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Galilei was born in Florence.He learned to play the lute at an early age, like his father. Most likely he was destined for a career in Florence, but when his father died in 1591, the sixteen-year-old lutenist was put in the charge of his older brother Galileo Galilei, who was in Padua.
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.
The Altoviti are a prominent noble family of Florence, Italy.Since the medieval period they were one of the most distinguished banking and political families appointed to the highest offices of the Republic of Florence, friends and patrons of Galileo Galilei, Vasari, Raphael, and Michelangelo.
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 Florence museum housing Michelangelo’s Renaissance masterpiece the David on Sunday invited parents and students from a Florida charter school to visit after complaints about a lesson ...
Tommaso dei Cavalieri (c. 1509 —1587) was an Italian nobleman, who was the object of the greatest expression of Michelangelo's love. [3] [4] Michelangelo was 57 years old when he met Cavalieri in 1532.
Though little-known today, he was regarded in his time and is featured in Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists. Granacci was born in 1469 in Villamagna , and was trained in Florence in the workshop of Domenico Ghirlandaio , where he became lifelong friends with Michelangelo.
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