discovered in 1976.
They were sent as ambassador to Boniface VIII to negotiate a truce between the rival Guelph factions cementing their position in the center of power of the Republic. [3] Bartolomea Altoviti was the wife of Salvestro de' Medici , Gonfalonier of Justice and cousin of Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici , who established the Medicean domination in the ...
FILE - German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi speak during a press conference in front of Michelangelo's "David statue" after their bilateral summit in ...
Michelangelo, Punishment of Tityus, c. 1532 Michelangelo, The Fall of Phaeton, c. 1533 Copy derived from Michelangelo's lost Rape of Ganymede, c. 1532 Michelangelo, The Dream, c. 1533. The two drawings at left both represent a muscular male attacked by an eagle. Tityus was the son of a human princess and the god Zeus.
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