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You may copy it, + give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project + Gutenberg License <a href="#pglicense" class="tei tei-ref">included with this + eBook</a> or online at <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/license" class="tei tei-xref">http://www.gutenberg.org/license</a></p></div><pre class="pre tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 3.00em; margin-top: 3.00em">Title: Michael Angelo Buonarroti + +Author: Charles Holroyd + +Release Date: September 19, 2006 [Ebook #19332] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MICHAEL ANGELO BUONARROTI*** +</pre></div> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-titlePage"> + <span class="tei tei-docTitle"><span class="tei tei-titlePart"><span style="font-size: 144%">Michael Angelo Buonarroti</span></span></span> + <div class="tei tei-byline"><br />By <span class="tei tei-docAuthor">Charles Holroyd</span>,<br /><br /> +Keeper of the National Gallery of +British Art, with Translations +of the Life of the Master by His +Scholar, Ascanio Condivi, and +Three Dialogues from the Portuguese +by Francisco d'Ollanda<br /><br /></div> + +<span class="tei tei-docImprint">London<br /> +Duckworth and Company<br /><br /> +New York<br /> +Charles Scribner's Sons<br /><br /></span> +<span class="tei tei-docDate">1903</span> +</div> + + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image01" id="image01" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig1" id="fig1"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image01.png" width="480" height="484" alt="Frontispiece" title="MICHAEL ANGELO" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">MICHAEL ANGELO</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">From an early proof of the engraving by<br /> +GIULIO BONASONI<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">In the Print Room of the British Museum</span></span>)</p></div> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Contents</span></h1> +<ul class="tei tei-index tei-index-toc"><li><a href="#toc2">Preface</a></li><li><a href="#toc5">Illustrations</a></li><li><a href="#toc6">PART I</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc8">CHAPTER I</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc10">CHAPTER II</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc12">CHAPTER III</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc14">CHAPTER IV</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc16">CHAPTER V</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc18">CHAPTER VI</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc20">CHAPTER VII</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc22">CHAPTER VIII</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc24">CHAPTER IX</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc26">CHAPTER X</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc28">CHAPTER XI</a></li><li><a href="#toc30">PART II</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc32">CHAPTER I</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc36">CHAPTER II</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc39">CHAPTER III</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc47">CHAPTER IV</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc51">CHAPTER V</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc54">CHAPTER VI</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc74">CHAPTER VII</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc80">CHAPTER VIII</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc90">CHAPTER IX</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc95">CHAPTER X</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc101">CHAPTER XI</a></li><li><a href="#toc103">APPENDIX</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc105">FIRST DIALOGUE</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc107">SECOND DIALOGUE</a></li><li style="margin-left: 2em"><a href="#toc109">THIRD DIALOGUE</a></li><li><a href="#toc111">THE WORKS OF MICHAEL ANGELO</a></li><li><a href="#toc113">A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL BOOKS +CONSULTED BY THE AUTHOR</a></li><li><a href="#toc115">ERRATUM</a></li><li><a href="#toc117">INDEX</a></li></ul> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc2" id="toc2"></a><a name="pdf3" id="pdf3"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="pagev">[pg v]</span><a name="Pgv" id="Pgv" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Preface</span></h1> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Of all the many lives of Michael Angelo that have been +written, that by his friend and pupil, Ascanio Condivi, is +the most valuable. For not only is it a contemporary +record, like the lives inserted by Giorgio Vasari in the two +editions of his famous book, "The Lives of the Most +Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects," published +in Florence in 1550 and 1568; but Condivi's work has +almost the authority of an autobiography, many phrases +are in the same words, as certain letters in the hand of +Michael Angelo still in existence, especially those relating +to the early life and the ancestry of the master, to his +favourite nephew Lionardo, and concerning the whole +story of the Tragedy of the Tomb to Francesco Fattucci +and others.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Condivi's description of his master's personal appearance +is so detailed that we can see him with his sculptor's +callipers measuring the head of his dear master, and gazing +earnestly into his eyes, recording the colours of their +scintillations, with the patience of a painter.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-pb" id="pagevi">[pg vi]</span><a name="Pgvi" id="Pgvi" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Vasari's account has been translated more than once, +but Condivi's never, at least never completely. Extracts +have been given, and it has been the main resource of every +writer on the master; but the faithful and reverent character +of the whole work can only be given in a complete translation, +its transparent honesty, and its loving devotion. +Even had the subject of this naif and unscholarly narrative +been an ordinary man in an ordinary period, it would have +been worth translating for its truth to life and human +nature, much more, therefore, when it is about the greatest +craftsman of the Cinque Cento.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Condivi published his "Vita di Michael Angelo +Buonarroti" on July 16, 1553; probably incited thereto +by the master himself, who desired to correct certain misstatements +of his excellent friend, Giorgio Vasari, without +hurting that worthy's feelings. Nevertheless, we gather +from what Vasari says in his second edition that he somewhat +resented the appearance of this new biographer. +Perhaps this coloured his unflattering account of Condivi +as an artist, when describing Michael Angelo's scholars: +"Ascanio della Ripa took great pains, but no results have +been seen, whether in designs or finished works. He spent +several years over a picture for which Michael Angelo had +given him the cartoon, and, at a word, the hopes conceived +of him have vanished in smoke." What a good thing it +would have been for Vasari's reputation if his art work +had vanished in smoke, too, and only his biographies +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="pagevii">[pg vii]</span><a name="Pgvii" id="Pgvii" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>remained. Condivi lives, as he said he wished to live, in +the dedication of his work to Pope Julius III., with the +name of being a faithful servant and disciple of Michael +Angelo.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A second edition of the "Vita di Michael Angelo," by +Ascanio Condivi, was published at Florence in 1746. The +introduction informs us that Condivi was born at Ripa +Transona, and that he outlived his master ten years, dying +on February 17, 1563 (1564), aged nearly eighty-nine +years.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The second part of this book may be regarded as an +appendix<a id="noteref_1" name="noteref_1" href="#note_1"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">1</span></span></a> to Condivi. It is a supplementary account of +the existing works of the master, and details of their +fashioning that may help us to realise the mystery of their +production, from contemporary documents: letters, contracts, +and the life by Vasari, with some few explanations +that will not interest the learned, but may help young +students of the works of the great master. Londoners +have peculiar facilities for this study. The bas-relief in the +Diploma Gallery of the Royal Academy, the drawings in +the British Museum, and the unfinished and altered picture +at the National Gallery, are an excellent foundation from +which to study the casts at Kensington and in the Crystal +Palace (the latter are unique in this country, but, alas! in +a poor state now). Students of to-day have one immense +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="pageviii">[pg viii]</span><a name="Pgviii" id="Pgviii" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>advantage over those of former times in the magnificent +series of photographs that have been issued, especially +those of the vault of the Sistine Chapel, which may +almost be said never to have been so well seen before.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Since this book went to press, the author has seen an +antique intaglio, No. 210 in the Estense Collection at +Modena, which he is informed came from Ferrara in 1598, +representing a Leda. This confirms the view expressed in +the note on page 61, as to the genesis of the Leda by +Michael Angelo, for it is exactly similar in composition.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The author desires to express his gratitude to many +friends for valuable advice and assistance, especially to +his wife for help in the translations, and to Mr. S. Arthur +Strong for kindly looking over the proofs, and other aid; +to the Earl of Leicester, of Holkham, for permission to +photograph and reproduce the Cartoon at Holkham Hall; +to the trustees of the British Museum and Mr. Sidney +Colvin for facilities to reproduce two engravings in the +Print Room; to the Signori Fratelli Alinari, Signor +Anderson, Mm. Braun et Cie., and Signor Brogi, for kindly +allowing their photographs to be used in making the +illustrations.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="pdf4" id="pdf4"></a><a name="toc5" id="toc5"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="pagexi">[pg xi]</span><a name="Pgxi" id="Pgxi" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">Illustrations</span></h1> +<ul class="tei tei-index tei-index-fig"><li><a href="#fig1">MICHAEL ANGELO</a></li><li><a href="#fig34">THE RAPE OF DEIANEIRA AND THE BATTLE OF THE CENTAURS</a></li><li><a href="#fig35">THE ANGEL AT THE SHRINE OF SAINT DOMINIC</a></li><li><a href="#fig38">THE MADONNA BELLA PIETÀ</a></li><li><a href="#fig41">DAVID</a></li><li><a href="#fig42">DAVID</a></li><li><a href="#fig43">SAINT MATTHEW</a></li><li><a href="#fig44">THE MADONNA AND CHILD, WITH THE CHILD SAINT JOHN</a></li><li><a href="#fig45">THE HOLY FAMILY</a></li><li><a href="#fig46">THE CARTOON OF PISA</a></li><li><a href="#fig49">MOSES</a></li><li><a href="#fig50">TWO OF THE UNFINISHED MARBLE STATUES IN THE GROTTO OF THE +BOBOLI GARDENS, FLORENCE</a></li><li><a href="#fig53">THE CREATION OF THE SUN AND MOON, AND OF THE TREES AND HERBS</a></li><li><a href="#fig56">CREATION OF MAN</a></li><li><a href="#fig57">CREATION OF MAN</a></li><li><a href="#fig58">THE CREATION OF EVE</a></li><li><a href="#fig59">THE EXPULSION</a></li><li><a href="#fig60">THE DELUGE</a></li><li><a href="#fig61">ATHLETE</a></li><li><a href="#fig62">ATHLETE</a></li><li><a href="#fig63">ATHLETE</a></li><li><a href="#fig64">ATHLETE</a></li><li><a href="#fig65">THE DELPHIC SIBYL</a></li><li><a href="#fig66">THE PROPHET JOEL</a></li><li><a href="#fig67">THE PROPHET EZEKIEL</a></li><li><a href="#fig68">THE PROPHET DANIEL</a></li><li><a href="#fig69">THE LIBYAN SIBYL</a></li><li><a href="#fig70">THE PROPHET JEREMIAH</a></li><li><a href="#fig71">THE FLOOD</a></li><li><a href="#fig72">THE BRAZEN SERPENT</a></li><li><a href="#fig73">JUDITH WITH THE HEAD OF HOLOFERNES</a></li><li><a href="#fig76">ONE OF THE ANCESTORS OF CHRIST, OVER THE WINDOW +INSCRIBED "JESSE"</a></li><li><a href="#fig77">ONE OF THE ANCESTORS OF CHRIST, OVER THE WINDOW +INSCRIBED "IORAM"</a></li><li><a href="#fig78">ONE OF THE ANCESTORS OF CHRIST, OVER THE WINDOW +INSCRIBED "ASA"</a></li><li><a href="#fig79">THE PROPHET JONAH</a></li><li><a href="#fig82">THE TOMB OF LORENZO DE' MEDICI, DUKE OF URBINO</a></li><li><a href="#fig83">THE TOMB OF GIULIANO DE' MEDICI, DUKE OF NEMOURS</a></li><li><a href="#fig84">LORENZO DE MEDICI, DUKE OF URBINO</a></li><li><a href="#fig85">THE HEAD OF THE DAWN</a></li><li><a href="#fig86">APOLLO</a></li><li><a href="#fig87">THE HEAD OF THE NIGHT</a></li><li><a href="#fig88">NIGHT</a></li><li><a href="#fig89">THE MADONNA AND CHILD</a></li><li><a href="#fig92">THE DAY OF JUDGMENT</a></li><li><a href="#fig93">THE JUDGE. <span style="font-variant: small-caps">from</span> "THE DAY OF JUDGMENT"</a></li><li><a href="#fig94">SPIRITS OF THE BLESSED, <span style="font-variant: small-caps">part of</span> "THE DAY OF JUDGMENT"</a></li><li><a href="#fig97">THE CRUCIFIXION OF SAINT PETER</a></li><li><a href="#fig98">THE CONVERSION OF SAINT PAUL</a></li><li><a href="#fig99">THE PIETÀ OF SANTA MARIA DEL FIORE</a></li><li><a href="#fig100">BRUTUS</a></li></ul> +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-body" style="margin-bottom: 6.00em; margin-top: 6.00em"> +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc6" id="toc6"></a><a name="pdf7" id="pdf7"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page1">[pg 1]</span><a name="Pg1" id="Pg1" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">PART I</span></h1> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">THE LIFE OF MICHAEL ANGELO BUONARROTI,<br /> +BY HIS SCHOLAR ASCANIO CONDIVI,<br /> +TRANSLATED BY CHARLES HOLROYD</p> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc8" id="toc8"></a><a name="pdf9" id="pdf9"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page3">[pg 3]</span><a name="Pg3" id="Pg3" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">CHAPTER I</span></h2> + +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.40em; margin-top: 2.40em"><span style="font-size: 120%">THE RAPE OF DEIANIRA, OR THE BATTLE OF THE +CENTAURS AND THE ANGEL OF THE SHRINE OF +SAINT DOMINIC</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Michael Angelo Buonarroti, the unique painter and +sculptor, was descended from the Counts of Canossa, a +noble and illustrious family of the land of Reggio, both on +account of their own worth and antiquity, and because +they had Imperial blood in their veins.<a id="noteref_2" name="noteref_2" href="#note_2"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">2</span></span></a> For Beatrice, +sister of Enrico II., was given in marriage to Count +Bonifazio of Canossa, then Signor of Mantua; the Countess +Matilda was their daughter, a lady of rare and singular +prudence and piety; who, after the death of her husband +Gottifredo, held in Italy (besides Mantua) Lucca, Parma, +Reggio, and part of Tuscany, which to-day is called the +Patrimonio of San Pietro; and, having in her lifetime done +many things worthy of memory, died and was buried in +the Badia of San Benedetto, beyond the walls of Mantua, +which abbey she had built, and largely endowed.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page4">[pg 4]</span><a name="Pg4" id="Pg4" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>II. Messer Simone then, of this family, coming to +Florence as Podestà<a id="noteref_3" name="noteref_3" href="#note_3"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">3</span></span></a> in the year 1250, was deemed worthy +of being made a citizen, and head of a <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">sesitiere</span></span> or sixth +part of the town, for into so many wards was the township +divided at that time; to-day the wards are <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">quartieri</span></span> or +fourth parts. The Guelph party were in power in Florence, +and he, from Ghibelline that he was, became Guelph, +because of the many benefits he received from that faction, +changing the colour of his coat-of-arms, which originally +was gules, a dog rampant with a bone in his mouth, +argent—to azure, a dog or; and the Signoria afterwards +granted him five lilies, gules, in a Rastrello, and at +the same time the crest with two horns of a bull, the +one or, and the other azure, as may be seen to this day +painted on their ancient shields; the old arms of Messer +Simone may be seen in the palace of the Podestà, carved +in marble by his orders, according to the custom of those +who held that office.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">III. The reason why the family in Florence changed +their name from Canossa to de'Buonarroti was because the +name Buonarroto was usual in their house from age to age, +almost always, down to the time of Michael Angelo himself, +who had a brother called Buonarroto, and many of +these Buonarroti being of the Signori, that is of the +supreme magistracy of the Republic; the said brother +especially, who was of that body at the time when Pope +Leo was in Florence, as may be seen in the annals of the +city; this name held by so many of them became a surname +for the whole family, the more easily as it is the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page5">[pg 5]</span><a name="Pg5" id="Pg5" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>custom of Florence in the lists of voters and other nomination +papers, after the proper name of the citizen, to add that +of his father, his grandfather, his great-grandfather, and +even of those further removed. Therefore, from the many +Buonarroti thus continued, and from that Simone who +was the first of the family to settle in Florence, and who +was of the House of Canossa, they became Buonarroti +Simoni, for so they are called at this day. Lastly, Pope +Leo X. being at Florence, besides many other privileges, +gave to this family the right to bear on their coat the +palla or ball, azure, of the arms of the House of Medici, +with three lilies, or</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">IV. Of such family, then, was Michael Angelo born; his +father's name was Lodovico di Leonardo Buonarroti +Simoni, a good and religious man, somewhat old-fashioned. +Michael Angelo was born to him whilst he was Podestà of +Chiusi and Caprese<a id="noteref_4" name="noteref_4" href="#note_4"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">4</span></span></a> in the Casentino, in the year of our +salvation 1474,<a id="noteref_5" name="noteref_5" href="#note_5"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">5</span></span></a> on the sixth day of March, four hours +before daylight on a Monday. A fine nativity truly, which +showed how great the child would be and of how noble a +genius; for the planet Mercury with Venus in seconda +being received into the house of Jupiter with benign +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page6">[pg 6]</span><a name="Pg6" id="Pg6" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>aspect, promised what afterwards followed, that the birth +should be of a noble and high genius, able to succeed +in every undertaking, but principally in those arts that +delight the senses, such as painting, sculpture, and architecture. +Having completed his term of office, the father +returned to Florence and put the child out to nurse in +the village of Settignano, three miles from the city, where +he had a property, which was one of the first places in +that country bought by Messer Simone da Canossa. The +nurse was a daughter of a stone-carver and the wife of a +stone-carver, so Michael Angelo used to say jestingly, but +perhaps in earnest too, that it was no wonder he delighted +in the use of the chisel, knowing that the milk of the +foster-mother has such power in us that often it will +change the disposition, one bent being thus altered to +another of a very different nature.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">V. The child grew and came to be of a reasonable age. +His father, noticing his ability, desired that he should +devote himself to letters; he therefore sent him to the +school of a certain Maestro Francesco da Urbino, who in +those days taught grammar in Florence;<a id="noteref_6" name="noteref_6" href="#note_6"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">6</span></span></a> but although +Michael Angelo made progress in these studies, still the +heavens and his nature, both difficult to withstand, drew +him towards the study of painting, so that he could not +resist, whenever he could steal the time, drawing now here, +now there, and seeking the company of painters. Amongst +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page7">[pg 7]</span><a name="Pg7" id="Pg7" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>his familiar friends was Francesco Granacci, a scholar of +Domenico del Grillandaio,<a id="noteref_7" name="noteref_7" href="#note_7"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">7</span></span></a> who, seeing the ardent longing +and burning desire of the child, determined to aid him, +and continually exhorted him to the study of art, now +lending him drawings and now taking him with him to +the workshops of his master when some works were going +forward from which he might learn. These sights moved +Michael Angelo so powerfully, following as they did his +nature, which never ceased to urge him, that he altogether +abandoned letters. So that his father and his uncles, who +held the art in contempt, were much displeased, and often +beat him severely for it: they were so ignorant of the +excellence and nobility of art that they thought shame to +have her in the house. This, however much he disliked +it, was not enough to turn him back, but, on the contrary, +made him more bold: he wished to begin to colour, and he +borrowed a print from Granacci which represented the +story of St. Antony when he was beaten by devils. The +engraver was a certain Martino d'Olanda,<a id="noteref_8" name="noteref_8" href="#note_8"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">8</span></span></a> a brave artist +for that time. Michael Angelo painted it on a panel of +wood, Granacci lending him colours and brushes, in such +a manner that not only did it raise the admiration of +every one who saw it, but also envy, as some will have it, +even in Domenico, the most famous painter of the day; +as may be seen by what happened afterwards. Domenico +used to say that the painting came from his own workshop +in order to make it appear less wonderful. In this +little picture, besides the figure of the Saint, there were +many strange forms and <span class="tei tei-corr">monstrosities</span> in the demons; +these Michael Angelo executed with so much care that no +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page8">[pg 8]</span><a name="Pg8" id="Pg8" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>part of them was coloured without reference to the natural +object from which it had been derived. For that purpose +he frequented the fish-market and observed the forms and +tints of the scales and fins of fish and the colours of their +eyes and all their other parts, copying them in his picture, +which much conduced to the perfection of that work, exciting +the wonder of the world, and, as I have said, some +envy in Grillandaio; this was much more seen one day +when Michael Angelo asked to see his book of drawings +in which were represented shepherds with their flocks and +dogs, landscapes, buildings, ruins, and such like things. +Domenico would not lend it to him—indeed, he had the +reputation of being a little envious: for not only was he +hardly courteous to Michael Angelo, but even to his own +brother, when he saw that he was progressing rapidly and +having great hopes of himself: he sent him into France, +not so much that it might be to his advantage, as some +say, but that he himself might remain the first artist in +Florence. The reason I have mentioned this is because I +have heard it said that the son of Domenico attributes +the excellence and divinity of Michael Angelo in great +part to the training he received from his father: he +received absolutely no assistance from him;<a id="noteref_9" name="noteref_9" href="#note_9"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">9</span></span></a> nevertheless, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page9">[pg 9]</span><a name="Pg9" id="Pg9" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Michael Angelo does not complain of it, nay, even praises +Domenico both for his art and his manners. But this is a +slight digression; let us return to our story.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">VI. Possibly not less wonderful was another labour of +Michael Angelo's done at this time, perhaps as a jest. +Some one lent him a drawing of a head to copy; he returned +his copy to the owner instead of the original and +the deception was not noticed, but the boy talking and +laughing about it with one of his companions it was +found out. Many people compared the two and found no +difference in them, for besides the perfection of the drawing, +Michael Angelo had smoked the paper to make it appear +of the same age as the original. This brought him a +great reputation.<a id="noteref_10" name="noteref_10" href="#note_10"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">10</span></span></a></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">VII. Now drawing one thing and now another, the +boy had no fixed plan or method of study. It happened +one day that Granacci took him to the gardens of the +Medici at San Marco. In this garden the Magnificent +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page10">[pg 10]</span><a name="Pg10" id="Pg10" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Lorenzo, father of Pope Leo, a man renowned for every +excellence, had disposed many antique statues and decorative +sculptures. Michael Angelo, seeing these things and +appreciating the beauty of them, never afterwards went +to the workshop of Domenico, but spent every day at the +gardens, as in a better school, always working at something +or other. Amongst the rest, he studied one day +the head of a Faun, in appearance very old, with a long +beard and a laughing face, although the mouth could +hardly be seen because of the injuries of time. As if knowing +what would be, or because he liked the style of it, he +determined to copy it in marble. The Magnificent +Lorenzo was having some marble worked and dressed in +that place to ornament the most noble library that he +and his ancestors had gathered together from all parts of +the world. (These works, suspended on account of the +death of Lorenzo and other accidents, were, after many +years, carried on by Pope Clement, but even then they +were left unfinished, so that the books are still packed in +chests.) Now these marbles being worked, as I said, +Michael Angelo begged a piece from the masons and borrowed +a chisel from them: with so much diligence and +intelligence did he copy that Faun that in a few days it +was carried to perfection, his imagination supplying all +that was missing in the antique, such as the lips, open, as +in a man who is laughing, so that the hollow of the +mouth was seen with all the teeth. At this moment +passed the Magnificent to see how his works progressed; he +found the child, who was busy polishing the head. He +spoke to him at once, noticing in the first place the beauty +of the work, and having regard to the lad's youth he +marvelled exceedingly, and although he praised the workmanship +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page11">[pg 11]</span><a name="Pg11" id="Pg11" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>he none the less joked with him as with a child, +saying: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Oh! you have made this Faun very old, and yet +have left him all his teeth: do you not know that old men of that +age always lack some of them?</span></span>" It seemed a thousand years +to Michael Angelo before the Magnificent went away and +he remained alone to correct his error. He cut away a tooth +from the upper jaw, drilling a hole in the gums as though +it had come out by the roots.<a id="noteref_11" name="noteref_11" href="#note_11"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">11</span></span></a> He awaited the return of +the Magnificent upon another day with great longing. +At last he came. Seeing the willingness and single-mindedness +of the child he laughed very much, but +afterwards appreciating the beauty of the thing and +the boy's youth, as father of all talent he thought to +bestow his favour upon such a genius and take him +into his house, and hearing from him whose son he was, +he said: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Let your father know that I desire to speak +with him.</span></span>"</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">VIII. When he got home Michael Angelo carried out +the embassy of the Magnificent; his father divining why +he was called, with great persuasion from Granacci and +others made ready to go: lamenting to himself that his +son would be taken away. Stating, moreover, that he +would never suffer his son to be a stonemason, it was +useless for Granacci to explain how great was the difference +between a sculptor and a mason. After all this long +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page12">[pg 12]</span><a name="Pg12" id="Pg12" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>disputation he ultimately was ushered into the presence of +the Magnificent, who asked him if he would deliver his +son over to his care, for he would not neglect him; "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Even +so,</span></span>" he replied, "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">not only Michael Angelo, but all of us, +with our lives and all our best faculties, are at the service of +your Magnificence.</span></span>" And when the Magnificent asked +what he could do for himself, he replied: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">I have never +practised any profession; but have always lived upon my +small income and attended to the small property left to me +by my ancestors; trying not only to keep it up properly, but +also endeavouring to increase it as far as I may with my +powers and by my diligence.</span></span>" The Magnificent then replied: +"<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Very well, look about you, see if there is not something +in Florence that will suit you; make use of me; I +will do the best I can for you.</span></span>" And so dismissing the old +man, he gave Michael Angelo a good room in his own +house with all that he needed,<a id="noteref_12" name="noteref_12" href="#note_12"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">12</span></span></a> treating him like a son, +with a seat at his table, which was frequented every day +by noblemen and men of great affairs. Now they had a +custom that those who were present at the beginning of a +meal should take their places next to the Magnificent +according to their rank, and should not change them, no +matter who came in afterwards; so that often Michael +Angelo was seated even above the sons of Lorenzo and +other persons of quality; for in that house noble persons +abounded: by all of them Michael Angelo was caressed and +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page13">[pg 13]</span><a name="Pg13" id="Pg13" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>incited to his honourable work; but above all by the Magnificent, +who would often call for him many times in the +day to show him engraved gems,<a id="noteref_13" name="noteref_13" href="#note_13"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">13</span></span></a> cornelians, medals, and +such like things of great price, seeing that he had genius +and good judgment.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">IX. Michael Angelo was between fifteen and sixteen +years of age when he entered the house of the Magnificent, +and he stayed with him until his death, which was in +ninety-two,<a id="noteref_14" name="noteref_14" href="#note_14"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">14</span></span></a> a space of two years. During that time an +office in the customs fell vacant which could only be held +by a Florentine citizen; so Lodovico, the father of Michael +Angelo, came to the Magnificent and spoke for it: +"<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Lorenzo, I can do nothing but read and write; the comrade +of Marco Pucci in the Dogana is dead. I should like +to have his place. I believe I shall be able to carry out the +duties properly.</span></span>" The Magnificent put his hand upon his +shoulder and, smiling, said: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">You will always be poor</span></span>," +for he expected that he would ask for some great thing. +However, he continued, "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">If you will be the comrade of +Marco, be it so, till something better turns up</span></span>." This place +brought him eight scudi<a id="noteref_15" name="noteref_15" href="#note_15"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">15</span></span></a> the month, a little more or a +little less.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">X. In the meantime Michael Angelo prosecuted his +studies, showing the result of his labours to the Magnificent +each day. In the same house lived Poliziano, a man, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page14">[pg 14]</span><a name="Pg14" id="Pg14" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>as every one knows, and as is testified by his works, most +learned and witty. This man recognising the lofty spirit +of Michael Angelo loved him exceedingly, and little as +he needed it, spurred him on in his studies, always explaining +things to him and giving him subjects. One day, +amongst others, he suggested "The Rape of Deianira" +and "The Battle of the Centaurs," telling him in detail +the whole of the story. Michael Angelo set himself to +carve it out in marble in mezzo-rilievo, and so well did he +succeed, that I remember to have heard him say that when +he saw it again he recognised how much wrong he had +done to his nature in not following promptly the art of +sculpture, judging by that work how well he might have +succeeded, nor does he say this boastingly, he was a most +modest man, but because he truly laments having been so +unfortunate that by the fault of others he has sometimes +been ten or twelve years doing nothing, as will be seen +presently. This particular work may still be seen in +Florence in his house; the figures are about two palms +high.<a id="noteref_16" name="noteref_16" href="#note_16"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">16</span></span></a> He had hardly finished this work when the +Magnificent Lorenzo passed out of this life, and Michael +Angelo returned to his father's house. So much grief did +he feel for his patron's death that for many days he +was unable to work. When he was himself again he +bought a large piece of marble, that had for many years +been exposed to the wind and rain, and carved a Hercules +out of it, four braccia high, that was ultimately sent into +France.<a id="noteref_17" name="noteref_17" href="#note_17"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">17</span></span></a></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page15">[pg 15]</span><a name="Pg15" id="Pg15" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>XI. Whilst he was working at this statue there was a +great snowstorm in Florence, and Pier de' Medici, the +eldest son of Lorenzo, who occupied the same position +as his father, wished childishly to have a statue of +snow made in the middle of the court-yard, so he +remembered Michael Angelo, and had him found and +made him carve the statue.<a id="noteref_18" name="noteref_18" href="#note_18"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">18</span></span></a> He desired him to live +in his house as he had done in his father's time, and +gave him the same apartment and a place at the table +as before; where the same customs obtained as when +the father was living, that is, that after they had sat +down at the beginning of a meal no one should change +his place however great might be the personage who +came in afterwards.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XII. Lodovico, the father of Michael Angelo, now +became more friendly to his son, seeing that he was almost +always in the society of great personages, and he dressed +him in finer clothes. The youth lived with Piero some +months and was much caressed by him. Piero used to +say, boastingly, that he had two remarkable men in +his establishment: one was Michael Angelo, and the +other a certain Spanish groom who, besides being +marvellously beautiful to look upon, was so nimble and +strong and so long-winded that, let Piero ride as fast +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page16">[pg 16]</span><a name="Pg16" id="Pg16" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>as he could, he was not able to pass the runner by a +finger.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XIII. At this time, Michael Angelo, to please the +Prior of Santo Spirito, a church much venerated in +Florence, carved a crucifix in wood, a little under life size, +which to this day may be seen over the high altar of that +church.<a id="noteref_19" name="noteref_19" href="#note_19"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">19</span></span></a> He had much familiar intercourse with the +Prior, and received many kindnesses from him, amongst +others the use of a room and subjects to enable him to +study anatomy. Nothing could have given him more +pleasure, and this was the beginning of his study of the +science of anatomy, which he followed until fortune had +made him a master of it.<a id="noteref_20" name="noteref_20" href="#note_20"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">20</span></span></a></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XIV. There was living in the house of Piero a certain +man named Cardiere, who had been very acceptable to the +Magnifico, he improvised songs to the lyre most marvellously; +in fact, he made a profession of it, and practised +his art nearly every evening after supper. This man was +friendly with Michael Angelo and imparted to him a +vision, which was this: That Lorenzo de' Medici had +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page17">[pg 17]</span><a name="Pg17" id="Pg17" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>appeared to him with nothing but a black cloak, all torn, +over his naked body, and had commanded him to speak to +his son, and tell him that shortly he would be hunted out +of his house and never return to it again. Piero de' +Medici was so proud and insolent that neither the generosity +of his brother, Giovanni the Cardinal, nor the +courtesy and kindness of Giuliano, were so powerful to +keep him in Florence as those vices were to hunt him out. +Michael Angelo exhorted Cardiere to inform Piero of the +vision and carry out the will of Lorenzo, but he, fearing +Piero's nature, kept all to himself. One other morning +Michael Angelo was in the court-yard of the Palace, and +beheld Cardiere all terrified and weeping: that night, he +said, Lorenzo had appeared to him again in the same +form as at first, and looking him through and through +had given him a terrible box on the ears, because he had +not reported what he had seen to Piero. Michael Angelo +scolded him to such purpose that Cardiere plucked up his +spirit and set out on foot for Careggi, a country house of +the Medici, about three miles from the city, where his +master was staying. But when he was half-way there he +met Piero on the road returning home to Florence; +Cardiere stopped him and told him all he had seen and +heard. Piero only laughed at him, and made even his +grooms jeer at him. The Chancellor, who was afterwards +the Cardinal Bibbiena, said to him: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">You must be mad! +Do you think Lorenzo would rather appear to you or to his +own son? Would he not rather appear to him than to any +one else?</span></span>" They ridiculed him and let him go. He +went home and bemoaned himself to Michael Angelo, +and he spoke so effectually of the vision, holding that +the thing was true, that two days afterwards with two +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page18">[pg 18]</span><a name="Pg18" id="Pg18" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>companions they left Florence together for Bologna, and +from there went to Venice, fearful lest that which Cardiere +prophesied should come to pass, and Florence not be safe +for them!</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XV. In a few days lack of funds (his companions +having spent all his money) made Michael Angelo think +of returning to Florence; but coming to Bologna a curious +chance hindered them. Now there was a law in that +land in the time of Messer Giovanni Bentivogli that every +stranger who entered into Bologna should be obliged to +have a great seal of red wax impressed upon his nail. +Michael Angelo inadvertently entered without being +sealed, so he was conducted, together with his companions, +to the office of the Bullette, and condemned to pay a fine +of fifty Bolognese lire: not having the wherewithal he +was obliged to remain at the office. A certain Bolognese +gentleman, Messer Gian Francesco Aldovrandi, who was +then of the Sixteen, seeing him there, and hearing the +reason, liberated him, chiefly because he was a sculptor. +Aldovrandi invited the sculptor to his house. Michael +Angelo thanked him, but excused himself because he had +two companions with him who would not leave him, and +he would not burden the gentleman with their company. +To this the gentleman replied: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">I, too, will come and +wander over the world with you, if you will pay my +expenses.</span></span>" With these and other words he prevailed over +Michael Angelo, who excused himself to his companions +and took leave of them, gave them what little money he +had, and went to lodge with the gentleman.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XVI. By this time the House of the Medici, with all +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page19">[pg 19]</span><a name="Pg19" id="Pg19" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>their followers, having been hunted out of Florence, came +to Bologna and were lodged in the House of the Rossi. +Thus the vision of Cardiere, whether a delusion of the +devil, a divine warning, or a strong imagination that had +taken hold of him, was verified; a thing so truly remarkable +that it is worthy of being recorded. I have narrated +it just as I heard it from Michael Angelo himself. It was +about three years after the death of the Magnificent +Lorenzo that his children were exiled from Florence, so +that Michael Angelo was between twenty and twenty-one +years of age when he escaped the first popular tumults by +remaining with the aforesaid gentleman of Bologna until +the city of Florence settled down again. This gentleman +honoured him highly, delighting in his genius, and every +evening he made him read something from Dante or from +Petrarca, or now and then from Boccaccio, until he fell +asleep.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XVII. One day walking together in Bologna they went +to see the ark of San Domenico, in the Church dedicated +to that Saint; two marble figures were still lacking, a San +Petronio and a kneeling angel supporting a candlestick in +his arms. The gentleman asked Michael Angelo if he +had the heart to undertake them, and he replying "yes," +had it arranged that he should have them to do; he was +paid thirty ducats for it, eighteen for the San Petronio, +and twelve for the angel. The figures were three palms high; +they may still be seen in that same place. But afterwards +Michael Angelo mistrusted a Bolognese sculptor, who complained +that he had taken away the commission for the +before-mentioned statues from him, as it had first been +promised to him, and as he threatened to do him an injury +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page20">[pg 20]</span><a name="Pg20" id="Pg20" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Michael Angelo went back to Florence to accommodate +matters,<a id="noteref_21" name="noteref_21" href="#note_21"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">21</span></span></a> as affairs had now become quiet and he could +live safely in his house. He remained with Messer +Gian Francesco Aldovrandi a little over a year.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc10" id="toc10"></a><a name="pdf11" id="pdf11"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page21">[pg 21]</span><a name="Pg21" id="Pg21" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">CHAPTER II</span></h2> + +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.40em; margin-top: 2.40em"><span style="font-size: 120%">THE BACCHUS AND THE MADONNA DELLA PIETÀ +OF SAINT PETER'S</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XVIII. Having returned to his native town Michael +Angelo set to work to carve out of marble a god of Love, +between six and seven years of age, lying asleep; this +figure was seen by Lorenzo di Pier Francesco de' Medici +(for whom in the meantime Michael Angelo had carved a +little Saint John), and he judged that it was most beautiful +and said of it: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">If you can manage to make it look as if it +had been buried under the earth I will forward it to Rome, +it will be taken for an antique and you will sell it much better.</span></span>" +Michael Angelo hearing this immediately prepared it as +one from whom no craft was hidden, so that it looked as if +it had been made many years ago. In this state it was +sent to Rome; the Cardinal di San Giorgio bought it as +an antique for two hundred ducats; though the man who +took all that money only paid thirty ducats to Michael +Angelo as what he had received for the Cupid. So much +of a rogue was he that he deceived at the same time both +Lorenzo di Pier Francesco and Michael Angelo.<a id="noteref_22" name="noteref_22" href="#note_22"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">22</span></span></a> But +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page22">[pg 22]</span><a name="Pg22" id="Pg22" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>meanwhile it came to the ear of the Cardinal how the +putto was made in Florence. Angry at being made a fool +of, he sent one of his gentlemen there, who pretended to +be looking for a sculptor to do some work in Rome. After +visiting many others he came to the house of Michael +Angelo; with a wary eye for what he wanted he observed +the young man and inquired of him if he could let him see +any work; but Michael Angelo not having any to show, +took a pen (for in those days the pencil was not in general +use) and drew a hand with so much ease that the gentleman +was astonished. Afterwards he inquired if he had +never done any works of sculpture. Yes, replied Michael +Angelo, and amongst the rest a Cupid, in such and such a +pose and action. The gentleman understood then that he +had found the man he sought, and narrated how the affair +had gone, and promised him that if he would come with +him to Rome he would make the dealer disgorge, and +arrange matters with his lord which he knew would be +much to his satisfaction. Michael Angelo then, partly to +see Rome, so much be praised by the gentleman as the +widest field for a man to show his genius in, went with +him and lodged in his house near the palace of the +Cardinal, who, advised by letter in the meantime how the +matter stood, laid hands on the merchant who had sold +the Cupid to him as an antique, returned the statue to him, +and got his money back; it afterwards came, I know not +how, into the hands of the Duke Valentino, and was presented +to the Marchesana of Mantua. She sent it to +Mantua, where it is still to be found in the house of the +lords of that city.<a id="noteref_23" name="noteref_23" href="#note_23"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">23</span></span></a> The Cardinal di San Giorgio was +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page23">[pg 23]</span><a name="Pg23" id="Pg23" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>blamed in this affair by many, for the work was seen by +all the craftsmen of Rome, and all, equally, considered it +most beautiful; they thought that he ought not to have +deprived himself of it for the sake of two hundred scudi, +although it was modern, as he was a very rich man. But +he, smarting under the deceit, being able to punish the +man, made him disburse the remainder of the payment. +But nobody suffered more than Michael Angelo, who +never received anything more for it than the money +paid him in Florence. Cardinal di San Giorgio understood +little and was no judge of sculpture, as is shown +clearly enough by the fact that all the time Michael +Angelo remained with him, which was about a year, he +did not give him a single commission.<a id="noteref_24" name="noteref_24" href="#note_24"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">24</span></span></a></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page24">[pg 24]</span><a name="Pg24" id="Pg24" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>XIX. All the same, others were not wanting who +understood such things and who made use of Michael +Angelo. For Messer Iacopo Galli, a Roman gentleman +of good understanding, made him carve a marble Bacchus, +ten palms in height, in his house; this work in form +and bearing in every part corresponds to the description +of the ancient writers—his aspect, merry; the eyes, +squinting and lascivious, like those of people excessively +given to the love of wine. He holds a cup in his right +hand, like one about to drink, and looks at it lovingly, +taking pleasure in the liquor of which he was the inventor; +for this reason he is crowned with a garland of vine leaves. +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page25">[pg 25]</span><a name="Pg25" id="Pg25" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>On his left arm he has a tiger's skin, the animal dedicated +to him, as one that lives on grapes; and the skin was +represented rather than the animal, as Michael Angelo +desired to signify that he who allows his senses to be overcome +by the appetite for that fruit, and the liquor pressed +from it, ultimately loses his life. In his left hand he holds +a bunch of grapes, which a merry and alert little satyr at +his feet furtively enjoys. He appears to be about seven +years old, and the Bacchus eighteen.<a id="noteref_25" name="noteref_25" href="#note_25"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">25</span></span></a> The said Messer +Iacopo desired also that he would carve him a little Cupid.<a id="noteref_26" name="noteref_26" href="#note_26"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">26</span></span></a> +Both of these works may still be seen in the house of +Messer Giuliano and Messer Paolo Galli, courteous and +worthy gentlemen, with whom Michael Angelo has always +retained a real and cordial friendship.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XX. A little afterwards, at the request of the Cardinal +de San Dionigi (called the Cardinal Rovano), he carved +from a block of marble that marvellous statue of our +Lady, which is now in the church of the Madonna della + + +Febbre;<a id="noteref_27" name="noteref_27" href="#note_27"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">27</span></span></a> although at first it was placed in the chapel of +the King of France in the Church of Santa Petronilla, near +to the Sacristy of Saint Peter's, formerly, according to +some, a temple of Mars; this church was destroyed by +Bramante for the sake of his design for the new Saint +Peter's. The Madonna is seated on the stone upon which +the Cross was erected, with her dead son on her lap. He +is of so great and so rare a beauty, that no one beholds +it but is moved to pity. A figure truly worthy of the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page26">[pg 26]</span><a name="Pg26" id="Pg26" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Humanity which belonged to the Son of God, and to such +a Mother; nevertheless, some there be who complain that +the Mother is too young compared to the Son. One day +as I was talking to Michael Angelo of this objection, +"<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Do you not know</span></span>," he said, "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">that chaste women retain +their fresh looks much longer than those who are not chaste? +How much more, therefore, a virgin in whom not even the +least unchaste desire ever arose? And I tell you, moreover, +that such freshness and flower of youth besides being maintained +in her by natural causes, it may possibly be that it was +ordained by the Divine Power to prove to the world the virginity +and perpetual purity of the Mother. It was not necessary +in the Son; but rather the contrary; wishing to show +that the Son of God took upon himself a true human body +subject to all the ills of man, excepting only sin; he did not +allow the divine in him to hold back the human, but let it run +its course and obey its laws, as was proved in His appointed +time. Do not wonder then that I have, for all these reasons, +made the most Holy Virgin, Mother of God, a great deal +younger in comparison with her Son than she is usually +represented. To the Son I have allotted His full age</span></span>." Considerations +worthy of any theologian, wonderful perhaps in +any one else, but not in Michael Angelo, whom God and +Nature have formed not only for his unique craftsmanship, +but also capable of any, the most divine, conceptions, as +may be seen not only in this but in very many of his +arguments and writings. He may have been twenty-four +or twenty-five years old when he finished this work. He +gained great fame and reputation by it, so that already, in +the opinion of the world, not only did he greatly surpass +all others of the time and of the times before, but also he +challenged the ancients themselves.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page27">[pg 27]</span><a name="Pg27" id="Pg27" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><a name="toc12" id="toc12"></a><a name="pdf13" id="pdf13"></a><h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">CHAPTER III</span></h2> + +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.40em; margin-top: 2.40em"><span style="font-size: 120%">THE DAVID AND THE CARTOON OF PISA</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XXI. These works being finished, he had to return to +Florence for family affairs; he stayed there long enough +to carve the statue called by all men the Giant, which +is placed to this day by the door of the Palazzo della +Signoria at the end of the balustrade.<a id="noteref_28" name="noteref_28" href="#note_28"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">28</span></span></a> The thing +happened in this wise. The Operai<a id="noteref_29" name="noteref_29" href="#note_29"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">29</span></span></a> of Santa Maria del +Fiore possessed a piece of marble nine braccia high, which +had been brought from Carrara by an artist<a id="noteref_30" name="noteref_30" href="#note_30"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">30</span></span></a> who was not +so wise as he ought to have been, as it appeared. Because +to transport the marble with greater convenience and less +labour, he had roughed it out on the quay itself in such a +clumsy way, however, that neither he nor any one else had +the courage to put their hands to the block to carve a +statue out of it, either of the full size of the marble or +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page28">[pg 28]</span><a name="Pg28" id="Pg28" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>even one very much less. As they were not able to get +anything out of this piece of marble likely to be any +good, it seemed to Andrea del Monte a San Savino, +that he might obtain the block, and he asked them +to make him a present of it, promising that by joining +certain pieces on to it he would carve a figure from it; +but the Operai, before disposing of it, sent for Michael +Angelo, and told him the wish and offer of Andrea, and, +having heard his opinion that he could get something +good out of it, in the end they offered it to him. Michael +Angelo accepted it, and extracted the above-mentioned +statue without adding any other piece at all, so exactly +to size that the old surface of the outsides of the marble +may be seen on the top of the head and in the base. He +has left the same roughnesses in other of his works, as that +statue for the tomb of Pope Julius II., which represents +Contemplative Life. This is the custom of great masters, +lords of their art. But in the Giant it is more wonderful +than ever, because, besides not adding any pieces, he +amended the faults of the roughing out, an impossible +or, at least, a most difficult thing to do (as Michael Angelo +himself has said). He received four hundred ducats for +this work, and finished it in eighteen months.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XXII. In order that no copy of the Giant should +exist which was not his own handiwork, he had it cast in +bronze, of the size of the original, for his good friend Pier +Soderini, who sent it to France; and similarly he cast a +David with Goliath under him. The one to be seen in +the middle of the court-yard of the Palazzo de'Signori is +by Donatello, a man excellent in his art, and much praised +by Michael Angelo, except for one thing—he had not the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page29">[pg 29]</span><a name="Pg29" id="Pg29" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>patience to properly polish his works; so that in the +distance they look admirable, but close to they lose their +quality. Michael Angelo also cast a bronze group of the +Madonna with her Son in her lap, which was sent into +Flanders<a id="noteref_31" name="noteref_31" href="#note_31"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">31</span></span></a> by certain Flemish merchants, the Moscheroni, +great people at home; they paid him one hundred ducats +for it. And, in order not altogether to give up painting, +he executed a round panel of Our Lady<a id="noteref_32" name="noteref_32" href="#note_32"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">32</span></span></a> for Messer Agnolo +Doni, a Florentine citizen, for which he received seventy +ducats.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XXIII. It was some time since he had worked at that +art, having given himself up to the study of poets and +authors in the vulgar tongue and writing sonnets for his +own pleasure. After the death of Pope Alexander VI. he +was called to Rome by Pope Julius II., and received a +hundred ducats in Florence as his <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">viaticum</span></span>. At this +time Michael Angelo was about twenty-nine years old; +for if we count from his birth in 1474, already stated, to +the death of the above Alexander, which was in 1503, we +shall find the number of years as given.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc14" id="toc14"></a><a name="pdf15" id="pdf15"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page30">[pg 30]</span><a name="Pg30" id="Pg30" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">CHAPTER IV</span></h2> + +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.40em; margin-top: 2.40em"><span style="font-size: 120%">THE FIRST ACT OF THE TRAGEDY OF THE TOMB</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XXIV. Coming then to Rome, many months<a id="noteref_33" name="noteref_33" href="#note_33"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">33</span></span></a> passed +before Julius II. resolved in what way to employ him. +Ultimately it came into his head to get him to make his +monument. When he saw Michael Angelo's design it +pleased him so much that he at once sent him to Carrara +to quarry the necessary marbles, instructing Alamanno +Salviati, of Florence, to pay him a thousand ducats for +this purpose. Michael Angelo stayed in these mountains +more than eight months with two workmen and his horse, +and without any other salary except his food. One day +whilst he was there he saw a crag that overlooked the sea, +which made him wish to carve a colossus that would be a +landmark for sailors from a long way off, incited thereto +principally by the suitable shape of the rock from which +it could have been conveniently carved, and by emulation +of the ancients, who, perhaps with the same object as +Michael Angelo not to be idle, or for some other end, left +several records unfinished and sketched out, which give a +good idea of their powers. And of a surety he would +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page31">[pg 31]</span><a name="Pg31" id="Pg31" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>have done it if he had had time enough, or the business +upon which he had come had allowed him. He afterwards +much regretted not having carried it out. Enough +marbles quarried and chosen, he took them to the sea +coast and left one of his men to have them embarked. He +himself returned to Rome, and because he stopped some +days in Florence on the way, when he arrived at Rome he +found the first boat already at the Ripa<a id="noteref_34" name="noteref_34" href="#note_34"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">34</span></span></a> unloading. He +had the blocks carried to the piazza of St. Peter's, behind +Santa Caterina, where he had his workshop near the Corridore.<a id="noteref_35" name="noteref_35" href="#note_35"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">35</span></span></a> +The quantity of marble was immense, so that, +spread over the piazza, they were the admiration of all +and a joy to the Pope, who heaped immeasurable favours +upon Michael Angelo; and when he began to work upon +them again and again went to see him at his house, and +talked with him of monuments and other matters as with +his own brother; and in order that he might more easily +go to him, the Pope ordered that a drawbridge should be +thrown across from the Corridore to the rooms of Michael +Angelo, by which he might visit him in private.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XXV. These many and frequent favours were the +cause (as often is the case at Court) of much envy, and, +after the envy, of endless persecution, since Bramante, +the architect, who was much loved by the Pope, made him +change his mind as to the monument by telling him, as is +said by the vulgar, that it is unlucky to build one's tomb +in one's lifetime. Fear as well as envy stimulated +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page32">[pg 32]</span><a name="Pg32" id="Pg32" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Bramante, for the judgment of Michael Angelo had +exposed many of his errors. Bramante, as every one +knows, was given to all kinds of pleasures and a great +spendthrift. The pension allotted to him by the Pope, +however rich it might be, was not enough for him; he +tried to make money out of the works, building the walls +of bad materials, which, notwithstanding their greatness +and width, are not very firm or solid. As is manifest to +every one in the works of Saint Peter's, the Corridore di +Belvedere, the Convents di San Pietro ad Vincula, and +other fabrics built by him, it has been necessary to put +new foundations and to strengthen all of them by props +and buttresses, like buildings about to fall. Now because +he had no doubt that Michael Angelo knew these errors +of his, he always sought to remove him from Rome, or, +at least, to deprive him of the favour of the Pope, and of +the glory and usefulness that he might have acquired by +his industry. He succeeded in the matter of the tomb. +There is no doubt that if he had been allowed to finish it, +according to his first design,<a id="noteref_36" name="noteref_36" href="#note_36"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">36</span></span></a> having so large a field in +which to show his worth, no other artist, however celebrated +(be it said without envy), could have wrested from +him the high place he would have held. Those parts +which he did finish show what the rest would have been +like. The two slaves were done for this work: those who +have seen them declare that no such worthy statues were +ever carved.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XXVI. And to give some idea of it, I say briefly that +this tomb was to have had four faces, two of eighteen +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page33">[pg 33]</span><a name="Pg33" id="Pg33" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>braccia, that served for the flanks, so that it was to be a +square and a half in plan. All round about the outside +were niches for statues, and between niche and niche +terminal figures; to these were bound other statues, like +prisoners, upon certain square plinths, rising from the +ground and projecting from the monument. They represented +the liberal arts, as Painting, Sculpture, and +Architecture, each with her symbol so that they could +easily be recognised; denoting by this that, like Pope +Julius, all the virtues were the prisoners of Death, because +they would never find such favour and nourishment as he +gave them. Above these ran the cornice that tied all the +work together. On its plane were four great statues; one of +these, the Moses, may be seen in San Piero and Vincula. It +shall be spoken of in its proper place. So the work +mounted upward until it ended in a plane. Upon it were +two angels who supported an arc; one appeared to be +smiling as though he rejoiced that the soul of the Pope +had been received amongst the blessed spirits, the other +wept, as if sad that the world had been deprived of such a +man. Above one end was the entrance to the sepulchre in +a small chamber, built like a temple; in the middle was a +marble sarcophagus, where the body of the Pope was to +be buried; everything worked out with marvellous art. +Briefly, more than forty statues went to the whole work, +not counting the subjects in mezzo rilievo to be cast in +bronze, all appropriate in their stories and proclaiming +the acts of this great Pontiff.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XXVII. Having seen this design the Pope sent Michael +Angelo to Saint Peter's to decide where it might most +conveniently be erected. The church was in the form of +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page34">[pg 34]</span><a name="Pg34" id="Pg34" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>a cross. At the head Pope Nicolas V. had begun to rebuild +the tribune; the walls were already three braccia above +the ground when he died. It seemed to Michael Angelo +that this place was very suitable. When he returned to the +Pope he told him what he thought, and added, that if it +seemed good to his Holiness, it would be necessary to go +on with the building and roof it in. The Pope asked him, +"<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">What would be the cost of this?</span></span>" Michael Angelo +replied, "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">One hundred thousand scudi.</span></span>" "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Let it be two +hundred thousand</span></span>," said Julius. And sending San Gallo, +the architect, and Bramante to see the place, by their +suggestion it came into the mind of the Pope to rebuild +the church altogether. He directed them to prepare +designs, and that of Bramante was approved, as being +more graceful and better understood than the others. +Thus, Michael Angelo was the cause, both that those +parts of the building already begun were completed, +which otherwise might have remained as they were to +this day, and that it came into the mind of the Pope +to rebuild the rest of the church on a more magnificent +scale.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XXVIII. Returning to our story, Michael Angelo became +acquainted with the change in the wishes of Julius +in the following manner: The Pope instructed Michael +Angelo that if he needed money he was to come direct to +him and not to others, so that he might not have to go +from one to another for it. It happened one day that the +rest of the marbles that had been left at Carrara arrived +at the Ripa; Michael Angelo had them disembarked and +carried to Saint Peter's, and desiring at once to pay the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page35">[pg 35]</span><a name="Pg35" id="Pg35" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>freight, the landing, and the porterage, he went to ask the +Pope for money, but found access to the palace more +difficult than usual, and his Holiness occupied. So he +returned home, and not to incommode the poor men who +had earned their wages he paid them all out of his own +pocket, thinking that his money would be returned by the +Pope at a more convenient season. One morning he +returned and entered the ante-chamber for an audience. +A groom came up to him and said: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Pardon me, I have +been ordered not to admit you</span></span>." A bishop was present, +and hearing the words of the man, cried out: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">You cannot +know who this man is?</span></span>" "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">I know him very well</span></span>," +replied the groom, "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">but I am obliged to do what I am +bid by my masters without further question</span></span>." Michael +Angelo, who had never before been kept waiting or had +the door barred against him, seeing himself so turned off +and scorned, was angered and replied: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">You may tell +the Pope that, henceforward, if he wants me he must look +for me elsewhere</span></span>." So he returned to his house and instructed +his two servants to sell all his furniture, and when +they got the money to follow him to Florence. He himself +took horse and at the second hour of the night reached +Poggibonsi, a castle in the Florentine territory, eighteen +or twenty miles from the city, where, as in a safe place, he +rested.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XXIX. A little later five messengers from Pope Julius +arrived with orders to bring Michael Angelo back wherever +they might find him. But overtaking him in a place +where they were unable to offer him any violence, +Michael Angelo threatening them with death if they +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page36">[pg 36]</span><a name="Pg36" id="Pg36" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>dare lay hands on him, they turned to entreaties; then +not succeeding, they obtained from him the concession +that at least he would reply to the letter from the +Pope which they had given to him, and that he should +particularly write that they had only overtaken him +in Florence that the Pope might understand that they +were unable to bring him back against his will. The +letter of the Pope was of this tenour: "At sight of +this return immediately to Rome, under pain of my +displeasure." Michael Angelo replied briefly: "That he +was never going to return, and that his good and faithful +service had not deserved this change, to be hunted away +from his presence like a rogue; and as his Holiness did +not wish to have anything more to do with the tomb, he +was free and did not wish to bind himself again." So +dating the letter as has been said he let the messengers +go, he himself went on to Florence, where, during the +three months he remained there, three Briefs were sent to +the Signoria, full of menaces, demanding that he should be +sent back either by fair means or force.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XXX. Pier Soderini, who was then Gonfaloniere of +the Republic for life, having formerly let him go to Rome +much against his will, wished him to work for him by +painting in the Sala del Consiglio. On receipt of the first +Brief he did not oblige Michael Angelo to return, hoping +that the anger of the Pope would abate; but when a +second and a third arrived, he called Michael Angelo to +him and said: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">You have braved the Pope as the King +of France would not have done, therefore prayer is unavailing. +We do not wish to go to war with him on your +</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page37">[pg 37]</span><a name="Pg37" id="Pg37" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-style: italic">account and risk the State, so prepare yourself to return</span></span>."<a id="noteref_37" name="noteref_37" href="#note_37"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">37</span></span></a> +Michael Angelo, seeing it had come to this, and fearing +the wrath of the Pope, thought of going to the Levant, +principally because he had been sought after by the Turk +with rich promises, through the agency of certain Franciscan +Friars, to throw a bridge from Constantinople to +Pera, and for other works. But the Gonfaloniere, hearing +of this, sent for him and dissuaded him, saying: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">That it +was better to die with the Pope than to live with the Turk; +nevertheless, there was nothing to fear, for the Pope was +kind, and sent for him because he loved him well, not +because he wished him harm; and if he was still afraid, the +Signoria would send him as ambassador, because violence +was not offered to public persons without it being offered +to those who sent them.</span></span>" By reason of these and other +arguments Michael Angelo prepared to return.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XXXI. Whilst he was still in Florence two things +happened. One was that he finished the marvellous +cartoon he had begun for the Sala del Consiglio, which +represented the war between Florence and Pisa, and the +many and various events that occurred in it, which cartoon +of consummate art was a light to all those who +afterwards took pencil in hand. I cannot tell what evil +fortune happened to it afterwards, it was left by Michael +Angelo in the Sala del Papa (a place so called in Florence) +at Santa Maria Novella. Fragments of it can be seen in +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page38">[pg 38]</span><a name="Pg38" id="Pg38" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>the various places, preserved with greatest care like something +sacred.<a id="noteref_38" name="noteref_38" href="#note_38"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">38</span></span></a> The other thing was, that Pope Julius had +taken Bologna and had gone there; he was delighted +with the acquisition, and this gave courage to Michael +Angelo to appear before him more hopefully.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc16" id="toc16"></a><a name="pdf17" id="pdf17"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page39">[pg 39]</span><a name="Pg39" id="Pg39" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">CHAPTER V</span></h2> + +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.40em; margin-top: 2.40em"><span style="font-size: 120%">THE COLOSSAL BRONZE FOR THE FAÇADE OF +SAN PETRONIO</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XXXII. So he arrived at Bologna one morning, and +going to San Petronio to hear mass,<a id="noteref_39" name="noteref_39" href="#note_39"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">39</span></span></a> behold, the grooms +of the Pope, who recognised him and conducted him to +his Holiness, who was at table in the Palazzo de' Sedici. +When he saw Michael Angelo in his presence, Julius, with +an angry look, said to him, "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">You ought to have come to +us, and you have waited for us to come to you</span></span>." Meaning +to say, that his Holiness being come to Bologna, a place +much nearer to Florence than Rome is, it was as if he (the +Pope) had come to him. Michael Angelo with a loud +voice and on his knees craved pardon, pleading that he +had not erred maliciously but through indignation, for he +could not bear to be hunted away as he had been. The +Pope kept his head lowered and replied nothing, to all +appearances much troubled, when a certain monsignore, +sent by the Cardinal Soderini to excuse and intercede for +Michael Angelo, broke in, saying: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Your Holiness, do +not remember his fault, for he has erred through +ignorance; these painters in things outside their art are +all like this.</span></span>" The Pope indignantly replied: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">You +</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page40">[pg 40]</span><a name="Pg40" id="Pg40" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-style: italic">abuse him, whilst we say nothing; you are the ignorant +one, and he is not the culprit; take yourself off in an evil +hour.</span></span>" But as he was not going, he was, as Michael +Angelo used to tell, hustled out of the room with blows +by the servants of the Pope. Thus the Pope having spent +his fury on the bishop, called Michael Angelo closer to +him, and pardoned him, ordering him not to leave Bologna +until another commission had been given to him. Nor +was he long before he sent for him and said that he +wished Michael Angelo to make a great portrait statue of +him in bronze, which he wished to place on the front of +the Church of San Petronio. And he left a thousand +ducats in the bank of Messer Antommaria da Lignano to +carry out the work when he departed for Rome. It is true +that before he left Michael Angelo had already modelled +it in clay, but he was doubtful as to what the statue +should hold in the left hand, the right was raised as if +giving a benediction. He asked the Pope, who had come +to see the statue, if it pleased him that he should be +made holding a book. "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">What! a book?</span></span>" he replied, "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">a +sword! As for me, I am no scholar.</span></span>" And jesting about +the right hand, which was in vigorous action, he said, +smiling the while, to Michael Angelo, "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Does this statue of +yours give a blessing or a curse?</span></span>" Michael Angelo replied +to him: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">It threatens this people, Holy Father, lest they be +foolish.</span></span>" But, as I have said, Pope Julius returned to +Rome and Michael Angelo remained behind at Bologna, +and spent sixteen months in completing the statue and +erecting it where the Pope had directed. Afterwards, on +the return of the Bentivogli to Bologna, this statue was +thrown to earth in the fury of the populace and destroyed. +Its height was more than three times that of life.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc18" id="toc18"></a><a name="pdf19" id="pdf19"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page41">[pg 41]</span><a name="Pg41" id="Pg41" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">CHAPTER VI</span></h2> + +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.40em; margin-top: 2.40em"><span style="font-size: 120%">THE VAULT OF THE SISTINE CHAPEL</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XXXIII. After he had finished this work he went to +Rome, where Pope Julius wished to employ him, keeping +still to his purpose of not going on with his tomb. It was +put into his head by Bramante and other rivals of Michael +Angelo that he should make him paint the vault of the +chapel of Sixtus the Fourth, in the Vatican, making him +believe that he would do wonders. This was done +maliciously, to distract the Pope from works of sculpture; +and because they thought it was certain, either, that by his +not accepting such a commission, he would stir up the +Pope's anger against himself, or that by accepting it he +would come out of it very much inferior to Raffaello da +Urbino, whom they heaped with favours on account of +their hatred for Michael Angelo, judging that his principal +art was sculpture, as in truth it was. Michael Angelo, +who as yet had never used colours and knew the painting +of the vault to be a very difficult undertaking, tried with +all his power to get out of it, proposing Raffaello and +excusing himself, in that it was not his art and that he +would not succeed, refusing so many demands that the +Pope was almost in a passion. But seeing his obstinacy, +Michael Angelo set himself to do the work, which to-day +is seen in the palace of the Pope, and is the admiration and +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page42">[pg 42]</span><a name="Pg42" id="Pg42" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>wonder of the world; it brought him so much fame that it +lifted him above all envy. I will give some brief account of +this work.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XXXIV. The shape of this ceiling is what is commonly +called a barrel vaulting, resting on lunettes, six to the +length and two to the width of the building, so that the +whole formed two squares and a half. In this space +Michael Angelo has depicted, firstly, the creation of the +world, and then almost the whole of the Old Testament. +He has divided the work after this fashion: Beginning +at the brackets, where the horns of the lunettes rest, up to +almost a third of the arch of the vault, the walls appear +to continue flat, running up to that height with certain +pilasters and plinths imitating marble, which project into +the open like a balustrade over an additional storey, with +corbels below, and with other little pilasters above the +same storey, where sit the prophets and sybils. The +first pilasters grow from the arches of the lunettes, placing +the pedestals in the middle, leaving, however, the greater +part of the arch of the lunette—that is to say, the space +they contain between them. Above the said plinths are +painted some little naked children in various poses, who, +in guise of terminals, support a cornice, which binds the +whole work together, leaving in the middle of the vault +from end to end, as it were, the open sky. This opening +is divided into nine spaces; for from the cornices over the +pilasters spring certain arches with cornices, which traverse +the highest part of the vault, and join the cornice on the +opposite side of the chapel, leaving from arch to arch nine +openings, large and small. In the smaller spaces are two +fillets, painted like marble that cross the opening in such +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page43">[pg 43]</span><a name="Pg43" id="Pg43" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>a way that in the middle rest the two parts and one of +the bands, where medallions are placed, as shall be told in due +course; and this has been done to avoid monotony, which is +born of sameness. Now, at the head of the chapel, in the +first opening, which is one of the smaller ones, is seen +how the Omnipotent God in the heavens by the movement +of His arms divides light from darkness. In the second +space is how He created the two great lights. The +Creator is seen with arms extended: with the right He +lights the sun, and with the left the moon. With Him are +child-angels; one on the left hides his face against the +bosom of his Creator, as though shielding himself from +the harmful light of the moon. In the same space on the +left God is seen turning to create the trees and plants of +the earth, painted with such art that wherever you turn +He appears to turn away also, showing the whole of the +back down to the soles of His feet—a thing most beautiful, +and which shows what may be done by foreshortening. +In the third space the great God appears in the heavens, +again with a company of angels, looking upon the waters +and commanding them to bring forth all those forms of +life nourished in that element, just as in the second He +commands the earth. In the fourth is the creation of +Man. God is seen with arm and hand stretched forth as +if giving His commandments to Adam, what to do and +what not to do; with His other arm He draws His angels +about Him. In the fifth is how He drew woman from +the side of Adam. She comes forth with her hands joined, +raising them in prayer towards God, bending with gracious +mien and offering thanks as He blesses her. In the sixth +is how the Devil tempted man. From the middle upwards +the wicked one is of human form, and the rest of him like +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page44">[pg 44]</span><a name="Pg44" id="Pg44" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>unto a serpent, his legs transformed into tails winding +around a tree. He seems to reason with the man and +persuade him to act contrary to the commands of his +Creator, and he offers the forbidden apple to the woman. +On the other side of the space the two are seen driven +forth by the angel, terrified and weeping, flying from the +face of God. In the seventh is the sacrifice of Abel and +of Cain;<a id="noteref_40" name="noteref_40" href="#note_40"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">40</span></span></a> the one grateful to and accepted by God, the +other hateful and refused. In the eighth is the Deluge, +when the ark of Noah is seen in the distance in the midst +of the waters; some men attempt to cling to it for safety. +Nearer, in the same abyss of waters, is a boat laden with +many people, which, both by the excessive weight she has +to carry and by the many and tumultuous lashings of the +waves, loses her sail, and, deprived of every aid and +human control, she is already filling with water and going +to the bottom. It is an admirable thing to see the human +race so wretchedly perishing in the waves. Likewise, +nearer to the eye, there still appears above the waters the +summit of a mountain, like unto an island, on which, +fleeing from the rising waters, collect a multitude of men +and women, who exhibit different expressions, but all +wretched and all terrified, dragging themselves beneath a +curtain stretched over a tree to shelter them from the +unusual rains; and above them is represented with great +art the anger of God, which overwhelms them with water, +with lightnings, and with thunderbolts. There is also +another mountain-top on the right,<a id="noteref_41" name="noteref_41" href="#note_41"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">41</span></span></a> much nearer the eye, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page45">[pg 45]</span><a name="Pg45" id="Pg45" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>and a multitude labouring under the same disasters, of +which it would be long to write all the details; it shall +suffice me to say that they are all very natural and +tremendous, just as one would imagine them in such a +convulsion. In the ninth, which is the last, is the story +of Noah when he was drunken with wine, lying on the +ground, his shame derided by his son Ham and covered by +Shem and Japhet. Under the before-mentioned cornice +which finishes the walls, and above the brackets where the +lunettes rest, between pilaster and pilaster, sit twelve large +figures—prophets and sybils—all truly wonderful, as much +for their grace as for the decoration and design of their +draperies. But admirable above all the others is the +prophet Jonah, placed at the head of the vault, because +contrary to the form of this part of the ceiling, by +force of light and shade, the torso, which is foreshortened +so that it goes back away into the roof, is on the part of +the arch nearest the eye, and the feet and legs which, as +it were, project within the walls, are on the part more +distant. A stupendous performance, which shows what +marvellous power was in this man of turning lines in +foreshortening and perspective. Now in the spaces that +are below the lunettes, as well as in those above, which +have a triangular shape, are painted all the genealogy, +or, I should say, all the ancestors of the Saviour, except +the triangles at the corners, which come together, and so, +two make up one of double the area. In one then of +these, above the wall of the Last Judgment on the right +hand,<a id="noteref_42" name="noteref_42" href="#note_42"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">42</span></span></a> is seen how Aman, by command of King Ahasuerus, +was hung upon a cross; and this was because, in his pride +and arrogance, he wished to hang Mordecai, the uncle +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page46">[pg 46]</span><a name="Pg46" id="Pg46" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Queen Ester, for not honouring him with a reverence as he +passed by. In another corner is the story of the bronze +serpent, lifted by Moses on a staff, in which the children of +Israel, wounded and ill-treated by lively little serpents, +are healed by looking up. Here Michael Angelo has +shown admirable force in those figures that are struggling +to free themselves from the coils of the serpents. In the +third corner, at the lower end of the chapel, is the +vengeance wreaked upon Holofernes by Judith, and in +the fourth that of David over Goliath. And these are +briefly all the histories.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XXXV. But no less marvellous is that part which does +not relate to the histories at all, that is to say, certain +nudes who sit upon plinths above the before-mentioned +cornice, one on either side holding up the medallions, which, +as has been said, appear to be of metal, on which, in the +style of reverses, are designed several stories, all however +appropriate to their principal histories. By the beauty of +the divisions, by the variety of the poses, and by the balance +of the proportionate parts, in all of them Michael Angelo +exhibited the highest art. But to tell the particulars of +these things would be an infinite labour, a book to them +alone would not be enough; therefore I pass over them +briefly, wishing rather to give a little light upon the whole +than to detail the parts.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XXXVI. In the meanwhile he did not lack troubles; +for, having finished the picture of the Deluge, the work +began to grow mouldy,<a id="noteref_43" name="noteref_43" href="#note_43"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">43</span></span></a> so much so that the figures could +hardly be distinguished. Michael Angelo, thinking that +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page47">[pg 47]</span><a name="Pg47" id="Pg47" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>this excuse would suffice to enable him to shake off his +burden, went to the Pope and said to him: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">I have already +told your Holiness that this is not my art; all that I have +done is spoiled; if you do not believe it send and see.</span></span>" The +Pope sent Il San Gallo, who, when he examined the fresco, +saw that the plaster had been applied too wet, and the +dampness running down caused this effect; and informing +Michael Angelo of this he made him proceed, and the +excuse was unavailing.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XXXVII. Whilst he was painting Pope Julius went +to see the work many times, ascending the scaffolding by a +ladder, Michael Angelo giving him his hand to assist him +on to the highest platform. And, like one who was of a +vehement nature, and impatient of delay, when but one +half of the work was done, the part from the door to the +middle of the vault,<a id="noteref_44" name="noteref_44" href="#note_44"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">44</span></span></a> he insisted upon having it uncovered, +although it was still incomplete and had not received the +finishing touches. Michael Angelo's fame, and the expectation +they had of him, drew the whole of Rome to the +chapel, where the Pope also rushed, even before the dust +raised by the taking down the scaffolding had settled.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XXXVIII. After this, Raphael, having seen this new +and marvellous manner as one who excelled in imitating, +tried by the aid of Bramante to get the rest of the chapel +to paint. Michael Angelo was much troubled, came +before the Pope, and bitterly complained of the injury +Bramante was doing him; and in his presence grieved over +it with the Pope, discovering to him all the persecution +he had suffered from him, and afterwards unfolded to him +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page48">[pg 48]</span><a name="Pg48" id="Pg48" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>many of Bramante's shortcomings, principally that in +pulling down the old church of Saint Peter's he threw to +earth those marvellous columns that were therein, not +respecting them or caring whether they were broken to +pieces or not, when he might have lowered them gently and +preserved them whole; explaining how it was an easy thing +to pile brick on brick, but to make such a column was most +difficult, and many other things that it was most necessary +to relate; so that the Pope, hearing of all these sad doings, +willed that Michael Angelo should continue the work, +showing him more favour than ever. He finished all this +work in twenty months<a id="noteref_45" name="noteref_45" href="#note_45"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">45</span></span></a> without assistance,<a id="noteref_46" name="noteref_46" href="#note_46"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">46</span></span></a> not even +any one to grind the colours. It is true that I have heard +him say that the work is not finished as he would have +wished, as he was prevented by the hurry of the Pope, +who demanded of him one day when he would finish the +chapel. Michael Angelo said: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">When I can</span></span>." The +Pope, angered, added: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Do you want me to have you +thrown down off this scaffolding?</span></span>" Michael Angelo, hearing +this, said to himself: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Nay, you shall not have me +thrown down</span></span>," and as soon as the Pope had gone away he +had the scaffolding taken down and uncovered his work +upon All Saints Day. It was seen with great satisfaction +by the Pope (who that very day visited the chapel), and all +Rome crowded to admire it. It lacked the retouches "a +secco" of ultramarine and of gold in certain places, which +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page49">[pg 49]</span><a name="Pg49" id="Pg49" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>would have made it appear more rich. Julius, his fervour +having abated, wished that Michael Angelo should supply +them; but he considering the business it would be to reerect +the scaffolding, replied that there was nothing important +wanting. "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">It should be touched with gold</span></span>," replied the +Pope. Michael Angelo said to him familiarly, as he had +a way of doing with his Holiness: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">I do not see that men +wear gold.</span></span>" The Pope again said: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">It will seem poor</span></span>." +"<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Those who are painted here were poor also</span></span>," Michael +Angelo replied. This he threw out in jest; but so the +vault has remained. Michael Angelo received for this +work and all his expenses three thousand ducats, of which +I have heard him say he spent in colours about twenty or +twenty-five.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc20" id="toc20"></a><a name="pdf21" id="pdf21"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page50">[pg 50]</span><a name="Pg50" id="Pg50" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">CHAPTER VII</span></h2> + +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.40em; margin-top: 2.40em"><span style="font-size: 120%">THE RISEN CHRIST OF THE MINERVA</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XXXIX. When he had finished this work Michael +Angelo, because he had painted so long a time with his +eyes turned upwards towards the vault, could hardly see +anything when looking down, so that when he had to read +a letter or look at a minute object it was necessary for +him to hold it above his head. Nevertheless, little by +little, he became able to again read looking down. By +this we are able to judge with how much attention and +assiduity he had carried out his work. Many other +things happened to him during the life of Pope Julius, +who loved him from his heart, having a more jealous care +for him than for any one else he had about him, as one +may see clearly by what we have already written. Indeed, +one day fearing that Michael Angelo was angry, he +immediately sent to pacify him. It happened in this +wise. Michael Angelo wanting to go to Florence for +Saint John's Day asked the Pope for money; and he +demanded when his chapel would be finished. Michael +Angelo, as his custom was, replied, "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">When I can</span></span>." The +Pope, who was of a hasty nature, struck him with a stick +that he had in his hand, saying: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">When I can, indeed; +when I can!</span></span>" After he got home Michael Angelo was +preparing, without more ado, to go to Florence, when +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page51">[pg 51]</span><a name="Pg51" id="Pg51" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Accursio arrived, a highly favoured young man, sent by +the Pope, and brought him five hundred ducats and +pacified him as best he could, making the Pope's excuses. +Michael Angelo accepted the apology and went away to +Florence. So that it seems as if Julius cared more than +for anything else to keep this man for himself; nor was +he contented with his services during his life only, but +required them after his death; wherefore coming to die +he commanded that the Tomb which Michael Angelo had +formerly begun should be finished for him, giving this +charge to the old Cardinal Santi Quattro and the Cardinal +Aginense, his nephew: they, however, had new designs +prepared, the first appearing to them too large. So +Michael Angelo again became involved in the Tragedy of +the Tomb, which had no better success than at first; on +the contrary much worse, it brought him infinite vexations, +troubles, and labours; and, what is worse, by the +malice of certain men, shame, from which he was hardly +able to clear himself for many years. Michael Angelo then +began all over again and set to work. He brought many +masters from Florence, and Bernardo Bini, who was +trustee, provided the money as he needed it. But it had +not got on very far when he was interrupted, much to his +disgust, for it came into the head of the Pope Leo, who had +succeeded Julius, to ornament the façade of San Lorenzo, +in Florence, with sculpture and marble work. This was the +church built by the great Cosimo de' Medici; and, except +for the façade mentioned above, was all completely +finished. This part, then, Pope Leo resolved to supply. +He thought of employing Michael Angelo, and sending +for him he made him prepare a design, and finally on +that account wished him to go to Florence and take upon +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page52">[pg 52]</span><a name="Pg52" id="Pg52" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>himself all this charge. Michael Angelo, who was working +with love and diligence at the tomb of Julius, made all +the resistance that he could, saying that he was bound to +Cardinal Santi Quattro and to Aginense, and could not +fail them. But the Pope, who was determined in this +matter, replied: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Leave me to deal with them; I will +content them.</span></span>" So he sent for both of them and made +them release Michael Angelo, much to the sorrow both of +himself and the Cardinals, especially of Aginense, nephew, +as has been said, of Pope Julius, for whom, however, +Pope Leo promised that Michael Angelo should work in +Florence, and that he would not hinder him. In this +fashion, weeping, Michael Angelo left the tomb and +betook himself to Florence. As soon as he arrived he +put everything in order for building the façade, he himself +went to Carrara to transport marbles, not only for the +façade but also for the tomb, relying upon the promise +of the Pope that he would be able to go on with it. In +the meantime the Pope was informed that in the mountains +of Pietrasanta, in the Florentine territory, there were +marbles as good and beautiful as at Carrara. When this +was discussed with Michael Angelo, he, as a friend of the +Marchese Alberigo, and having come to an understanding +with him about the marbles, preferred rather to quarry at +Carrara than at these new places in the State of Florence. +The Pope wrote to Michael Angelo and commanded him +to go to Pietrasanta and see if it was as he heard from +Florence. He went there and found the marble very +unmanageable and unsuitable;<a id="noteref_47" name="noteref_47" href="#note_47"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">47</span></span></a> and even if it had been +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page53">[pg 53]</span><a name="Pg53" id="Pg53" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>suitable, it would be a difficult and very expensive business +to bring it down to the sea; for it would require a new +road to be constructed for several miles over the mountains +with pickaxes, and across the plains, which were very +marshy, on piles. Michael Angelo wrote all this to the +Pope; but he rather believed those who had written to +him from Florence, and ordered him to make the road. +So to carry out the will of the Pope he constructed this +road,<a id="noteref_48" name="noteref_48" href="#note_48"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">48</span></span></a> and by it carried a vast quantity of marble to the +sea coast, amongst them five columns of the right size; +one of them is to be seen on the Piazza of San Lorenzo, +brought by him to Florence;<a id="noteref_49" name="noteref_49" href="#note_49"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">49</span></span></a> the other four, because the +Pope had changed his mind and turned his thoughts elsewhere, +are still lying on the sea shore. But the Marchese +di Carrara, thinking that Michael Angelo, as a citizen of +Florence, might have been the originator of the quarrying +at Pietrasanta, became his enemy; nor would he allow +him to return to Carrara afterwards even for marble that +he had already quarried, which was a great loss to +Michael Angelo.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc22" id="toc22"></a><a name="pdf23" id="pdf23"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page54">[pg 54]</span><a name="Pg54" id="Pg54" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">CHAPTER VIII</span></h2> + +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.40em; margin-top: 2.40em"><span style="font-size: 120%">THE SACRISTY OF SAN LORENZO</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XL. Now having returned to Florence, and finding, as +was said before, that the fervour of Pope Leo was all +spent, Michael Angelo, grieving, remained there doing +nothing for a long while, having, first in one thing and +then in another, thrown away much of his time, to his +great annoyance. Nevertheless, with certain blocks of +marble that he had placed in his own house, he proceeded +with the work of the Tomb. But Leo departing this life, +Adrian was created Pope, and the work was interrupted +again, for they charged Michael Angelo with having +received from Julius for this work quite sixteen thousand +scudi, and that he did not trouble himself to get on with +it, but stayed at Florence for his own pleasure. All these +accusations called for his presence in Rome; but the +Cardinal de' Medici, who afterwards became Pope +Clement VII., and who then had the government of +Florence in his hand, did not wish him to go; and to +keep him employed, and to have an excuse, he made him +begin the Medici Library in San Lorenzo, and at the same +time the sacristy with the tombs of his ancestors, promising +to satisfy the Pope for him, and arrange matters. +Then Adrian living only a few months and Clement +succeeding him in the Papacy, nothing more was said +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page55">[pg 55]</span><a name="Pg55" id="Pg55" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>about the Tomb of Julius for some time. But Michael +Angelo was advised that the Duke of Urbino, Francesco +Maria, nephew of Pope Julius of happy memory, complained +greatly of him, and menaced him with vengeance +if he did not quickly come to Rome. Michael Angelo +conferred with Pope Clement about the affair, and he +counselled him to call the agents of the Duke and prepare +an account with them of all that he had received from +Julius and all the work he had done for him, knowing that +if Michael Angelo's work were properly estimated he would +turn out to be the creditor rather than the debtor. +Michael Angelo remained in Rome about this against +his will; and having arranged affairs returned to Florence, +principally because he anticipated the ruin that a little +while afterwards came upon Rome.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XLI. In the meantime the House of Medici was driven +out of Florence by the opposing faction, because they had +taken more authority to themselves than could be suffered +in a free city that ruled herself by her Republic. As the +Signoria did not expect that the Pope would do anything +to forego his family's authority they expected certain war, +and turned their minds to the fortifications of their city, +and appointed Michael Angelo Commissary-General for +that work. He then, accepting this preferment, besides +many other preparations carried out by him on every side +of the city, encircled with strong fortifications the hill of +San Miniato, that stands above the city and overlooks the +surrounding plain. If the enemy took this hill nothing +could prevent him becoming master of the city also. This +fort was judged to be the saving of the country, and very +dangerous to the enemy; being, as I have said, of high +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page56">[pg 56]</span><a name="Pg56" id="Pg56" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>elevation, it menaced the hosts of their antagonists, +especially from the bell-tower of the church, where two +pieces of artillery were placed, which continually did great +damage to the besiegers. Michael Angelo, notwithstanding +that he had made provision beforehand for whatever +might occur, posted himself upon the hill. After about +six months the soldiers began to grumble amongst themselves +of I know not what treachery; Michael Angelo +partly knowing about this himself, and partly by the +warnings of certain captains, his friends, betook himself +to the Signoria and discovered to them what he had heard +and seen, showing them in what danger the city stood, +saying that there was yet time to provide against the +danger, if they would. But instead of thanking him they +abused him, and reproached him with being a timid man +and too suspicious. He who replied to him thus had +better have opened his ears to him, for the House of +Medici entered into Florence and his head was cut off; +whereas, if he had listened, he might have been yet alive.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XLII. When Michael Angelo saw how little his word +was considered, and how the ruin of the city was certain, by +the authority he had he caused a gate to be opened, and went +out with two of his people, and betook himself to Venice. +And certainly this notion of a treachery was no fable; but +he who arranged it judged that it would pass over with +less disgrace if it was not discovered just then, as time +would achieve the same result by his merely failing in his +duty and hindering others who wished to do theirs. The +departure of Michael Angelo was the occasion of many +rumours, and he fell into great disgrace with the governors. +All the same, he was recalled with many prayers, with +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page57">[pg 57]</span><a name="Pg57" id="Pg57" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>appeals to his patriotism, and by those who urged that he +must not abandon the responsibilities that he had taken +upon himself, and that the matter was not at such an +extremity as he had been given to understand, and many +other things. Persuaded by all this, and by the authority +of the personages who wrote to him, but chiefly by his love +for his country, after he had received a safe conduct for +ten days before the day of his arrival in Florence, he +returned, not without danger to his life.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XLIII. Again in Florence the first thing he did was +to protect the bell-tower of San Miniato, which was all +broken by the continual cannonading of the enemy, and +had become very dangerous to those within. The method +of defence was in this wise: a large number of mattresses, +well filled with wool, were slung with stout cords from the +top of the tower to the bottom, covering parts likely to +be hit. And as the cornice projected considerably, the +mattresses hung out from the main wall of the bell-tower +more than six hands, so that the cannon-balls of the +enemy, partly on account of the distance from which they +were fired, and partly by the opposition of these mattresses, +did little or no damage, not even injuring the mattresses +themselves, because they were so yielding. Thus he held +that tower all the time of the siege, which lasted a year, +without its suffering any injury, and rejoicing greatly in +the salvation of the land and the damage he did to the +enemy.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XLIV. But afterwards the enemy entered the city by +treachery, and many of the citizens were taken and killed. +The court sent to the house of Michael Angelo to seize +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page58">[pg 58]</span><a name="Pg58" id="Pg58" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>him; all the rooms and the chests were searched by them, +even to the chimney and closet; but Michael Angelo, +afraid of what might follow, had taken refuge in the house +of a great friend. Here he remained in hiding many days, +no one knowing that he was there except the friend who +saved him. When the fury was over, Pope Clement wrote +to Florence that Michael Angelo must be sought out, and +ordered that, when found, he should be set at liberty if he +would go on with the work of the Medici tombs formerly +begun, and that he must be used courteously. Michael +Angelo, hearing this, came out; and, although it was some +fifteen years since he had touched the chisel, yet he set +himself so earnestly to his task that in a few months he +carved all the statues now to be seen in the sacristy of San +Lorenzo, urged on more by fear than by love.<a id="noteref_50" name="noteref_50" href="#note_50"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">50</span></span></a> It is true +that none of these statues have received their last touches; +nevertheless, they are carried so far that the excellence of +the workmanship can be very well seen; nor does the lack +of finish impair the perfection and the beauty of the +work.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XLV. The statues are four, placed in a sacristy erected +for this purpose on the left of the church opposite the old +sacristy; and although each figure balances the other in +design and general shape, nevertheless, they are quite +different in form, idea, and action. The sarcophagi are placed +against the side walls, and above their lids recline two +figures, larger than life—that is to say, a man and a woman, +signifying Day and Night; and by the two of them Time, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page59">[pg 59]</span><a name="Pg59" id="Pg59" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>that consumes all things. And in order that his idea +might be better understood, he gave to the Night, who was +made in the form of a woman of a marvellous beauty, an +owl and other symbols suitable to her; similarly to the Day, +his signs; and for the signification of Time he intended to +carve a rat, because this little animal gnaws and consumes, +just as Time devours, all things. He left a piece of marble +on the work for it, which he did not carve, as he was +afterwards prevented. There were besides other statues, +which represented those for whom the tombs were erected. +All, in conclusion, were more divine than human; but +above all, the Madonna, with her little child straddling +across her thigh, of this I judge it better to be silent than +to say but little, and so I pass it by.<a id="noteref_51" name="noteref_51" href="#note_51"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">51</span></span></a> We owe thanks to +Pope Clement for these masterpieces; and if he had done +no other praiseworthy act in his life (but, of course, he did +many), this one was enough to cancel all his faults, for +through him the world possesses these noble statues. And +much more we owe him in that he did not fail to respect +the virtue of this man when Florence fell, just as in olden +times Marcellus respected the virtue of Archimedes when +he entered Syracuse, although in that case it was of no +effect; in this case, thanks be to God, it availed much.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XLVI. For all that Michael Angelo lived in great fear, +because he was greatly disliked by the Duke Alessandro, a +young man, as every one knows, very fierce and vindictive. +There is no doubt that, if it had not been for the fear of +the Pope, he would have had him put away long ago; the +more so, as this Duke of Florence, when erecting those +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page60">[pg 60]</span><a name="Pg60" id="Pg60" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>fortresses of his, sent for Michael Angelo, by Signor +Alessandro Vitelli, to ride out with him and indicate where +they would most usefully be placed, and he would not, +replying that he had received no such commission from +Pope Clement. The Duke was much angered; so that for +this reason, as well as for the old ill-will he bore him, and +on account of the nature of the Duke, Michael Angelo had +good reason to fear him. And truly it was a blessing of God +that he was not in Florence at the time of the death of +Clement; he was called to Rome by the Pontiff before he had +quite finished the tombs at San Lorenzo. He was received +gladly. Clement respected this man like one sacred, and +talked with him familiarly, both on grave and trivial +subjects, as he would have done with his equals. He +sought to relieve him of the burden of the Tomb of Julius, +so that he might settle in Florence permanently, not only +to finish the works already begun, but that he might +execute others no less worthy.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XLVII. But before I say any more about this it behoves +me to write of another fact concerning Michael Angelo, +which I have inadvertently omitted. After the violent +departure of the Medici from Florence, the Signoria fearing, +as I have said above, the coming war, and intending +to fortify their city, sent for Michael Angelo, as they knew +him to be a man of consummate ingenuity and most active +in whatever he undertook; nevertheless, by the advice of +certain citizens who favoured the cause of the Medici and +wished covertly to hinder or delay the fortification of the +city, they sent him to Ferrara, under pretext that he should +study the system by which Duke Alfonso had armed and +fortified his city, knowing that his Excellency was most +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page61">[pg 61]</span><a name="Pg61" id="Pg61" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>expert in these matters and in everything else most prudent. +The Duke received Michael Angelo gladly, not only for the +great worthiness of the man, but also because Don Ercole, +his son and now Duke in his stead, was Captain of the +Signoria of Florence. The Duke riding with him in person +there was nothing that he did not show him, even more +than was needful, so many bastions, so many pieces of +artillery, and, indeed, he opened to him his cabinet also +and showed him everything with his own hands, especially +certain works of painting and portraits of his ancestors, by +masters excellent in their day.<a id="noteref_52" name="noteref_52" href="#note_52"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">52</span></span></a> But when Michael Angelo +had to depart, the Duke said to him jestingly: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Michael +Angelo, you are my prisoner. If you want me to let you +go free you must promise to do some work for me with your +own hands, whatever suits you best, let it be what you will, +sculpture or painting.</span></span>" Michael Angelo agreed, and returned +to Florence. Although much occupied in arming the +country, yet he began a large easel picture, representing +Leda and the Swan, and near by the egg from which Castor +and Pollux were born, as is fabled by ancient writers. +When the Duke heard that the Medici had entered +Florence, fearing to lose so great a treasure in the tumult, +he immediately sent one of his own people. His man, when +he came to the house of Michael Angelo and saw the +picture, said: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Why! this is but a small matter.</span></span>" Michael +Angelo asked him what his business was? Realising that +every one thinks they know other people's business best, he +replied simpering, "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">I am a merchant</span></span>;" perhaps disgusted by +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page62">[pg 62]</span><a name="Pg62" id="Pg62" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>such a question, and not being taken for a gentleman, +while at the same time despising the industry of the +Florentine citizens, who for the most part are merchants, +as if he had said: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">You ask what is my business, would you +ever believe that I am a merchant?</span></span>" Michael Angelo heard +what he said, and replied: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">You have done bad business for +your lord; leave my sight.</span></span>" So having dismissed the Ducal +messenger, he gave the picture shortly afterwards to one +of his assistants, who had two sisters to marry off. It was +sent into France, where it still is,<a id="noteref_53" name="noteref_53" href="#note_53"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">53</span></span></a> and was bought by +King Francis.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">XLVIII. Now to return, Michael Angelo having been +called to Rome by Pope Clement, thereupon began the +affair with the Duke of Urbino's agents concerning the +Tomb of Julius. Clement, who wished to employ him in +Florence, tried by every means to free him, and gave him +for his attorney one Messer Tommaso, of Prato, who afterwards +became Datario. But Michael Angelo, who knew +and feared the ill-will of Duke Alessandro towards him, +and at the same time loved and revered the bones of Pope +Julius, and all the illustrious House della Rovere, did all +he could to remain in Rome and work at the Tomb; the +more so because he was accused by every one of having +received from Pope Julius for that purpose fully sixteen +thousand scudi, and of having enjoyed it without doing +what he had undertaken. As he held his honour dear he +could not bear the disgrace, and desired that the affair +should be cleared up, not refusing, although he was old, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page63">[pg 63]</span><a name="Pg63" id="Pg63" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>the heavy task he had begun. It came to this pass: the +adversaries were unable to prove payments that came +within a long way of the sum they had at first stated; on +the contrary, more than two-thirds were wanting of the +entire sum agreed upon by the two Cardinals. Clement +thought this a fine opportunity to get rid of the business, +and to leave Michael Angelo free to serve him. He called +him and said: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Come, tell me, you wish to complete this +tomb; but you want to know who is to pay for the rest of +it.</span></span>" Michael Angelo, who knew the Pope's mind, and that +he wished to make use of him himself, replied: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">And what +if some one were found who would pay me?</span></span>" Pope Clement +said to him: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">You are quite mad if you imagine that any +one is likely to come forward to offer you a penny.</span></span>" So +when Messer Tommaso, his attorney, appeared in court +making his proposition to the agents of the Duke, they +began to look one another in the face, and determined +together that some sort of tomb should be made for the +money that had already been advanced. Michael Angelo, +thinking well of it, consented willingly, moved chiefly by +the influence of the Cardinal of Montevecchio, a follower +of Julius II. and uncle to Julius III., now, thanks be to +God, our Pontiff. The agreement was: That Michael +Angelo should make a tomb with one <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">façade</span></span> only, and +that he should use the marbles already carved for the +quadrangular tomb, arranging them as best he could; and +that he should supply six statues from his own hand. It +was conceded to Pope Clement that Michael Angelo should +serve him in Florence, or wheresoever he pleased, four +months in the year, his Holiness requiring this for the +work in Florence. Such was the contract agreed upon +between his Excellency the Duke and Michael Angelo.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page64">[pg 64]</span><a name="Pg64" id="Pg64" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>XLIX. But now it must be understood that these +accounts being settled Michael Angelo, to appear more +indebted to the Duke of Urbino and to give Pope Clement +less hope of sending him to Florence (where he did not by +any means wish to go), secretly agreed with the counsel +and agent of his Excellency that it should be said that he +had received some thousand scudi more on this account than +he really had. This was done not only by word of mouth, +but without his knowledge and consent it was inserted in +the written contract, not when it was sealed but when it +was written out, at which he was much disturbed. Nevertheless, +the counsel persuaded him that it would not +prejudice his case, for it did not matter whether the contract +specified twenty thousand or one thousand scudi, +since they were agreed that the scheme of the Tomb should +now be reduced in scale according to the amount of money +actually received, adding that nobody but themselves +would question the proceeding, and his interests were +secured by the understanding that was between them. So +with this Michael Angelo was pacified, because it appeared +to him that he might put his trust in them, as also +because he desired that this excuse should serve him with +the Pope for the purpose mentioned above. And thus the +matter ended for the time; but it was not nearly over +yet, because after he had served the four months at +Florence and returned to Rome, the Pope sought to use +him in another way, by making him paint the end wall of +the Sistine Chapel. And as one who had a good wit, he +thought of one thing after another until finally he resolved +to have the Day of the Last Judgment painted, considering +that the variety and grandeur of the subject would +give a wide field for this man to prove the power that +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page65">[pg 65]</span><a name="Pg65" id="Pg65" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>was in him. Michael Angelo, knowing the obligation +he was under to the Duke of Urbino, endeavoured to +free himself from this new charge, but as he could not +he put it off as much as possible; whilst pretending to +busy himself with the cartoon, as he partly did, he was +secretly working at the statues for the Tomb.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc24" id="toc24"></a><a name="pdf25" id="pdf25"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page66">[pg 66]</span><a name="Pg66" id="Pg66" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">CHAPTER IX</span></h2> + +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.40em; margin-top: 2.40em"><span style="font-size: 120%">THE LAST ACT OF THE TRAGEDY OF THE TOMB, +AND THE DAY OF JUDGMENT</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">L. Meanwhile Pope Clement died and Paul III. was +elected. He sent for Michael Angelo and requested him +to serve him. Michael Angelo, fearing that he would be +hindered in the work of the Tomb, replied that he could +not, for he was engaged by contract to the Duke of +Urbino until he had finished the work that he had in +hand. The Pope was much annoyed, and said: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">It is +some thirty years that I have had this wish, shall I not +satisfy it now I am Pope? Where is the contract that I +may tear it up?</span></span>" Michael Angelo, seeing it had come to +this, was for leaving Rome and betaking himself to the +country about Genoa, to an abbey of the Bishops of +Aleria, to a follower of Julius, very much his friend, +and there bring his work to an end. This place was conveniently +near Carrara and good for carrying the marbles +by sea. He thought also of going to Urbino, where he +had formerly designed to live, as a quiet resting-place, and +where, for the sake of Julius, he would be welcomed cordially. +For this reason he had sent one of his men some +months before to buy a house and some land; but fearing +the greatness of the Pontiff, with good reason, he did not +go, and hoped with soft words to satisfy the Pope.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page67">[pg 67]</span><a name="Pg67" id="Pg67" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>LI. But the Pope continued firm in his proposals. +One day he came to visit Michael Angelo in his house, +bringing with him eight or ten Cardinals. He wished to +see the cartoon for the wall of the Sistine Chapel made for +Clement, and the statues already carved for the Tomb, and +minutely examined everything. Then the Most Reverend +Cardinal of Mantua, who was present, seeing the Moses, +of which we have already written, and of which we will +write more copiously by-and-bye, said: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">This statue alone +is enough to do honour to the Tomb of Pope Julius.</span></span>" When +Pope Paul had seen everything he again asked Michael +Angelo, in the presence of the Cardinals, including the +before-mentioned Most Reverend and Illustrious of Mantua, +to come and work for him, but finding Michael Angelo +obdurate, he said: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">I will arrange that the Duke of +Urbino shall be satisfied with these statues by your hand, +and that the three remaining ones shall be given to others +to do.</span></span>" He obtained a new contract from the agents, +confirmed by his Excellency the Duke, who did not wish +to displease the Pope. Although Michael Angelo might +have avoided paying for these three statues, this contract +freeing him from the obligation, nevertheless he wished to +bear the expense himself, and he deposited for these and +the remaining works of the Tomb one thousand five hundred +and eighty ducats. Thus the agents of the Duke +allowed it, and the Tragedy of the Tomb and the Tomb +itself had an end at last. To-day it may be seen in the +Church of San Pietro ad Vincula, not according to the +first design with four sides, but with one side, and that +one of the lesser, not detached all round and isolated, +but built up against a wall on account of the hindrances +mentioned above. It is yet true that, although it is +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page68">[pg 68]</span><a name="Pg68" id="Pg68" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>botched and patched up, it is the most worthy monument +to be found in Rome, or, perhaps, anywhere else; +if for nothing else, at least, for the three statues that are +by the hand of the master: among them that most +marvellous Moses, leader and captain of the Hebrews, +who is seated in an attitude of thought and wisdom, holding +under his right arm the tables of the law, and supporting +his chin with his left hand, like one tired and full of cares. +Between the fingers of that hand escape long waves of +his beard—a very beautiful thing to see. And his face is +full of life and thought, and capable of inspiring love and +terror, which, perhaps, was the truth. It has, according +to the usual descriptions, the two horns on his head a +little way from the top of the forehead. He is robed and +shod in the manner of the antique, with his arms bare. +A work most marvellous and full of art, and much more +so because all the form is apparent beneath the beautiful +garments with which it is covered. The dress does not +hide the shape and beauty of the body, as, in a word, +may be seen in all Michael Angelo's clothed figures, +whether in painting or sculpture. The statue is more +than twice the size of life. At the right hand of this +statue, under a niche, is one that represents Contemplative +Life—a woman, larger than life and of rare beauty, with +bent knee, not to the ground but on a plinth, with her +face and both her hands raised to heaven, so that she +seems to breathe love in every part. On the other side, +that is to say on the left of Moses, is Active Life, with a +mirror in her right hand, into which she gazes attentively, +meaning by this that our actions should be +governed by forethought; and in her left hand a garland +of flowers. In this Michael Angelo followed Dante, of +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page69">[pg 69]</span><a name="Pg69" id="Pg69" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>whom he was always a great student, for in his Purgatorio +he feigns to have the Countess Matilda, whom he +takes to represent Active Life, in a field full of flowers. +The Tomb is altogether beautiful, especially the binding of +the several parts together by the great cornice, to which +no one could take exception.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">LII. Now that is enough for this work; indeed, I fear it +is only too much, and that instead of giving pleasure it +will have been tedious to the reader. Nevertheless, it +appeared to me necessary, in order to remove those unfortunate +and false scandals, rooted in men's minds, that +Michael Angelo had received sixteen thousand scudi, and +then would not carry out the work he had undertaken. +Neither the one nor the other was true, because he had from +Julius for the Tomb only one thousand ducats, spent in +those months of quarrying marble at Carrara. How then +could Michael Angelo have received money for it from him, +since he changed his purpose and would hear no more of +the Tomb? As to the money Michael Angelo received, +after the death of Pope Julius, from the two cardinals, +his executors, Michael Angelo possesses a written public +acknowledgment—by the hand of a notary, from Bernardo +Bini, Florentine citizen, who was trustee, and payed out +the money—that the payments amounted to about three +thousand ducats. Never was man more anxious about his +work than Michael Angelo in this, as much because he +knew how great fame it would bring him as for the loving +memory in which he always held the blessed spirit of Pope +Julius, for that reason he has always honoured and loved the +House della Rovere, and especially the Dukes of Urbino, +for that reason he has contended with two Popes, as has +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page70">[pg 70]</span><a name="Pg70" id="Pg70" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>been said, who wished to withdraw him from the undertaking. +But what grieved Michael Angelo the most, is +that instead of thanks all he got was odium and disgrace.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">LIII. But returning to Pope Paul. I must tell you +that after the last agreement made between his Excellency +the Duke and Michael Angelo, the Pope took Michael +Angelo into his service, and desired him to carry out what +he had begun in the time of Clement, to paint the end +wall of the Sistine Chapel, which he had already covered +with rough-cast and screened off with boards from floor to +ceiling. As this work was instigated by Pope Clement, +and begun in his time, it does not bear the arms of Paul, +although he desired it; but Pope Paul so loved and +reverenced Michael Angelo that however much he desired +it he would never have vexed him. In this work Michael +Angelo expressed all that the human figure is capable of +in the art of painting, not leaving out any pose or action +whatsoever. The composition is careful and well thought +out, but lengthy to describe; perhaps it is unnecessary, as +so many engravings and such a variety of drawings of it +have been dispersed everywhere. Nevertheless, for those +who have not seen the real thing, and into whose hands +the engravings have not come, let us say, briefly, that +the whole is divided into parts, right and left, upper and +lower, and central. In the central part, near to the earth, +are seven angels, described by Saint John in the Apocalypse, +with trumpets to their lips, calling the dead to +judgment from the four corners of the earth. With them +are two others having an open book in their hands, in +which every one reads and recognises his past life, having +almost to judge himself. At the sound of these trumpets +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page71">[pg 71]</span><a name="Pg71" id="Pg71" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>the graves open and the human race issues from the earth, +all with varied and marvellous gestures; while in some, +according to the prophecy of Ezekiel, the bones only have +come together, in some they are half clothed with flesh, +and in others entirely covered; some naked, some clothed +in the shrouds and grave-clothes in which they were wrapped +when buried, and of which they seek to divest themselves. +Among these are some who are not yet fully risen, and +looking up to heaven in doubt as to whither Divine +justice shall call them. It is a delightful thing to see +them with labour and pains issue forth from the earth, and, +with arms out-stretched to heaven, take flight; those who +are already risen lifted up into the air, some higher and +some lower, with different gestures and characters. Above +the angels of the trumpets is the Son of God in majesty, +in the form of a man, with arm and strong right hand +uplifted. He wrathfully curses the wicked, and drives +them from before his face into eternal fire. With His left +hand stretched out to those on the right, He seems to +draw the good gently to Himself. The angels are seen +between heaven and earth as executors of the Divine commands. +On the right they rush to aid the elect, whose +flight is impeded by malignant spirits; and on the left to +dash back to earth the damned, who in their audacity +attempt to scale the heavens. Evil spirits drag down +these wicked ones into the abyss, the proud by the hair of +the head, and so also every sinner by the member through +which he sinned. Beneath them is seen Charon with his +black boat, just as Dante described him in the "Inferno," +on muddy Acheron, raising his oar to strike some laggard +soul. As the bark touches the bank, pushed on by Divine +justice, all these souls strive to fling themselves ashore, so +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page72">[pg 72]</span><a name="Pg72" id="Pg72" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>that fear, as the poet says, is changed into longing. Afterwards +they receive from Minos their sentence, to be dragged +by demons to the bottomless pit, where are marvellous +contortions, grievous and desperate as the place demands. +In the middle of the composition, on the clouds of heaven, +the Blessed already arisen form a crown and circle around +the Son of God. Apart, and beside the Son, appears His +Mother, timorous and seeming hardly secure herself from +the wrath and mystery of God; she draws as near as +possible to the Son. Next to her the Baptist, the Twelve +Apostles, and all the saints of God, each one showing to +the tremendous Judge the symbol of the martyrdom by +which he glorified God: St. Andrew the cross, St. Bartholomew +his skin, St. Lawrence the gridiron, St. Sebastian +the arrows, San Biagio the combs of iron, St. Catherine +the wheel, and others other things whereby they are known. +Above these on the right and left, on the upper part of +the wall, are groups of angels, with actions gracious and +rare, raising in heaven the Cross of the Son of God, the +Sponge, the Crown of Thorns, the Nails, and the Column +of the Flagellation, to reproach the wicked with the +blessings of God of which they have been so heedless, and +for which they have been so ungrateful, and to comfort +and give confidence to the good. There are infinite details +which I pass over in silence. It is enough that, besides the +divine composition, all that the human figure is capable of +in the art of painting is here to be seen.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc26" id="toc26"></a><a name="pdf27" id="pdf27"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page73">[pg 73]</span><a name="Pg73" id="Pg73" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">CHAPTER X</span></h2> + +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.40em; margin-top: 2.40em"><span style="font-size: 120%">THE CHAPEL OF POPE PAUL AND THE PIETÀ OF +SANTA MARIA DEL FIORE</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">LIV. Finally, Pope Paul having built a chapel on the +same floor as the before-mentioned Sistine, he desired to +decorate it in his own memory, and he made Michael +Angelo paint the frescoes on the side walls. In one is +represented the crucifixion of St. Peter; in the other the +story of St. Paul—how he was converted by the apparition +of Jesus Christ—both stupendous in general composition +as in the individual figures. And this is the last work of +painting by Michael Angelo that has been seen to this +day; he finished it in his seventy-fifth year. At present +he has in hand a group in marble, which he works at for +his pleasure, as one who full of ideas and powers must +produce something every day. It is a group of four figures, +larger than life—a Deposition. The dead Christ is held +up by His Mother; she supports the body on her bosom +with her arms and with her knees, a wonderfully beautiful +gesture. She is aided by Nicodemus above, who is erect +and stands firmly—he holds her under the arms and +sustains her with manly strength—and on the left by one +of the Marys, who, although exhibiting the deepest grief, +does not omit to do those offices that the Mother, by the +extremity of her sorrow, is unable to perform. The Christ +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page74">[pg 74]</span><a name="Pg74" id="Pg74" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>is dead, all His limbs fall relaxed, but withall in a very +different manner from the Christ Michael Angelo made for +the Marchioness of Pescara or the Christ in the Madonna +della Febbre. It is impossible to speak of its beauty and +its sorrow, of the grieving and sad faces of them all, +especially of the afflicted Mother. Let it suffice; I tell you +it is a rare thing, and one of the most laborious works that +he has yet done, principally because all the figures are +distinct from each other, the folds of the draperies of one +figure not confused with those of the others.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">LV. Michael Angelo has done infinitely more things +of which I have not spoken, such as the Christ that is in +the Church of the Minerva, a St. Matthew in Florence; +when he began it he designed to carve all the twelve +Apostles to be placed near twelve pilasters in the Duomo. +His cartoons for several works of paintings, and of designs +for buildings, both public and private, are infinite in +number; and, lastly, for a bridge to span the Grand Canal +of Venice, of a new shape and style of which the like was +never seen; and many other things never to be seen. It +would be long to describe them, so I make an end. He +intends to give the Deposition from the Cross to some +church, and to be buried at the foot of the altar where it +is placed. The Lord God in His goodness long preserve +him to us, for without doubt the same day will end his +life and his labours, as is written of Socrates. His active +and vigorous old age gives me firm hope that he has many +years to live, as also the long life of his father, who lived to +ninety-two years without knowing what it was to have a +fever, and then dying more for lack of resolution than for +any illness; so that when he was dead, as Michael Angelo +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page75">[pg 75]</span><a name="Pg75" id="Pg75" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>relates, his face retained the same colour that he had when +living, appearing rather asleep than dead.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">LVI. From a child Michael Angelo was a hard worker, +and to the gifts of nature added study, not using the +labours and industry of others, but, desiring to learn from +nature herself, he set her up before him as the true +example. There is no animal whose anatomy he did not +desire to study, much more than that of man; so that +those who have spent all their lives in that science, and +who make a profession of it, hardly know so much of it as +he. I speak of such knowledge as is necessary to the arts +of painting and sculpture, not of other minutiæ that +anatomists observe. And thus it is that his figures show +so much art and learning, so that they are inimitable by +any painter whatever. I have always been of this opinion, +that the forces and efforts of nature have a prescribed end, +fixed and ordained by God, which it is impossible for +ordinary powers to pass; and this is so not only in painting +and sculpture, but universally in all arts and sciences; and +that she gives power to one person that he may be a rule +and example in a particular art, giving him the first place; +so that afterwards, if any one desires to bring forth a +great work in that art, worthy to be read or seen, he +must work in the same way as the first great example, or, +at least, similarly, and go by his road; for if he does not +his work will be much inferior, the worse the more he +diverges from the direct path. After Plato and Aristotle, +how many philosophers have we seen who, not following +them, have been worth anything? How many orators +after Demosthenes and Cicero? How many mathematicians +after Euclid and Archimedes? How many doctors +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page76">[pg 76]</span><a name="Pg76" id="Pg76" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>after Hypocrates and Galen? Or poets after Homer and +Virgil? And if there has been any one who has been +able by his own abilities to arrive at the first place in any +one of these sciences and finds it already occupied, he either +acknowledges the first one to have arrived at perfection, +and gives up the attempt, or if he has sense he follows +him as the ideal of the perfect. This has been exemplified +in our own day in Bembo, in Sanazzaro, in Caro, in +Guidoccione, in the Marchioness of Pescara, and in other +writers and lovers of the Tuscan rhyme, who, although +gifted with the highest and most singular genius, none +the less, not being able of themselves to do better than +nature exemplifies in Petrarca, they set themselves to +follow him, but so happily that they are judged worthy to +be read and counted with the best.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc28" id="toc28"></a><a name="pdf29" id="pdf29"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page77">[pg 77]</span><a name="Pg77" id="Pg77" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">CHAPTER XI</span></h2> + +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.40em; margin-top: 2.40em"><span style="font-size: 120%">CONCLUSION OF THE LIFE BY CONDIVI</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">LVII. Now to consider my remarks. I say, that it +seems to me, that nature has endowed Michael Angelo so +largely with all her riches in these arts of painting and +sculpture, that I am not to be reproached for saying +that his figures are almost inimitable. Nor does it +appear that I have allowed myself to be too much carried +away, for until now he alone has worthily taken up +both chisel and brush. Of the painting of the ancients +there is no memorial, and to whom does he yield in their +sculpture (of which, indeed, much remains)? In the judgment +of men learned in the art, to no one, unless we stoop +to the opinion of the vulgar, who admire the antique for +the sole reason that they envy the genius and industry of +their own times. All the same, I have not yet heard any one +say the contrary; this man is so far above envy. Raffael +da Urbino, although he desired to compete with Michael +Angelo, was often constrained to say that he thanked God +he was born in his time as he acquired from him a style +very different from that which he learnt from his father, +who was a painter, and from his master Perugino. But +what greater and clearer sign can we ever have of the +excellence of this man than the contention of the Princes +of the world for him? From the four Pontiffs, Julius, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page78">[pg 78]</span><a name="Pg78" id="Pg78" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Leo, Clement, and Paul, to the Grand Turk, father of +him who to-day holds the Empire. As I have said above, +the Sultan sent certain monks of the Order of Saint +Francis with letters begging Michael Angelo to come and +stay with him; arranging by letters of credit for the bank +of the Gondi, in Florence, to advance the amount of money +necessary for his journey, and also that from Cossa, near +Ragusi, he should be accompanied to Constantinople +most honourably by one of his grandees. Francesco<a id="noteref_54" name="noteref_54" href="#note_54"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">54</span></span></a> +Valesio, King of France, tried every means to get him, +crediting him with three thousand scudi for his journey +whenever he should go. Il Bruciolo was sent to Rome by +the Signoria of Venice to invite him to come and dwell in +that city, and to offer him a provision of six hundred scudi +a year, not binding him to anything, only that he should +honour the Republic with his presence; with the condition +also that if he did any work in her service he should be +paid for it as if he received no pension from them at all. +These are not ordinary doings that happen every day, but +new and out of the common use, and would only happen +to singular and most excellent worth, as was that of +Homer, for whom many cities contested, each one appropriating +him as her own.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">LVIII. He is held of no less account, than by those +already named, by the present Pontiff, Julius III., a Prince +of supreme wisdom and a lover and patron of all the arts; +but particularly inclined to painting, sculpture, and architecture, +as may be clearly known by the works he has +done in the Palazzo and the Belvedere, and now has +ordered for his villa Giulia (a memorial and scheme worthy +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page79">[pg 79]</span><a name="Pg79" id="Pg79" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>of a noble and generous soul like his). It is filled with +so many statues, ancient and modern, so great variety of +beautiful stones, precious columns, plaster work, paintings, +and every other kind of ornament, of which I will write +another time, as a unique work, not yet in its perfection, +requires. He does not ask Michael Angelo to work for +him. Having respect for his age, he understands well and +appreciates his greatness; but wishes not to overburden +him. This regard, in my judgment, brings Michael +Angelo more honour than all his employment under the +other Popes. It is, however, true, that in the paintings and +<span class="tei tei-corr">architecture</span> that his Holiness is continually having done, +he almost always seeks Michael Angelo's advice and judgment, +frequently sending the artists to seek him at his +house. It grieves me, and it grieves also his Holiness, +that by reason of a certain natural timidity, or let us say +respect and reverence, which some call pride, Michael +Angelo does not profit by the goodwill, kindness, and +liberality of so great a Pontiff and so much his friend. +As I first heard from the most Reverend Monsignor di +Forlì, his chamberlain, the Pope has often said that (if it +were possible) he would willingly take from his own +years and his own blood to add to the life of Michael +Angelo, that the world might not so soon be deprived of +such a man. I also, having access to his Holiness, heard it +from his lips with my own ears, and more also, that if +he survives him, as in the natural course of life is probable, +he will have Michael Angelo's body embalmed and +keep it near him, so that it should be as lasting as his +works. He said this at the beginning of his Pontificate +to Michael Angelo himself in the presence of many. I +do not know what could be more honourable to Michael +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page80">[pg 80]</span><a name="Pg80" id="Pg80" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Angelo than these words, or a greater proof of the esteem +in which the Pope holds him.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">LIX. Again the Pope showed his esteem plainly when +Pope Paul died and he was created Pontiff, in a consistory, +all the Cardinals then in Rome being present. He defended +Michael Angelo and protected him from the overseers of +the fabric of St. Peter's, who, for no fault of his, as they +said, but of his servants, wished to deprive him of, or at +least to restrain, that authority given him by Pope Paul by +a <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">moto proprio</span></span>, of which more will be said below. He +defended him, and not only confirmed the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">moto proprio</span></span> +but honoured him by many kind words, not lending his +ears to the quarrels of the overseers or anybody else. +Michael Angelo knows (as many times he has told me) the +love and kindness of his Holiness towards him, and how +he respects him; and because he cannot requite the Pope +with his services, and show his love, he will regret all the +rest of his life that he seems useless and appears ungrateful +to his Holiness. One thing comforts him somewhat (as +he is accustomed to say); knowing the wisdom of his +Holiness he hopes to be excused, and being unable to give +more, that his good will may be accepted. Nor does he +refuse, as far as he has the power, and for all he may be +worth, to spend his life in his service; this I have from +his own mouth. Nevertheless, at the request of his +Holiness, Michael Angelo designed the façade of a palace +that the Pope had a mind to build in Rome, a thing new +and original to those who have seen it—not bound to any +laws, ancient or modern, as in many other works of his in +Florence and in Rome—proving that architecture has +not been so arbitrarily handled in the past that there +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page81">[pg 81]</span><a name="Pg81" id="Pg81" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>is not room for fresh invention no less delightful and +beautiful.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">LX. Now to return to anatomy. He gave up dissection +because it turned his stomach so that he could neither eat +nor drink with benefit. It is very true that he did not +give up until he was so learned and rich in such knowledge +that he often had in his mind the wish to write, for the +sake of sculptors and painters, a treatise on the movements +of the human body, its aspect, and concerning the bones, +with an ingenious theory of his own, devised after long +practice. He would have done it had he not mistrusted his +powers, lest they should not suffice to treat with dignity +and grace of such a subject, like one practised in the +sciences and in rhetoric. I know well that when he reads +Alberto Duro he finds him very weak, seeing in his own +mind how much more beautiful and useful his own conception +would be. To tell the truth, Alberto only treats +of the proportions and diversities of the body, for which +one cannot make fixed rules, making figures as regular as +posts; and what matters more, says nothing of human +movements and gestures. And because Michael Angelo +has now reached a ripe old age, he thinks of putting his +ideas in writing and giving them to the world. With great +devotion he has explained everything minutely to me; he +also conferred with Messer Realdo Colombo, an anatomist +and most excellent surgeon, a great friend of Michael +Angelo's and mine. He sent to Michael Angelo for study +the body of a Moor, a very fine young man, and very suitable +to the purpose; he was sent to Santa Agata, where I then +lived and still live, as it is a quiet place. On this corpse +Michael Angelo showed me many rare and recondite facts, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page82">[pg 82]</span><a name="Pg82" id="Pg82" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>perhaps never before understood, all of which I noted +down, and hope one day, with the help of some learned +man, to publish for the advantage and use of painters and +sculptors; but enough of this.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">LXI. He devoted himself to perspective and to architecture, +his works show with what profit. Michael Angelo +did not content himself with knowing only the main +features of architecture, but wished also to know about +everything that could be useful in any way in that profession, +such as ties, platforms, scaffolding, and such like, +he knew as much of these things as those who profess +nothing else, which was exemplified in the time of Julius II. +in this wise. When Michael Angelo had to paint the +ceiling of the Sistine Chapel the Pope ordered Bramante +to erect the scaffolding. For all the architect he was he did +not know how to do it, but pierced the vault in many +places, letting down certain ropes through these holes to +sling the platform. When Michael Angelo saw it he smiled, +and asked Bramante what was to be done when he came to +those holes? Bramante had no defence to make, only +replied that it could not be done any other way. The +matter came before the Pope, and Bramante replied again +to the same effect. The Pope turned to Michael Angelo +and said: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">"As it is not satisfactory go and do it yourself."</span></span> +Michael Angelo took down the platform, and took away +so much rope from it, that having given it to a poor man +that assisted him, it enabled him to dower and marry two +daughters. Michael Angelo erected his scaffold without +ropes, so well devised and arranged that the more weight +it had to bear the firmer it became. This opened Bramante's +eyes, and gave him a lesson in the building of a platform, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page83">[pg 83]</span><a name="Pg83" id="Pg83" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>which was very useful to him in the works of St. Peter's. +For all that, Michael Angelo, although he had no equal in +all these things, would not make a profession of architecture. +On the contrary, when at last Antonio da San +Gallo, the architect of St. Peter's, died, and Pope Paul +wished to put Michael Angelo in his place, he refused the +post, saying that architecture was not his art. He refused +it so earnestly that the Pope had to command him to take +it, and issue an ample <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">moto proprio</span></span>, which was afterwards +confirmed by Pope Julius III., now, as I have said, by the +grace of God, our Pontiff. For these, his services, Michael +Angelo received no payment; so he wished it to be stated +in the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">moto proprio</span></span>. One day, when Pope Paul sent him +a hundred scudi of gold by Messer Pier Giovanni, then +Gentleman of the Wardrobe to his Holiness, now Bishop of +Forlì, as his month's salary on account of the building, +Michael Angelo would not accept it, saying it was not in +the agreement they had between them, and he sent them +back. The Pope was very angry, as I have been told by +Messer Alessandro Ruffini, a gentleman of Rome, then +Groom to the Chambers and Carver before his Holiness; +but this did not move Michael Angelo from his resolution. +When he had accepted this charge he made a new model, +both because certain parts of the old one did not please +him in many respects, and, besides, if it was followed one +would sooner expect to see the end of the world than +St. Peter's finished. This model, praised and approved by +the Pope, is now being followed to the great satisfaction +of those who have judgment, although there be certain +persons who do not approve of it.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">LXII. Michael Angelo gave himself, then, whilst still +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page84">[pg 84]</span><a name="Pg84" id="Pg84" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>young, not only to sculpture and painting, but to all the +kindred arts, with such devotion that for a time he almost +withdrew from the fellowship of men, only consorting +with a few. So that by some he was held to be proud, +and by others odd and eccentric, though he had none of +these vices; but (like many excellent men) a love of knowledge +and continued exercise in the learned arts made +him solitary, and he was so satisfied and took such a +delight in them that company not only did not please +him but even annoyed him, as interrupting his meditations +he was never less solitary than when alone (as the +great Scipio used to say of himself).</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">LXIII. Nevertheless, he willingly kept the friendship +of those from whose wise and learned conversation he +could gather any fruit and in whom shone some ray of +excellence, such as the Most Reverend and Illustrious +Monsignor Polo,<a id="noteref_55" name="noteref_55" href="#note_55"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">55</span></span></a> for his rare learning and singular goodness; +and similarly my Most Reverend patron the Cardinal +Crispo, finding in him besides his many good +qualities a rare and excellent judgment. He had also a +great affection for the Most Reverend Cardinal Santa Croce, +a man of great weight and most prudent, of whom I have +heard him speak more than once with the highest esteem; +and the Most Reverend Maffei, whose goodness and learning +he always speaks of; and generally loves and honours all the +House of the Farnese, for the lively memory he cherishes +of Pope Paul, recalling him with the utmost reverence, +speaking of him constantly as a good and holy old man. +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page85">[pg 85]</span><a name="Pg85" id="Pg85" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>And so, too, the Most Reverend Patriarch of Jerusalem, +formerly Bishop of Cesena, with whom he has often conversed +familiarly, as one whose open and liberal nature +much pleased him. He had also a close friendship with +my Most Reverend patron, the Cardinal Ridolfi, of happy +memory, the refuge of all men of talent. There are +others whom I leave out, so as not to be tedious, as Monsignor +Claudio Toleméi, Messer Lorenzo Ridolfi, Messer +Donato Giannotti, Messer Lionardo Malaspini, Il Lottino, +Messer Tomaso de' Cavalieri, and other honourable gentlemen, +of whom I will not write at length. Finally, he has +a great affection for Annibal Caro. He has told me that +he is sorry not to have known him before, as he is so much +to his taste. More particularly he loved greatly the +Marchioness of Pescara, of whose divine spirit he was +enamoured, being in return loved tenderly by her. He +still possesses many letters of hers, full of an honest and +most sweet love, such as issued from her heart. He has +written to her also many and many sonnets, full of wit +and sweet desire. She often returned to Rome from +Viterbo and other places, where she had gone for her +pastime and to spend the summer, for no other reason +than to see Michael Angelo; and he bore her so much +love that I remember to have heard him say: Nothing +grieved him so much as that when he went to see her +after she passed away from this life he did not kiss her on +the brow or face, as he did kiss her hand. Recalling this, +her death, he often remained dazed as one bereft of sense. +He made at the wish of his lady a naked Christ, when He +was taken down from the Cross, and His dead body +would have fallen at the feet of His most holy Mother, if +it were not supported by the arms of two angels; but +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page86">[pg 86]</span><a name="Pg86" id="Pg86" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>she, seated under the Cross with a tearful and sorrowful +face, raises to heaven both hands with her arms out-stretched, +with this cry, which one reads inscribed on the +stem of the cross:</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"><span style="font-size: 90%">NON VI SI PENSA QUANTO SANGUE COSTA!</span></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Cross is like that which was carried in procession by +the Bianchi at the time of the plague of 1348, and afterwards +placed in the Church of Santa Croce, at Florence. +He also made for love of her a drawing of a Jesu Christ +on the Cross, not as if dead, as is the common use, but +with a Divine gesture. Raising His face to the Father He +seems to say, "Eli, Eli." The body does not hang like +a corpse but as if still living, and contorted by the bitter +agony of His death.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">LXIV. And as he greatly delighted in the conversation +of the learned, so he took pleasure in the study of +the writers of both prose and poetry. He had a special +admiration for Dante, delighting in the admirable genius +of that man, almost all of whose works he knew by heart; +he held Petrarca in no less esteem. He not only delighted +in reading, but occasionally in composing, too, as may be +seen by some sonnets that are to be found of his. Concerning +some of them, there have been published—"Lectures +and Criticisms by Varchi." But he wrote these sonnets +more for his pleasure than because he made a profession +of it, always belittling them himself, accusing himself of +ignorance in these matters.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">LXV. Likewise, with deep study and attention, he read +the Holy Scriptures, both the Old and the New Testaments, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page87">[pg 87]</span><a name="Pg87" id="Pg87" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>and searched them diligently, as also the writings +of Savonarola, for whom he always had a great affection, +keeping always in his mind the memory of his living voice. +He has also loved the beauty of the human body, as one +who best understands it; and in such wise that certain +carnal-minded men, who do not comprehend the love of +beauty, have taken occasion to think and speak evil of +him, as if Alcibiades, a youth of perfect beauty, had not +been purely loved by Socrates, from whose side he arose +as from the side of his father. I have often heard Michael +Angelo reason and discourse of Love, and learned afterwards +from those who were present that he did not speak +otherwise of Love than is to be found written in the works +of Plato. For myself I do not know what Plato says of +Love, but I know well that I, who have known Michael +Angelo so long and so intimately, have never heard issue +from his mouth any but the most honest of words, which +had the power to extinguish in youth every ill-regulated +and unbridled desire which might arise. By this we may +know that no evil thoughts were born in him. He loved +not only human beauty, but universally every beautiful +thing—a beautiful horse, a beautiful dog, a beautiful +country, a beautiful plant, a beautiful mountain, a beautiful +forest, and every place and thing beautiful and rare +after its kind, admiring them all with a marvellous love; +thus choosing the beauty in nature as the bees gather +honey from the flowers, using it afterwards in his works, +as all those have done who have ever made a noise in +painting. That old master who had to paint a Venus +was not content to see one virgin only, but studied many, +and taking from each her most beautiful and perfect +feature gave them to his Venus; and, in truth, who ever +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page88">[pg 88]</span><a name="Pg88" id="Pg88" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>expects to arrive at a true theory of art without this +method of study is greatly mistaken.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">LXVI. All through his life Michael Angelo has been +very abstemious, taking food more from necessity than +from pleasure, especially when at work, at which time, for +the most part, he has been content with a piece of bread, +which he munched whilst he laboured. But latterly he +has lived more regularly, his advanced age requiring it. +I have often heard him say: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Ascanio, rich man as I have +made myself, I have always lived as a poor one.</span></span>" And as +he took little food so he took little sleep, which, as he +says, rarely did him any good, for sleeping almost always +made his head ache, and too much sleep made his stomach +bad. When he was more robust he often slept in his +clothes and with his buskins on; this he made a habit of +for fear of the cramp, from which he continually suffered, +besides other reasons; and he has sometimes been so long +without taking them off that when he did so the skin +came off with them like the slough of a snake. He was +never miserly with his money, nor did he hoard it, contented +with enough to live honestly. Works from his +hand were sought for more and more by the gentry +and rich people with large promises, but he has rarely +satisfied them; and when he has done so, it has been +from friendship and goodwill rather than for hope of +reward.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">LXVII. He has given away many of his things, which, +if he had wished to sell them, would have brought him in +endless money; as, for example, were there no others, +the two statues that he gave to Roberto Strozzi, his +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page89">[pg 89]</span><a name="Pg89" id="Pg89" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>great friend.<a id="noteref_56" name="noteref_56" href="#note_56"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">56</span></span></a> He has not only been liberal with his +works, but with his purse also he has often helped the +talented and studious poor in their need, whether men of +letters or painters; of this I am able to testify, having +benefited by it myself. He was never jealous of the +labours of others even in his own art, more by his goodness +of nature than any opinion he had of himself. On +the contrary, he has praised all universally, even Raphael +of Urbino, between whom and himself there was formally +some rivalry in painting, as I have written; only I have +heard him say that Raphael had not his art by nature, but +acquired it by long study. Nor is it true what many say +of him, that he would not teach; on the contrary, he has +done so willingly, as I know myself, for to me he has made +known all the secrets of his art; but unfortunately he has +met either with pupils little apt, or even if apt without +perseverance, so after working under his discipline a few +months they thought themselves masters. Now, although +he would readily do kindly acts, he was unwilling to have +them known, wishing more to do well than to appear to +do so. It must also be known that he has always desired +to cultivate the arts in persons of nobility, as was the +manner of the ancients, and not in plebeians.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">LXVIII. Michael Angelo had a most retentive memory, +so that although he has painted so many thousand figures, +as may be seen, he has never made one like to another, +or in the same pose; indeed, I have heard him say that if +ever he draws a line which he remembers to have drawn +before, he rubs it out if it is to come before the public. +He has also a most powerful imagination, from whence it +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page90">[pg 90]</span><a name="Pg90" id="Pg90" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>comes, firstly, that he is little contented with his work, +his hand not appearing to carry out the ideas he has conceived +in his mind. And, secondly, from the same cause +(as often happens to those who lead a peaceful and contemplative +life), he has always been somewhat timid; +saving only when a just indignation against some wrong or +lapse of duty to himself or to others moves him, then he +plucks up more spirit than those who are held to be +courageous; otherwise he is of a most patient disposition. +Of his modesty it is not possible to say as much as he +deserves; and so also of his manners, and his ways, they +are seasoned with pleasantries and sharp sayings: for +instance, his conversation at Bologna with a certain gentleman, +who, seeing the mere largeness and mass of the bronze +statue Michael Angelo had made, marvelled and said: +"<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Which do you suppose to be the larger, this statue or a +pair of oxen?</span></span>" To whom Michael Angelo replied: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">It is +according to the oxen you mean; if it be these of Bologna +doubtless they are much larger; if ours of Florence they are +much smaller.</span></span>"<a id="noteref_57" name="noteref_57" href="#note_57"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">57</span></span></a> So also when Il Francia, who was at that +time thought to be an Apelles in Bologna, came to see +that same statue and said: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">This is a beautiful bronze</span></span>," +it seemed to Michael Angelo that he was praising the +metal and not the form, so he laughingly replied: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">If +this be beautiful bronze, I must thank Pope Julius for it, +who gave it to me, as you have to thank the apothecaries +who provide your colours</span></span>." And another day, seeing the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page91">[pg 91]</span><a name="Pg91" id="Pg91" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>child of Francia, who was a very beautiful boy: "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">My son,</span></span>" +said he, "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">your father makes better living pictures than +painted ones.</span></span>"</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">LXIX. Michael Angelo is of a good complexion; his +figure rather sinuous and bony than fleshy and fat; +healthy above all by nature, as well as by the use of +exercise and his continence of life and moderation in taking +food; nevertheless, as a child he was feeble and sickly, and +as a man he had two illnesses. He has suffered much for +several years in the passing of urine, which trouble would +have turned into a stone if he had not been relieved by the +care and diligence of the before-mentioned Messer Realdo. +Michael Angelo has always had a good colour in his face; +he is of middle height; he is broad shouldered, with the +rest of the body in proportion, rather slight than not. +The shape of his skull in front is round; the height above +the ear is a sixth part of the circumference round the +middle of the head, so that the temples project somewhat +beyond the ears, and the ears beyond the cheek-bones, and +the cheek-bones beyond the rest of the face; the skull +in proportion to the face must be called large. The front +view of the forehead is square, the nose a little flattened, +not naturally, but because when he was a boy, one Torrigiano, +a brutal and proud fellow, with a blow almost broke +the cartilage, so that Michael Angelo was carried home as +one dead; for this Torrigiano was banished from Florence, +and he came to a bad end.<a id="noteref_58" name="noteref_58" href="#note_58"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">58</span></span></a> Michael Angelo's nose, such +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page92">[pg 92]</span><a name="Pg92" id="Pg92" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>as it is, is in proportion to the forehead and the rest of +the face. His lips are mobile, the lower one somewhat the +thicker, so that seen in profile it sticks out a little. The +chin goes well with the above-mentioned parts. The forehead +in profile is almost in front of the nose, which is little +less than broken, except for a small lump in the middle. +The eyebrows have few hairs; the eyes are rather small +than otherwise, the colour is that of horn, but changing, +with sparkles of yellow and blue; the ears in proportion; +the hair black, and beard also, but, in this his seventy-ninth +year, plentifully sprinkled with grey; his beard is +forked, four or five fingers long and not very thick, as +may be seen in his portraits. Many other things remain +to be said, but I have left them out because of the hurry +in which I bring out these writings, hearing that others<a id="noteref_59" name="noteref_59" href="#note_59"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">59</span></span></a> +wish to reap the reward of my labours, which I had confided +to their hands; so, if it should ever happen that +another should undertake this work again, I hereby offer +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page93">[pg 93]</span><a name="Pg93" id="Pg93" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>to tell him all I know, or most lovingly to give it to him +in writing. I hope before long to bring out some of +Michael Angelo's sonnets and madrigals, which I have for +a long time collected, both from himself and from others, +that the world may know the worth of his imaginations, +and how many beautiful conceits were born in his divine +spirit, and with this I close.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="page" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc30" id="toc30"></a><a name="pdf31" id="pdf31"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page95">[pg 95]</span><a name="Pg95" id="Pg95" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">PART II</span></h1> + +<h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">THE WORKS OF MICHAEL ANGELO</span></h1> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"Non essendo homo in Italia apto ad expedire una opera +di costesta qualità, e necessario che lui solo, e non altro."</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">Piero Soderini to the Marchese Alberigo Malaspina</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, </span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Gaye</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%"> ii. 107.</span></p></div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc32" id="toc32"></a><a name="pdf33" id="pdf33"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page97">[pg 97]</span><a name="Pg97" id="Pg97" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">CHAPTER I</span></h2> + +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.40em; margin-top: 2.40em"><span style="font-size: 120%">THE RAPE OF DEIANEIRA, OR THE BATTLE OF THE +CENTAURS, AND THE ANGEL OF THE SHRINE OF +SAINT DOMINIC</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">All accounts agree as to the precocity of the genius +of Michael Angelo, and Piero Soderini vouches for its +practical character in the words quoted above. It was +not until he had suffered from the procrastination and +uncertainty of the patronage of the Popes, that his work +took him so long to finish that sometimes it had to be +left incomplete. His early works were remarkable, not +only for their high finish but also for the expedition with +which they were carried out.</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"> </div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Condivi has given us the story of his early difficulties +and of his first picture,<a id="noteref_60" name="noteref_60" href="#note_60"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">60</span></span></a> probably in Michael Angelo's +own words; we may supplement this account by the +following extract from Vasari, who gathered his information +from the gossip of the workshops of Florence, +and from Ridolfo Ghirlandaio, the son of his first +master. "Michael Angelo grew in power and character +so rapidly that Domenico<a id="noteref_61" name="noteref_61" href="#note_61"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">61</span></span></a> was astonished, seeing him +do things quite extraordinary in a youth, for it seemed +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page98">[pg 98]</span><a name="Pg98" id="Pg98" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>to him that he not only surpassed the other students, of +whom Domenico had a large number, but that he often +equalled the work done by him as master. Now, one of +the lads who studied under Domenico made a pen-drawing +of some women, draped, after Ghirlandaio. Michael +Angelo took up the paper, and with a thicker pen went +over the outline of one of the women with a new line, +correcting it, and making it perfect, so that it is wonderful +to see the difference between the two styles, and the +ability and judgment of a boy, so spirited and bold that +he had the courage to correct his master's handiwork. +This drawing is to-day in my possession, valued as a +relic. I had it from Granacci to put it in my book of +drawings with others given to me by Michael Angelo. In +the year 1550, being in Rome, I, Giorgio, showed it to +Michael Angelo, who recognised it and was pleased to see +it again, saying modestly that he knew more of art as a child +than now as an old man.<a id="noteref_62" name="noteref_62" href="#note_62"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">62</span></span></a> It happened that Domenico +was working in the great Chapel of Santa Maria Novella, +and one day when he was out Michael Angelo set himself +to draw from nature the scaffolding, the tables with all the +materials of the art, and some of the young men at work. +Presently Domenico returned, and saw Michael Angelo's +drawing. He was astonished, saying this boy knows more +than I do; and he was stupefied by this style and new +realism: a gift from heaven to a child of such tender years."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page99">[pg 99]</span><a name="Pg99" id="Pg99" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>The first art school of Michael Angelo was the beautiful +Church of Santa Maria Novella, called by him +affectionately "<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Mia Sposa</span></span>." Here, day by day, he beheld +the "Last Judgment" of Orcagna, the enthroned figures +in the Spanish Chapel, and the solemn blue Madonna, +now in the Capella Rucellai, with its little figures of +prophets on the frame that are already almost Michael +Angelesque. Here he transferred cartoons for Domenico +and painted draperies and ornaments; here he mixed +colours for fresco painting after the Florentine fashion; +and here possibly he first painted on a vault. No certain +trace of his handiwork can be identified upon the walls, +but there is a nude figure seated upon the steps resting +his chin upon his hand in the fresco of the Blessed Virgin +going to the Temple, that has a sinister expression and a +force of modelling that Domenico does not usually command.</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"> </div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Now Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent, desired +to encourage the art of sculpture in Florence; he therefore +established a museum of antiquities in his garden +near San Marco, and made Bertoldo, the pupil of Donatello +and the foreman of his workshop, keeper of the +collection, with a special commission to aid and instruct +the young men who studied there. Lorenzo requested +Domenico Ghirlandaio to select from his pupils those he +considered the most promising, and send them to work in +the garden. Domenico sent Michael Angelo Buonarroti and +Francesco Granacci; possibly he was rather glad to get +these talented elements of insubordination out of his workshop. +Thus it was that Michael Angelo came under the +influence of a pupil and foreman of Donatello. Bertoldo +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page100">[pg 100]</span><a name="Pg100" id="Pg100" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>must be considered the instructor of Michael Angelo in his +beloved art of sculpture, and the most important influence +in shaping his genius. Very little is known of the +man upon whom this responsibility was placed, but he +appears to have been worthy of it. Vasari tells us +that Bertoldo "was old and could not work; that he +was none the less an able and highly reputed artist, +not only because he had most diligently chased and +polished the casts in bronze for the pupils of Donatello +his master, but also for the numerous casts in +bronze of battle-pieces and other little things, which +he had executed of his own; there was no one then +in Florence more masterly in such work." We have no +important work entirely by Bertoldo, but he must have +been a considerable artist or he would not have been +appointed to his important post by such a wise man as +Lorenzo the Magnificent. His share of the work for the +pulpits of San Lorenzo was probably much greater than +we are accustomed to think. Vasari's word <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">rinettato</span></span> +had a much wider meaning to him than it has to us, the +chasing of a bronze was considered no small part of its +quality by the Florentines. Lorenzo Ghiberti's supposed +superiority over his competitors for the doors of San +Giovanni was more in his superb finish than in anything +else. The pulpits in San Lorenzo have something about +them that is between the art of Donatello and the art of +Michael Angelo; we may even owe a large part of the +composition in some of the stories to Bertoldo. Donatello +must have needed a man of judgment and ability to +carry out the numerous and important commissions +that issued from his workshops in his old age. That +Michael Angelo studied the pulpits of San Lorenzo is +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page101">[pg 101]</span><a name="Pg101" id="Pg101" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>proved by the numerous motives he took from them in +after life; the general aspect of the figures strangely suggests +the "terribilità" of his style, and the beginnings of +several of his motives can be traced to them, such as the +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Centaurs</span></span>, the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Pietà</span></span>, and, in the Sistine ceiling, the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Adam</span></span>; +the monochrome putti used as Caryatides; the single putto +placed at the springing of two arches; the athletes supporting +garlands, similar in proportion to the cherubs +supporting garlands used for the capitals of columns in +the pulpits; two figures for the spaces over the windows. +The man with the clean-shaven and bird-like face writing in +a book and dressed in trousers tied in at the ankles, like the +captive barbarians of Roman art, in one of the semi-circular +spaces round the windows, is very like a man standing behind +the Madonna who supports the dead Christ in the deposition +of the pulpit. Perhaps it is a portrait of old Bertoldo +himself. In this panel, too, are horsemen riding animals +similar to the ones Michael Angelo drew in his last fresco, +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Conversion of Saint Paul</span></span>. The composition for +the scourging of Christ, supplied by Michael Angelo to +Sebastiano del Piombo for his wall painting in San Pietro +in Montorio, follows the lines of the bas-relief of the same +subject on the pulpit. What is more likely than that +Bertoldo should have educated his great pupil by directing +him to the glories of the last work of his master, Donatello, +and that Michael Angelo should have studied them eagerly, +particularly if Bertoldo himself was partly responsible for +some of the panels, and may have been working upon them +at this time.<a id="noteref_63" name="noteref_63" href="#note_63"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">63</span></span></a></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page102">[pg 102]</span><a name="Pg102" id="Pg102" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>The pulpits of San Lorenzo were the second school of +Michael Angelo, and Bertoldo was his master. No great +style ever sprang complete from the brain of its great +exponent, but grew and developed from master to pupil +until its supreme exponent blazed it before the world full +of the traditional fire of his predecessors, but distinctly +marked by his own dominant personality. The root of +the style of Michael Angelo may be seen in the works +of Donatello and in the pulpits of San Lorenzo. His +study of the antique,<a id="noteref_64" name="noteref_64" href="#note_64"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">64</span></span></a> modified by his love of grace, of +high finish, and his own powerful character, only had to +be added to complete the perfect flower of Florentine art, +Michael Angelo, the topmost bloom of the lily.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image02" id="image02" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig34" id="fig34"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image02.png" width="480" height="410" alt="Image #2" title="THE RAPE OF DEIANEIRA AND THE BATTLE OF THE CENTAURS" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">THE RAPE OF DEIANEIRA AND THE BATTLE OF THE CENTAURS</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">CASA BUONARROTI, FLORENCE<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission of the Fratelli Alinari. Florence</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">By good fortune, Michael Angelo attracted the notice +of Lorenzo the Magnificent, as Condivi has related;<a id="noteref_65" name="noteref_65" href="#note_65"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">65</span></span></a> +and thus at the age of fifteen years he entered the most +cultured house in Italy and there acquired that distinction +of style that he kept all through his life, both in +his art and his manner. In these halcyon days at this +hospitable table Michael Angelo met such men as Massilio +Ficino, the interpreter of Plato; Pico della Mirandola, +the phoenix of erudition; Luigi Pulci and Angelo Poliziano—the +latter is supposed to have incited Michael Angelo +to carve the bas-relief<a id="noteref_66" name="noteref_66" href="#note_66"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">66</span></span></a> now in the Casa Buonarroti, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page103">[pg 103]</span><a name="Pg103" id="Pg103" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>called by Condivi "The rape of Deianeira and the battle of +the Centaurs." This is the earliest work that we know +from the master's hand to which we can give a date; it +already shows his double love for the Hellenistic and for +the Tuscan styles. The degree of relief is alto-rilievo, +like those on the Roman sarcophagi and the pulpits of the +Pisani; in shape it is almost as high as it is long; this +unusual proportion is similar to some of the divisions +of the bronze reliefs in the Donatello pulpits at San +Lorenzo. The struggling figures, Centaurs, and Lapithæ, +already exhibit Michael Angelo's power over rhythm of +line in a crowded composition as in the later groups of +"Moses raising the Serpent in the Wilderness," and "The +Last Judgment," both in the Sistine Chapel. The method +is extraordinarily free for so young a sculptor; he evidently +thinks out his work as it proceeds; his delight in the +beauty of the male human form is shown in every figure. +Some critics have been unable to distinguish the figure of +Deianeira, as her form has been so little differentiated or +emphasised by the master. She is towards the left of the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page104">[pg 104]</span><a name="Pg104" id="Pg104" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>composition; a man holds her by the hair of her head. The +centre figures and the two at the lower corners remind us +forcibly of the pulpits of San Lorenzo.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image03" id="image03" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig35" id="fig35"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image03.png" width="480" height="605" alt="Image #3" title="THE ANGEL AT THE SHRINE OF SAINT DOMINIC" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">THE ANGEL AT THE SHRINE OF SAINT DOMINIC</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">BOLOGNA<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission of the Fratelli Alinari, Florence</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Vasari mentions another bas-relief executed at this +period, a seated Madonna with the Infant Jesus, in the +manner of Donatello; the inferior bas-relief, now in the +Casa Buonarroti, is said to be this work. If the club-shaped +feet and thick hands of the Madonna are compared +with the beautiful long feet and graceful hands of the +angel holding a candlestick, at San Domenico, in Bologna, +certainly by Michael Angelo, it cannot be supposed that +these two works were either executed or even designed +by the same artist. The pose of the Holy Child in the +Madonna bas-relief has been arranged by some one who +has seen "The Day" on the tomb of Giuliano at San +Lorenzo; in the background are children on a stairway, +somewhat in the style of Donatello, but they are more +like imitations of the later works of Michael Angelo. +The folds of the draperies are like the folds of some +silken material, whereas the folds of the robe of the angel +at San Domenico are large, like the folds of a blanket, +a characteristic of all the draperies designed by the +master. This bas-relief, now in the Casa Buonarroti, +was presented to Cosimo dè Medici, first Grand Duke of +Tuscany, by Michael Angelo's nephew Leonardo,<a id="noteref_67" name="noteref_67" href="#note_67"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">67</span></span></a> as a +work by his uncle, but we do not know that Leonardo was +a good judge of his uncle's works, and this bas-relief was +supposed to have been executed more than fifty years +before its presentation; afterwards it came back into the +possession of the Buonarroti family, and was presented by +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page105">[pg 105]</span><a name="Pg105" id="Pg105" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>them to the city of Florence along with the house in Via +Ghibellina.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Michael Angelo, like all young artists who have had the +opportunity, drew and studied in the Brancacci Chapel of +the Church of the Carmine, containing the frescoes of +Masaccio and his followers; the result of these studies +may be seen in some of the compositions, and especially in +the draperies of the Sistine ceiling. There are two pen-drawings +in Vienna that show us the sort of work Michael +Angelo did at this time: one represents a kneeling figure, +evidently from a picture by Pesellino; the other, two +standing figures, that might be after Ghirlandaio. The +draperies have been specially studied. Another pen-drawing, +in the Louvre, is a careful study from Giotto's fresco +of the Resurrection of St. John in the Cappella Peruzzi +at Santa Croce.</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"> </div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A gloom was cast over all Italy by the death of +Lorenzo de' Medici on April 8, 1492. Michael Angelo +lost his best friend and returned to his father's house; here +he worked upon a statue of Hercules that stood in the +Strozzi Palace until the siege of Florence in 1530, when +Giovanni Battista della Palla bought it and sent it into +France as a present to the French King. It is lost.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the year 1495, whilst living with Aldovrandi at +Bologna, as Condivi tells us, Michael Angelo, for the sum +of thirty ducats, completed the drapery of a San Petronio, +begun by Nicolo di Bari on the arca or shrine of San +Domenico, and carved the very beautiful and highly +finished statuette of an angel holding a candlestick, still +to be seen there.<a id="noteref_68" name="noteref_68" href="#note_68"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">68</span></span></a></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page106">[pg 106]</span><a name="Pg106" id="Pg106" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>When Michael Angelo returned to Florence a government +had been established by Savonarola. No doubt, +like all the other citizens, the master listened to the voice +of the preacher, but we have no evidence that he was +particularly influenced by his teaching, though many of his +biographers would have us believe that Savonarola made +him Protestant, Lutheran, or what not, according to the +sect of the biographer. Michael Angelo loved the sermons +of the eloquent Frate as works of art; no doubt, if the +prophets of the Sistine could speak, they would preach +with the voice of Savonarola.</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"> </div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Michael Angelo set to work and carved a San +Giovannino for Lorenzo di Pier Francesco, a cousin of the +exiled Medici. The Berlin Museum acquired, in 1880, a +marble statue of a young St. John, which had been placed +in the palace of the Counts Gualandi Rosselmini, at Pisa, +in 1817, and was rediscovered there in 1874. It is supposed +to be this San Giovannino by Michael Angelo, though +it has nothing of the large quality of Michael Angelo's +work. Donatello has been suggested as the author, but it +has still less of the square planes and ascetic character of +the great Donato. It is a charming, almost a cloying +statue. St. John seems to find his honeycomb distinctly +sweet.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc36" id="toc36"></a><a name="pdf37" id="pdf37"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page107">[pg 107]</span><a name="Pg107" id="Pg107" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">CHAPTER II</span></h2> + +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.40em; margin-top: 2.40em"><span style="font-size: 120%">THE BACCHUS, AND THE MADONNA DELLA PIETÀ +OF SAINT PETER'S</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The story of a Cupid, carved and coloured in imitation +of the antique, is given by Condivi.<a id="noteref_69" name="noteref_69" href="#note_69"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">69</span></span></a> It was the cause of +Michael Angelo's first visit to Rome. As soon as he +reached the Eternal City he set to work at his sculpture, +as the purchase of a piece of marble mentioned in his letter +to Pier Francesco de' Medici, sent to Florence under cover +to Sandro Botticelli,<a id="noteref_70" name="noteref_70" href="#note_70"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">70</span></span></a> indicates. During the whole of this +very important visit he worked in marble. We have, +however, one record of a cartoon by him for a Saint +Francis receiving the Stigmata, to be painted by a certain +barber; but that is all. He studied the works of antique +art and imitated the finish and softness of the Hellenic +style: marbles of debased Greek workmanship abound to +this day in the Roman collections. Messer Jacopo Gallo, +a Roman gentleman and a banker, commissioned a +Bacchus, now in the Bargello at Florence, and a Cupid, said +to be the statue now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, +South Kensington. Condivi records these commissions.<a id="noteref_71" name="noteref_71" href="#note_71"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">71</span></span></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page108">[pg 108]</span><a name="Pg108" id="Pg108" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>This Bacchus is the least dignified work that Michael +Angelo ever executed. Perhaps, like a young artist +struggling to get on, he listened too much to the wishes +and suggestions of his intelligent patron. The finish and +the truth to nature of the unpleasant youth are exquisite. +The folds of the skin and the softness of the flesh are +perfectly rendered, but the work is repulsive, save for the +mischievous little Satyr who steals the grapes; he seems to +take us out into the open air, and away from the fumes of +the wine shop. Condivi calls the second statue a Cupid,<a id="noteref_72" name="noteref_72" href="#note_72"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">72</span></span></a> but +Springer points out<a id="noteref_73" name="noteref_73" href="#note_73"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">73</span></span></a> that Ulisse Aldovrandi, who saw the +statue in Messer Gallo's house at Rome, talks of an Apollo +quite naked, with a quiver at his side and an urn at his +feet. The work, Cupid or Apollo, at Kensington, is not +so finely finished as the other statues of this first Roman +period; the head is like a copy of the head of the David, +the division between the pectoral muscles is weak, and +their attachments to the breast-bone are round, regular, +and without distinction, very different from either the +naturalism of the Bacchus, the delicate truth of the Pietà, +or the dignified abstraction of the David, done very +shortly afterwards. This work at Kensington was discovered +some fifty years ago in the cellars of the Gualfonda +(Rucellai) Gardens by Professor Miliarini and +the sculptor Santarelli. The left arm was broken, the +right hand damaged, and the hair unfinished, as may be +seen to-day; Santarelli restored the arm. The statue is +like the work of a poor imitator. A work by Michael +Angelo may easily have been destroyed in troublous +times, but can never have been lost and forgotten. +He has always had lovers in every age; unlike the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page109">[pg 109]</span><a name="Pg109" id="Pg109" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>primitives and the quattrocentisti, he has never been out +of fashion.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Whilst Michael Angelo was working away in Rome +he was much troubled by family affairs in Florence. After +the expulsion of the Medici in 1495, Lodovico lost his +post at the Customs, and his three younger sons appear to +have been put into trade. Buonarroto, who was the only +sensible one left at home, and dearly loved by Michael +Angelo, was born in 1477; he was sent to serve in the +Strozzi cloth warehouse in the Porta Rossa. All the noble +families of Florence practised some trade, in order that +they might share in the Government. Giovan Simone, +another brother, born in 1479, led a vagabond life until he +joined Buonarroto in a cloth business that was bought for +them by Michael Angelo. Sigismondo, born in 1481, was +a soldier. At the age of forty he settled down on the +small paternal farm at Settignano, and became a mere +peasant, very much to the annoyance and chagrin of his +famous brother, Michael Angelo, who spent his earnings +for the advantage of his brothers, and the advancement of +his family, with a kindness and generosity as beautiful as it +is rare. Francesca, the mother of Michael Angelo and +of the other sons of Lodovico Buonarroti, was married to +him in 1472. When she died is not known, but Lodovico +married his second wife Lucrezia in 1485. She died childless +in 1497, and was buried upon July 9 in the Church of +Santa Croce.</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"> </div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the year 1497 Buonarroto visited Rome, and informed +Michael Angelo, the only hope of the family, of their +pecuniary troubles. Michael Angelo wrote kindly to his +father:</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page110">[pg 110]</span><a name="Pg110" id="Pg110" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Domino Lodovico Buonarroti</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, </span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">in Florence</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"In the name of God, the 19th day of August, 1497.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Dearest Father</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, &c.—Bonarroto arrived on Friday; +as soon as I knew of it I went to seek him at the inn, and +he told me by word of mouth how you are doing, and +informed me that Consiglio, the mercer, annoys you very +much, and will not, by any means, come to an agreement, +and that he wishes to have you arrested. I tell you that +you must satisfy him and pay him some ducats on account; +and whatever you agree to pay him for the balance, send +and tell me, and I will send it to you, if you have it not; +although I have but little myself, as I have told you, I +will contrive to borrow it, so that you need not take money +out of the Monte,</span><a id="noteref_74" name="noteref_74" href="#note_74"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">74</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 90%"> as Bonarroto says. Do not wonder +that I have sometimes written irritably, for I often get +very angry, owing to the many annoyances that happen to +one away from his home.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"I had an order to do a work for Piero de' Medici and +bought the marble; but I never began it because he did +not do as he had promised, so I stayed at home and +carved a figure for my pleasure. I bought a piece of +marble for five ducats; it was not good; the money was +thrown away. Afterwards I bought another piece, another +five ducats, and worked at it for my pleasure; so you must +believe that I also have expenses and troubles, and you +must make allowances. I will send you the money, though +I should have to sell myself into slavery.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"Buonarroto arrived in safety and has returned to his +inn; he has a room; he is all right and lacks nothing for +</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page111">[pg 111]</span><a name="Pg111" id="Pg111" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">as long as he likes to stay. I have no accommodation for +him to stay with me, because I am living in another's house. +It suffices that I do not let him want for anything. Well, +as I hope you are.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Michael Angelo</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, in Rome."</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">(In the hand of Lodovico.)</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"He says he will help me to pay Consiglio."</span><a id="noteref_75" name="noteref_75" href="#note_75"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">75</span></span></a></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Nevertheless, Milanesi tells us in a note, Lodovico +settled with Consiglio, to whom he owed ninety gold florins, +in the way Michael Angelo did not approve and after +going to law about it. A letter of Lodovico's refers to +the kindness of Michael Angelo in establishing his brothers +in the cloth business. It is dated December 19, 1500. "... +and more, I know that you have advanced money, and the +love you have for your brothers; it is a great consolation +to me. About this matter of the money with which you +wish to set up Buonarroto and Giansimone in a shop, I +have hunted and I am still hunting, but as yet I have not +found anything to please me. True it is I have my hands +on a good thing, but it is necessary to keep one's eyes +open and to take care not to get into difficulties; I want +to go slowly and with good counsel, and I will tell you all +about it day by day. Buonarroto tells me how you live +yonder, very economically, or rather penuriously; economy +is good, but penuriousness is evil, for it is a vice displeasing +to God and man, and, moreover, it is bad for the body and +soul. Whilst you are young you will be able to bear these +hardships for a time, but when the strength of youth fails +you, disease and infirmities will develop, for they are +engendered by hardship, mean living, and penurious +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page112">[pg 112]</span><a name="Pg112" id="Pg112" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>habits. As I said, economy is good. But, above all, do +not be penurious; live moderately and do not stint yourself; +above all things avoid hardships, because in your art, +if you fall ill (which God forbid), you are a lost man; +above all things have a care of your head, keep it moderately +warm, and never wash; have yourself rubbed down, but +never wash. Buonarroto also tells me that you have a +swelling on your side; it comes from hardship or fatigue, +or from eating something bad and windy, or suffering the +feet to be cold or damp. I have had one myself, and it +still troubles me when I eat windy food, or when I endure +cold or such like things. Our Francesco formerly had one, +too, and also Gismondo similarly. Be careful about it +because it is dangerous."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The name of Michael Angelo's good friend, Jacopo +Gallo, appears in the agreement drawn up concerning +the crowning work of this the first Roman period, +the Pietà, called the Madonna della Febbre, first placed in +the Chapel of Santa Petronilla, and now in the Chapel of +Santa Maria della Febbre, on the right of the entrance +to St. Peters, in Rome. The commission for this work +was given by the Cardinal Jean de la Grostaye de Villiers +François, Abbot of St. Denis, called in Italy Cardinal di +San Dionigi. It is dated August 26, 1498.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image04" id="image04" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig38" id="fig38"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image04.png" width="480" height="613" alt="Image #4" title="THE MADONNA BELLA PIETÀ" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">THE MADONNA BELLA PIETÀ</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">SAINT PETER'S, ROME<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission, of the Fratelli Alinari, Florence</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"Be it known and manifest to whoso shall read the +ensuing document, how the Most Reverend Cardinal of +San Dionigi has agreed with the master, Michael Angelo, +sculptor of Florence, that the said master shall make a Pietà +of marble at his own cost; that is, a Virgin Mary clothed, +with the dead Christ in her arms, of the size of a proper +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page113">[pg 113]</span><a name="Pg113" id="Pg113" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>man, for the price of four hundred and fifty golden Papal +ducats, within the term of one year from the day of the +beginning of the work" (the Cardinal agrees to pay certain +sums in advance). The contract concludes: "And I, Jacopo +Gallo, promise to his Most Reverend Monsignore that the +said Michael Angelo will finish the said work within one +year, and that it shall be the most beautiful work in +marble which Rome to-day can show, and that no master +of our days shall be able to produce a better. And +similarly I promise the said Michael Angelo that the Most +Reverend Cardinal will disburse the payments as written +above; and in good faith, I, Jacopo Gallo, have made the +present writing with my own hand, according to date of +year, month, and day, as above."<a id="noteref_76" name="noteref_76" href="#note_76"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">76</span></span></a></p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"> </div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Jacopo's boast and promise were justified, for even +now there is no finer complete work of sculpture in the +whole of Rome than the Pietà at St. Peter's. It is said +that Michael Angelo overheard certain Lombards ascribe +the Pietà to their own sculptor, Cristoforo Solari, called +"Il Gobbo." He therefore carved his name upon the +belt of the Madonna's robe. He never signed any other +work. Nothing closes the great period of the fifteenth +century so fitly as the Pietà of Michael Angelo, prophesying +at the same time the power of the art of the +sixteenth.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc39" id="toc39"></a><a name="pdf40" id="pdf40"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page114">[pg 114]</span><a name="Pg114" id="Pg114" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">CHAPTER III</span></h2> + +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.40em; margin-top: 2.40em"><span style="font-size: 120%">THE DAVID AND THE CARTOON OF PISA</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Family affairs recalled Michael Angelo to Florence in the +spring of 1501. He returned full of honours gained +in Rome, and took up his position as the first sculptor +of the day. His next commission came from Cardinal +Francesco Piccolomini, afterwards Pope Pius III. A contract +was signed on June 5, 1501, by which Michael +Angelo agreed to complete some fifteen statues of male +saints within the time of three years, for the Piccolomini +Chapel, in the Duomo of Siena. A Saint Francis was +begun by Piero Torrigiano, and may have been finished +by Michael Angelo. The rest of the four works that were +the outcome of this commission can have had nothing to +do with the chisel of the sculptor of the Madonna della +Febbre and the David. Michael Angelo must have +merely contracted to supply them, as the master sculptor +of a sculptor's yard, possibly furnishing the designs himself. +There is a drawing at the British Museum of a +bearded saint, cowled and holding a book in his left hand, +which may be a design for one of these inferior works.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image05" id="image05" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig41" id="fig41"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image05.png" width="480" height="926" alt="Image #5" title="DAVID" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">DAVID</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">THE ACADEMY, FLORENCE<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission of the Fratelli Alinari Florence</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image06" id="image06" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig42" id="fig42"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image06.png" width="480" height="681" alt="Image #6" title="DAVID" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">DAVID</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">IN THE PIAZZA<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission of the Fratelli Alinari, Florence</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image07" id="image07" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig43" id="fig43"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image07.png" width="480" height="1093" alt="Image #7" title="SAINT MATTHEW" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">SAINT MATTHEW</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">THE COURT OF THE ACADEMY, FLORENCE<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission of the Fratelli Alinari, Florence</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In August of the same year, 1501, Michael Angelo +began the colossal statue of David, that used to stand in +the Piazza and is now in the Academy at Florence. The +first contract for this work, signed between Michael +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page115">[pg 115]</span><a name="Pg115" id="Pg115" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Angelo, the Arte della Lana, and the Opera del Duomo, +is dated August 16, 1501. It states "That the worthy +master, Michael Angelo, son of Lodovico Bonarroti, citizen +of Florence, has been chosen to fashion, complete, and +perfectly finish the male statue, already rough hewn and +called the giant, of nine cubits in height,<a id="noteref_77" name="noteref_77" href="#note_77"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">77</span></span></a> now existing in +the workshop of the Cathedral, badly blocked out afore-time +by Master Agostino,<a id="noteref_78" name="noteref_78" href="#note_78"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">78</span></span></a> of Florence. The work shall +be completed within the term of the next ensuing two +years, dating from September, at a salary of six golden +florins<a id="noteref_79" name="noteref_79" href="#note_79"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">79</span></span></a> per month; and whatever is needful for the +accomplishment of this task, as workmen, wood, &c., which +he may require, shall be supplied him by the said Operai; +and when the said statue is finished, the Consuls and Operai, +who shall be in office, shall estimate whether he deserve a +larger recompense, and this shall be left to their consciences." +Michael Angelo began to work in a wooden +shed, erected for that purpose near the Cathedral, on +Monday morning, September 13, 1501, and the "David" +is said to be almost entirely finished in a note, dated +January 25, 1503,<a id="noteref_80" name="noteref_80" href="#note_80"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">80</span></span></a> when a solemn council of the most +important artists, then resident in Florence, met at the +Opera del Duomo to consider where the statue should be +placed. What an original way of deciding æsthetic questions! +They came to the admirable conclusion that the +choice of the site should be left to Michael Angelo. +Amongst those who spoke at the meeting were Francesco +Monciatto, a wood carver, who suggested that the statue +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page116">[pg 116]</span><a name="Pg116" id="Pg116" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>should be erected in front of the Duomo, where the block +was originally meant to be set up; he was supported by +the painters Cosimo Rosselli and Sandro Botticelli. Giuliano +da San Gallo proposed to place it under the Loggia +dei Lanzi, because "the imperfection of the marble, which +is softened by exposure to the air, renders the durability +of the statue doubtful." Messer Angelo de Lorenzo Manfidi +(second herald) objected because it would break the +order of certain ceremonies held in the Loggia. Leonardo +da Vinci followed San Gallo; he did not think it would +injure the ceremonies. Salvestro, a jeweller, and Filippino +Lippi supported Piero di Cosimo, who proposed that the +precise spot should be left to the sculptor who made it, +"as he will know better how it should be." Michael +Angelo elected to have his David set up on the steps of +the Palazzo Vecchio, on the right side of the entrance. Its +effect in that position may be well seen, appropriately +enough, in a picture by the same Piero di Cosimo (No. 895), +in the National Gallery, where the Piazza della Signoria +forms the background to a portrait of a man in armour. +Il Cronaca, Antonio da San Gallo, Baccio d'Agnolo, Bernardo +della Cecca, and Michael Angelo were associated +in the task of transporting the giant from the workshop +near the Duomo to the Piazza della Signoria. It was +encased in planks and suspended upright from great beams. +"On May 14, 1504, the marble giant was dragged from +the Opera. It came out at twenty-four o'clock, and they +broke the wall above the door enough to let it pass. +That night some stones were thrown at the Colossus with +intent to injure it; a watch had to be set over it at night, +and it made way very slowly, bound as it was upright, +suspended so that the feet were off the ground by enormous +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page117">[pg 117]</span><a name="Pg117" id="Pg117" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>beams with much ingenuity. It took four days to +reach the Piazza, arriving on the 18th at the hour of twelve. +More than forty men were employed to make it go, and +there were fourteen logs to go beneath it, which were +changed from hand to hand. Afterwards they worked +until June 8, 1504, to place it on a pedestal where the +Judith used to stand. The Judith was removed and set +upon the ground within the palace. The said giant was the +work of Michael Angelo Buonarroti."<a id="noteref_81" name="noteref_81" href="#note_81"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">81</span></span></a> The great marble +David stood in the Piazza three hundred and sixty-nine +years; it was removed to the hall of the Accademia delle +Belle Arti in 1873 for its better preservation. It has suffered +very little from its exposure in the fine air of Florence, but +the left arm was broken by a huge stone thrown during the +tumults of 1527. Giorgio Vasari and his friend Cecchino +Salviati collected the broken pieces and brought them to +the house of Michael Angelo Salviati, father of Cecchino. +They were carefully put together and restored to the +statue in 1543. The David was the first work by Michael +Angelo that displayed the awe-inspiring quality known as +his <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Terribilità</span></span>; from the fierce frown of the brow to the +sharp, strained forms of the feet and toes there is an +expression of strenuous force struggling against an almost +overwhelming power. The force of the David may succeed +against Goliath; but in Michael Angelo's later works the +struggle always appears to be a hopeless one, nobly as his +Titans fight against fate and omnipotence. The face of +the David is a development of the Saint George of Or +San Michele, by Donatello, and the figure is of the same +type, only this triumphant boy of Michael Angelo's shows +a more exact study of the antique than the naturalistic +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page118">[pg 118]</span><a name="Pg118" id="Pg118" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>work of his master. In Donatello the planes are given as +flat, and their junctions are sharp and hard; in Michael +Angelo they are carefully rounded and finished with the +grace of the antique and of life. The details of the +head, although so high up, are so absolutely perfect that +the separate features have been, and are still, the models +set before all students of art when they first begin to +study the human figure, and they are known as <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">the</span></span> +nose, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">the</span></span> eye, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">the</span></span> ear, and <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">the</span></span> mouth. We have noticed +that the young student is more interested in his work +when he is told that they are the features of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">the</span></span> David. +Michael Angelo carved his giant without modelling a full-size +clay figure first, but with the guidance of drawings +and small wax models about eighteen inches high only, +carving the figure out of the block in the way that is so +well seen in the unfinished Saint Matthew in the court of +the Accademia delle Belle Arti, in Florence. There are +two small wax models of the David in the Casa Buonarroti +at Florence, said to be Michael Angelo's designs for this +figure, but they are of very doubtful authority. Later in +his life he is said to have worked from full-sized models, as +Benvenuto Cellini tells us in his <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Trattati dell' Oreficeria</span></span>, &c.<a id="noteref_82" name="noteref_82" href="#note_82"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">82</span></span></a> +Vasari tells the story of how Michael Angelo contented +the Gonfaloniere and silenced his criticism of the David: +"While still surrounded by the scaffolding Pier Soderini +inspected the statue, which pleased him immensely, and +when Michael Angelo was re-touching it in parts, Soderini +said to him that the nose appeared to him too big. +Michael Angelo, knowing that the Gonfaloniere was close +under the statue and that from this point of view the +truth was not to be discerned, mounted the scaffolding, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page119">[pg 119]</span><a name="Pg119" id="Pg119" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>which was as high as the shoulder of the giant, and +quickly took a chisel in his left hand with a little of the +marble dust from the platform and began to let fall a +little of it at each touch of the tool, but he did not alter +the nose from what it was before; then he looked down to +the Gonfaloniere, who stood watching below: 'Look at it +now,' said Michael Angelo. 'I like it better. You have +given it life,' said the Gonfaloniere," rubbing the dust out +of his eyes.</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"> </div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">On August 12, 1502, Michael Angelo undertook +another commission for the Republic—another giant +David. This time it was to be in bronze, two cubits and +a quarter in height; in the casting he was to be assisted +by Benedetto da Rovezzano. It has been suggested that +the pen and ink drawing in the Louvre is a design for this +second David, but the drawing of an arm on the same +sheet is so like the right arm of the first David that it is +more probably an early idea for the first David, in which +we see that Michael Angelo's design needed more room than +the cramped block of marble allowed; it makes us wonder +the more at the marvellous freedom of action that he +managed to get out of the cramped stone. The bronze +David was intended for the French statesman, Pierre de +Rohan, Maréchal de Gié, as a present from the Florentine +Republic, but before it was finished the Maréchal fell into +disgrace and could be of no further use to the Florentines. +The Signory therefore determined to send the bronze to +Florimond Robertet, Secretary of Finance to the French +King. A minute of the Signory dated November 6, 1508, +informs us that the bronze David, weighing about 800 +pounds, had been "packed in the name of God," and sent +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page120">[pg 120]</span><a name="Pg120" id="Pg120" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>to Signa on its way to Leghorn. Florimond Robertet +placed it in the courtyard of his château of Bury, near +Blois. It remained there for more than a hundred years, +then it was removed to the château of Villeroy, and +disappeared no one knows whither.</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"> </div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">On April 24, 1503, the Consuls of the Arte della +Lana and the Operai of the Duomo ordered Michael +Angelo to carve out of Carrara marble twelve Apostles, +each four and a quarter cubits high, to be placed inside +the church. One was to be finished each year, the Operai +paying all expenses, including the cost of living for the +sculptor and his assistants, and paying him two golden +florins a month. They built a house and workshops for +him in the Borgo Pinti; it was designed by Il Cronaca. +Michael Angelo lived there rent free until it was evident +that the contract could not be carried out. He then hired +it on a lease, but on June 15, 1508, the lease of the house +was transferred to Sigismondo Martelli. The St. Matthew, +now in the courtyard of the Accademia delle Belle Arti, in +Florence, is the only work we know of resulting from this +commission. The apostle is just emerging from the +marble, and shows us Michael Angelo's method of work. +Vasari says: "At this time he also began a statue in +marble of San Matteo in the works of Santa Maria del +Fiore, which, though but roughly hewn, shows his perfections, +and teaches sculptors how to carve figures from the +stone without maiming them, always gaining ground by +cutting away the waste stone, and being able to draw back +or alter in case of need." The deep chisel marks in the +stone are sometimes as much as four inches long, and their +directions indicate that Michael Angelo worked equally well +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page121">[pg 121]</span><a name="Pg121" id="Pg121" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>with either hand, a fact confirmed by Raffaello de Montelupo +in his "Autobiographie."<a id="noteref_83" name="noteref_83" href="#note_83"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">83</span></span></a> "Here I may mention +that I am in the habit of drawing with my left hand, and +that once, at Rome, while I was sketching the arch of +Trajan from the Colosseum, Michael Angelo and Sebastiano +del Piombo, both of whom were naturally left-handed +(although they did not work with the left hand excepting +when they wished to use great strength), stopped to see +me, and expressed great wonder."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image08" id="image08" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig44" id="fig44"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image08.png" width="480" height="600" alt="Image #8" title="THE MADONNA AND CHILD, WITH THE CHILD SAINT JOHN" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">THE MADONNA AND CHILD, WITH THE CHILD SAINT JOHN</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">THE BARGELLO, FLORENCE<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission of the Fratelli Alinari, Florence</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Florentine love of bas-relief explains to some +extent their extreme devotion to the tondo, or circular +shape, in paintings and in sculptures. According to Vasari, +it was at this time that Michael Angelo carved two tondi: +one for Bartolommeo Pitti, now in the Bargello at Florence, +and the other for Taddeo Taddei, now at Burlington House, +in the Diploma Gallery of the Royal Academy, London. +It was acquired by Sir George Beaumont, and is the most +valuable work the Academy possesses. If it were in an +out-of-the-way palace in Florence many of us would see it +more frequently than we do now, although we have only +to climb a few steps to visit this glorious work any day we +are in Piccadilly. Both of these reliefs represent the +Madonna and Child, with the child St. John. The one +in the Bargello appears to be the earlier; the composition +is very beautiful and simple, and fills the circular space +admirably. The Madonna is seated facing the spectator, +and looks out full towards him with an enigmatical expression +on her proud features; the Child stands beside +her, His elbow on her knee, as in the Bruges Madonna. +The St. John is only roughly cut, but the movement and +forms are so well realised under the marble that one does +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page122">[pg 122]</span><a name="Pg122" id="Pg122" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>not wish for any further finish. In the Royal Academy +tondo the Madonna is seated more to the side of the circle, +and is in profile; the Child reclines upon her knee, clinging +to her arm, startled but interested by the little bird +St. John has brought to show Him (a favourite motive +with Italian artists). The head and shoulders of the +Madonna and the torso of the Child Jesus are the only +parts that are near completion, yet the whole group is so +much there that we do not ask for another touch; in fact, +the works of Michael Angelo were finished from the very +first strokes. The rough charcoal drawing upon the block +of marble, could we see it, would have been complete to us, +only Michael Angelo could add anything to it; and so it +is with every fragment of stone or other piece of work by +his hand, from the lightest charcoal drawing to the great +marble fragments in the grotto of the Boboli Gardens. +They are complete to us; the thing he thought is there, +and the art is there, and we are satisfied.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image09" id="image09" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig45" id="fig45"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image09.png" width="480" height="473" alt="Image #9" title="THE HOLY FAMILY" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">THE HOLY FAMILY</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">THE UFFIZI, FLORENCE<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">Reproduced by permission from a photograph by Sig. D. Anderson, Rome</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Another tondo executed about this time is the painting +now in the Uffizi, the only easel picture known with +certainty to be by the hand of Michael Angelo. This +Holy Family, with naked shepherds in the background, +was painted for Angelo Doni, the same man whose portrait +was painted by Raphael. Vasari says that Michael Angelo +asked seventy ducats for the work, but that Doni only +offered forty when the picture was delivered. Michael +Angelo sent word that he must pay a hundred or send +back the picture. Doni offered the original seventy; but +Michael Angelo replied that if he was bent on bargaining, +he should not pay less than one hundred and forty. In +this composition the Madonna is seated upon the ground, +forming a pyramid, of which the heads of Joseph and the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page123">[pg 123]</span><a name="Pg123" id="Pg123" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Child form the apex; her lithe and strong form has a +Greek loveliness as she turns quickly and receives the +beautiful Child on to her shoulder from the arms of +Joseph. Never in any painting have the drawing and +modelling of the human figure been so perfectly executed +as in the figure of this Child and the arms of the Madonna; +the hands and feet are modelled with the delicacy of a +Flemish miniature, and at the same time have a beauty +and suavity of modelling and a magnificent choice of line +altogether Italian. On either side of the central triangle +the spaces between it and the circumference of the tondo +are filled by the introduction of the infant St. John +and some nude shepherds; the landscape background is +austere as the mountain tops of some primeval world +where such titanic beings as these of Michael Angelo's +alone could dwell. The old painters loved to decorate +their Madonna pictures with all the most beautiful things +they could think of, or most loved. The Florentines with +fair and pleasant gardens; the Umbrians with spacious +colonnades, distant landscapes, and rare skies; the Venetians +with fruits and garlands of foliage and fruit, and even +vegetables, if they had a particular regard for them, as +Crivelli had for the cucumber. One painter only before +this time decorated his pictures with nude human figures, +Luca Signorelli. Michael Angelo may have seen a +Madonna of his, with two nude figures in the background, +executed for Lorenzo de' Medici, and now hung in the +Gallery of the Uffizi. Michael Angelo, who knew the +beauty of the human form better than any one, would +never be content to decorate his tondo with any less +beautiful offering after seeing this picture by Signorelli. +The tondo form was a favourite one with Signorelli. His +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page124">[pg 124]</span><a name="Pg124" id="Pg124" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>two pictures of this shape in Florence perhaps helped +Michael Angelo in the three compositions we have been +considering; and this is the only debt Michael Angelo owes +to the Umbrian painter. Their way of looking at the nude +and their ideals of its beauty are so absolutely different, +the one from the other, that possibly the Florentine could +hardly bear to look at the work of the Umbrian.</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"> </div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image10" id="image10" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig46" id="fig46"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image10.png" width="480" height="284" alt="Image #10" title="THE CARTOON OF PISA" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">THE CARTOON OF PISA</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">FROM THE MONOCHROME AT HOLKHAM HALL<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission of the Earl of Leicester</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In August 1504, Michael Angelo was commissioned +to prepare cartoons for the decoration of a wall in the +Sala del Gran Consiglio in the Palazzo Vecchio, opposite +the wall for which Leonardo da Vinci was already preparing +designs. Michael Angelo had a workshop given +him in the Hospital of the Dyers at San Onofrio, under +the date October 31, 1504; a minute of expenditure shows +that paper for the cartoon was provided. Leonardo's +design was the famous "Fight for the Standard." Michael +Angelo chose an episode from the war with Pisa, when, +on July 28, 1364, a band of four hundred Florentines +were surprised bathing in the Arno by Sir John Hawkwood +(Giovanni Acuto) and his cavalry, then in the service of +the Pisans, a subject that enabled Michael Angelo to +express his delight in the beauty of the human form, and +his power of drawing and foreshortening the naked limbs +of the bathers as they hurry out of the river and don their +armour at the sound of the alarm. This great central +work of Michael Angelo's prime has disappeared, and we +must be very careful in studying it to allow for the +weakness of the work of the copyists and engravers +who preserved what little record of it is left for us, +especially in the drawing of the nude. If we compare +the vault of the Sistine Chapel with the contemporary +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page125">[pg 125]</span><a name="Pg125" id="Pg125" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>engravings we shall be able to estimate the enormous +difference between the cartoon, which may have been the +greatest work of art produced in Italy, and the copies of +it that exist. The most complete copy of the cartoon +is the monochrome painting belonging to the Earl of +Leicester, at Holkham Hall. There is a sketch of the +whole composition in the Albertina Gallery at Vienna, and +the line engraving by Marc Antonio Raimondi of three +principal figures with a foolish Italian rendering of a +German engraved landscape in the background, utterly +destroying what little Michael Angelesque dignity the +engraver was able to get into the figures, with his poor +knowledge of the nude. The best remnants we have are +some few of Michael Angelo's own studies from the nude, +done especially for this composition; they are full of the +power, vigour, and naturalism peculiar to this period, rude +forms hacked out of the paper with a broad pen, altered +with charcoal, chalk, white paint, or anything handy and +effective; from them we must try and imagine the power, +breadth and dignity of the great composition. The work +was done upon ordinary paper, stretched over canvas or +linen fixed on a wooden frame, like the few cartoons by +the great masters that have come down to us. The outlines +were usually pricked, and when finished the cartoon was +cut into convenient sizes for pouncing on the wall or other +foundation upon which the picture was to be painted, +unless the artist took the precaution of putting a plain +piece of paper under the original drawing and pricking +both together and transferring the outlines by the aid of +the second sheet. These cut-up cartoons became the +property of the whole workshop, and were used by the +pupils when they wished. No doubt the roughness of +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page126">[pg 126]</span><a name="Pg126" id="Pg126" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>this treatment soon destroyed many of them. Vasari, +who cannot have seen the Cartoon of Pisa, gives us a +long, enthusiastic description of it, ending with some +helpful notes as to the materials with which it was drawn, +and an account of its effect upon contemporary artists. +He continues: "In addition, you discovered groups of +figures sketched in various methods, some outlined with +charcoal, some shaded with lines, some rubbed in, some +heightened with white-lead, the master having sought to +prove his empire over all materials of draughtsmanship.<a id="noteref_84" name="noteref_84" href="#note_84"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">84</span></span></a> +The craftsmen of design remained therewith astonished +and dumbfounded, recognising the fullest reaches of their +art revealed to them by this unrivalled masterpiece. +Those who examined the forms I have described, painters +who inspected and compared them with works hardly less +divine, affirm that never in the history of human achievement +was any product of man's brain seen like to them in +mere supremacy. And certainly we have the right to +believe this; for when the cartoon was finished and carried +to the hall of the Pope, amid the acclamation of all +artists and to the exceeding fame of Michael Angelo, +the students who made drawings from it, as happened +with foreigners and natives through many years in +Florence, became men of mark in several branches. +This is obvious, for Aristotele da San Gallo worked +there, as did Ridolfo Grillandaio, Rafael Santio da Urbino, +Francesco Granaccio, Baccio Bandinelli, and Alonso +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page127">[pg 127]</span><a name="Pg127" id="Pg127" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Berugetta, the Spaniard; they were followed by Andrea +del Sarto, il Franciabigio, Jacomo Sansovino, il Rosso, +Maturino, Lorenzetto, Tribolo (then a boy), Jacomo da +Puntormo, and Pierin del Vaga, all of them first-rate +masters of the Florentine school."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Benvenuto Cellini's account is important, for he himself +copied the cartoon in 1513 just before it disappeared. +He says: "Michael Angelo portrayed a number of foot +soldiers, who, the season being summer, had gone to bathe +in the Arno. He drew them at the moment the alarm is +sounded, and the men, all naked, rush to arms. So +splendid is their action, that nothing survives of ancient +or of modern art which touches the same lofty point of +excellence; and, as I have already said, the design of the +great Leonardo was itself most admirably beautiful. +These two cartoons stood, one in the Palace of the +Medici, the other in the hall of the Pope. So long as +they remained intact they were the school of the world. +Though the divine Michael Angelo in later life finished +that great chapel of Pope Julius, he never rose half-way +to the same pitch of power; his genius never afterwards +attained to the force of those first studies."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">These years spent under the shadow of the Duomo, +away from which no Florentine is happy, working at his +sculptures and drawings, were probably some of the +happiest years of Michael Angelo's whole life.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc47" id="toc47"></a><a name="pdf48" id="pdf48"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page128">[pg 128]</span><a name="Pg128" id="Pg128" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">CHAPTER IV</span></h2> + +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.40em; margin-top: 2.40em"><span style="font-size: 120%">THE FIRST ACT OF THE TRAGEDY OF THE TOMB</span></h2> + + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image11" id="image11" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig49" id="fig49"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image11.png" width="480" height="795" alt="Image #11" title="MOSES" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">MOSES</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">THE TOMB OF JULIUS II. SAN PIETRO IN VINCOLI, ROME<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission of Sig. Giacomo Brogi, Florence</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The cartoon, The Apostles for the Duomo, and all these +works, had to be left unfinished, as Michael Angelo was +summoned to Rome in the beginning of 1505 by Pope +Julius II. From this period Michael Angelo was the +servant, often the unwilling servant, of the Popes (his +Medusa as he said). Much of his time was wasted owing +to the different dispositions and likings of his patrons, +yet we must be thankful to them for the opportunities +they gave him in their great undertakings. Now began +what Condivi called "The Tragedy of the Tomb"; the +phrase is so apt that we imagine he must have got it from +Michael Angelo himself. Julius appears to have appreciated +his artist from the first; both were what the +Italians call <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">uomini terribili</span></span>, men whose brains worked with +furious energy, grand and formidable in their imaginations. +Michael Angelo was packed off to Carrara for +marble as soon as his design was approved. There is a +contract signed by him and two shipowners of Lavagna, +dated November 18, 1505. Thirty-four cartloads of marble +were then ready for shipment, together with two blocked-out +figures. He probably left Carrara soon afterwards, +returning to Rome by way of Florence. The only authoritative +account of the original project of the Tomb is that +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page129">[pg 129]</span><a name="Pg129" id="Pg129" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>of Condivi; Vasari's account was not published until his +second edition in 1558. The architectural drawings, said +to be designs for this Tomb, are of doubtful authenticity; +most of them are certainly not by Michael Angelo. We +must therefore study Condivi, who probably got the details +from Michael Angelo himself, though he, too, must have +had great difficulty in recalling the ideas of forty-eight +years ago.<a id="noteref_85" name="noteref_85" href="#note_85"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">85</span></span></a> The plans for the new church of St. Peter's, +the largest church in Christendom, were altered to embrace +this huge monument, but a transept of the little church of +San Pietro in Vincoli gave ample space for the final +scheme, when it was set up in 1545. The only statues we +know belonging to it by Michael Angelo are the Moses and +the two bound Slaves in the Louvre; the other six statues +in San Pietro in Vincoli were finished by assistants. The +unfinished marble figures so unworthily housed in the +stupid rock-work grotto of the Boboli Gardens, Florence, +may have been for the Tomb, although their measurements +do not agree with the Slaves of the Louvre. How well +these superlative fragments would look in the corners of +the Loggia dei Lanzi, or in the courtyard of the Bargello. +In the Bargello two groups, the Victory and the Dying +Adonis, may have been originally intended for the Tomb, +but we believe they have been finished and considerably +altered by some later workman; possibly they were only +blocked out by Michael Angelo. The movement of +the figure and the position of the head have been altered +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page130">[pg 130]</span><a name="Pg130" id="Pg130" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>in the Victory, and the whole subject of the Adonis has +been changed by the introduction of the insignificant +boar. Vasari tells us that in his time there were, besides +the Moses, Victory, and two Slaves, eight figures blocked +out by Michael Angelo at Rome, and five at Florence; +possibly these five at Florence were the four in the Boboli +Gardens and an earlier state of the Adonis.</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"> </div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After his flight from Rome in 1506 Michael Angelo +had some six months at Florence, working on his cartoon +in the workshop at the Spedale dei Tintori. When he +went to Julius at Bologna in November it was finished, +and was exhibited in the Sala del Papa at Santa Maria +Novella. All this time Bramante and his set had the +Pope's ear in Rome. He has been accused of suggesting +that Michael Angelo should paint the vault of the Sistine +Chapel, in the hope that he would ignominiously fail in +such an unusual task; but we do not think we can thank +Bramante even for that indirect service, for Michael +Angelo's friend, Pietro Rosselli, wrote on May 6, 1506:—</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image12" id="image12" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig50" id="fig50"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image12.png" width="480" height="583" alt="Image #12" title="TWO OF THE UNFINISHED MARBLE STATUES IN THE GROTTO OF THE BOBOLI GARDENS, FLORENCE" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">TWO OF THE UNFINISHED MARBLE STATUES IN THE GROTTO OF THE +BOBOLI GARDENS, FLORENCE</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission of the Fratelli Alinari, Florence</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"Dearest in place of a brother, after salutations and +kind regards:—I inform you how on Saturday evening, +when the Pope was at supper, I showed him certain designs +that Bramante and I had to examine. When the Pope +had supped and I had showed them to him, he sent for +Bramante and said to him: 'Sangallo goes to Florence +and will bring Michael Angelo back with him.' Bramante +replied to the Pope, and said: 'Holy Father, he will do +no such thing, because I know Michael Angelo well +enough, and he has told me many a time that he will +not undertake the Chapel, which you wanted to put upon +him; and that he intended to apply himself to sculpture +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page131">[pg 131]</span><a name="Pg131" id="Pg131" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>all the time and not to painting.' And he said: 'Holy +Father, I believe that he has not courage enough for it, +because he has not painted many figures, and especially +as these will be high up and foreshortened; and that is +quite another thing to painting on the ground.' Then the +Pope replied, and said: 'If he does not come he will do +me wrong, so I think he will return anyhow.' Upon this +I up and abused him soundly there in the presence of the +Pope; and said what I believe you would have said for +me, so that he did not know what to reply, and he +seemed to think he had made a mistake. And I said +further: 'Holy Father, he has never spoken to Michael +Angelo, and as to what he has now told you, if it be +true may you cut my head off, for he never did speak +to Michael Angelo; and I believe he will return by all +means, whenever your Holiness desires.' And so the thing +ended. I have nothing more to tell you. God keep you +from harm. If I can do anything for you let me know; +I will do it willingly. Remember me to Simone il Pollaiuolo."<a id="noteref_86" name="noteref_86" href="#note_86"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">86</span></span></a></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bramante was not far wrong in what he said about +vault painting. He alluded to the method of foreshortening +employed by his fellow countryman, Melozzo da Forli, +by which he made figures painted on domes and vaults +look as if they were suspended in the air really above the +spectators, and not simply a pattern painted on the surface +of the plaster; this method was perfected by Correggio, +but was never practised successfully by a Florentine.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc51" id="toc51"></a><a name="pdf52" id="pdf52"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page132">[pg 132]</span><a name="Pg132" id="Pg132" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">CHAPTER V</span></h2> + +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.40em; margin-top: 2.40em"><span style="font-size: 120%">THE COLOSSAL BRONZE FOR THE FAÇADE OF +SAN PETRONIO</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Pope entered Bologna in triumph on November 11, +1506, after the marvellous campaign by which he restored +two rich provinces to the Church with only five hundred men-at-arms +and his twenty-four Cardinals. Less than ten days +afterwards he inquired for his artist. The Cardinal of +Pavia wrote an autograph letter to the Signory of Florence +on the 21st, urgently requesting that they would despatch +Michael Angelo immediately to that town, inasmuch as the +Pope was impatient for his arrival, and wanted to employ +him on important works. On November 27 Soderini +wrote to the Cardinal of Pavia introducing Michael Angelo +and praising the cartoon the artist had to leave unpainted, +and to the Cardinal of Volterra more formally as follows:—</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"The bearer will be Michael Angelo, the sculptor, +whom we send to please and satisfy his Holiness our Lord. +We certify your Lordship that he is a worthy young man, +and in his own art without a peer in Italy; perhaps also in +the universe. We cannot recommend him too highly. He +is of such a nature, that with good words and kindness one +can make him do anything. Show him love and show him +kindness, and he will do things that will make all who see +</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page133">[pg 133]</span><a name="Pg133" id="Pg133" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">them wonder. We inform your Lordship that he has +begun a story for the Republic which will be admirable, +and also XII Apostles, each 4-1/2 to 5 braccia high, which +will be remarkable. We recommend him to your lordship +as much as we can.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"The XXVII of November, 1506."</span><a id="noteref_87" name="noteref_87" href="#note_87"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">87</span></span></a></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Michael Angelo says in his letter to Fattucci<a id="noteref_88" name="noteref_88" href="#note_88"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">88</span></span></a> that the +portrait he now modelled of Pope Julius was in bronze, +sitting, about seven cubits in height.<a id="noteref_89" name="noteref_89" href="#note_89"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">89</span></span></a> At the end of the +two years that it took him to finish the work he had to +cast it twice. He says. "I found that I had four and a +half ducats left. I never received anything more for this +work; and all the moneys paid out during the said two +years were the 1000 ducats with which I promised to cast +it." Michael Angelo worked in the Stanza del Pavaglione +behind the Cathedral; he employed three assistants, from +Florence—Lapo Antonio di Lapo, a sculptor; Lodovico del +Buono, called Lotti, a founder; and Pietro Urbano, a man +who worked for him for a long time. His way of life was +frugal and sordid in the extreme. In his letter to his +brother Buonarroto he says<a id="noteref_90" name="noteref_90" href="#note_90"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">90</span></span></a>:—</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"With regard to Giovansimone coming here, I do not +advise it as yet, for I am lodged in one wretched room, and +have bought one single bed, in which we all four of us +sleep. And I shall not be able to receive him suitably. +But if he will come all the same, let him wait till I have +</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page134">[pg 134]</span><a name="Pg134" id="Pg134" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">cast the figure I am doing, and I will send away Lapo and +Lodovico who are helping me, and I will send him a horse +so that he may come decently and not like a beggar. No +more. Pray to God for me that things may go well.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Michael Angelo</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, Sculptor, in Bologna."</span></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Another letter tells of a visit from the Pope, troubles +with his workmen, and his usual generosity to his brothers +and father.</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">To</span></span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Buonarroto di Lodovico Simone</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, </span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">in Firenze</span></span><a id="noteref_91" name="noteref_91" href="#note_91"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">91</span></span></a></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"To be delivered at the shop of Strozzi, wool merchant, +in the street of the Porta Rossa.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Buonarroto</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">,—I hear by one of yours how things went +about the little farm; it is a great comfort to me and +pleases me well, if it is a sure thing. Of the affairs of +Baronciello I am well informed, and from what I understand +it is a much more serious thing than you make out; +and for my part, it not being to my taste, I do not ask it. +We are all obliged to do all we can for Baronciello, and so +we will, especially everything that is in our power. You +must know that on Friday evening at twenty-one o'clock +Pope Julius came to my house where I work, and stayed +about half an hour while I was at work; then he gave me +the benediction, and went away, and showed himself well +pleased with what I am doing. For all this we must +thank God heartily; and so I beg you to do, and pray for +me. I inform you further, how that on Friday morning I +sent away Lapo and Lodovico, who were with me. Lapo +I dismissed because he is good for nothing and a rogue, +and would not serve me. Lodovico is better, and I would +</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page135">[pg 135]</span><a name="Pg135" id="Pg135" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">have kept him another two months; but Lapo, so as not +to be the only one blamed, so corrupted him that they +both had to go. I write this not because I care for them, +for they are not worth three halfpence between them, but +because, if they come to talk to Lodovico, he must not be +surprised. Tell him by no means to lend them his ears; +and if you want to know about them go to Messer Agnolo, +the Herald of the Signoria, for I have written all the +story to him, and he, out of his kindness, will relate it to +you. Of Giovansimone I have heard. I shall be pleased +if he goes to the shop of your master and is careful to do +his best; and so comfort him, because, if all goes well, I +have hopes of placing you both in a good position, if you +will be discreet. About that land which is beside that of +Mona </span><a id="noteref_92" name="noteref_92" href="#note_92"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">92</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 90%"> Zanobia, if Lodovico likes it, tell him to see about +it and let me know. I think, according to what is +rumoured here, the Pope will leave about the time of +Carnival.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"The first day of February, 1506.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Michael Angelo di Lodovico</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 90%"> +"</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">di Buonarrota Simoni</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">,</span><br /><span style="font-size: 90%"> +"Sculptor, in Bologna."</span></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Notwithstanding this warning, the silly old man, his +father, wrote a scolding letter to his son about the workmen. +Michael Angelo's humble reply was dated February 8, +1507.<a id="noteref_93" name="noteref_93" href="#note_93"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">93</span></span></a></p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Most Revered Father</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">,—I have received a letter +from you to-day, from which I learn that you have been +talked to by Lapo and Lodovico. I am glad that you +</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page136">[pg 136]</span><a name="Pg136" id="Pg136" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">should rebuke me, because I deserve to be rebuked as a +miserable sinner, as much as any one, perhaps more. But +you must know that I have not been guilty in this +affair for which you blame me now." +</span></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He goes on to explain his dealings with the rogue +Lapo. There is also trouble about a sword-hilt<a id="noteref_94" name="noteref_94" href="#note_94"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">94</span></span></a> Michael +Angelo had designed for Pietro Aldobrandini. However, +Aldobrandini objected that the blade was too short. +Michael Angelo affirmed that it was ordered exactly to the +measure sent, and bade his brother present it to Filippo +Strozzi as a compliment from the Buonarroti family; but +the stupid fellow bungled it in some way, for Michael +Angelo writes to say that he is sorry "he behaved so +scurvily towards Filippo in so trifling an affair."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Michael Angelo must have spent his spare time in +studying the bas-reliefs by Jacopo della Quercia upon the +façade of San Petronio, for he used many of the motives +in his next great work, the Sistine vault. When the wax +model of the statue of Pope Julius was ready, Michael +Angelo sent to Florence for the ordnance founder to the +Republic, Maestro dal Ponte, of Milan, to cast it for him. +This master's leave of absence was signed on May 15, 1507. +Just before the casting Michael Angelo wrote to +Buonarroto:—</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">To</span></span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Buonarroto di Lodovico Simoni</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, </span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">in Florence, at the +Shop of</span></span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Lorenzo Strozzi</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, </span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">Wool Merchant, in Porta +Rossa, Florence</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Buonarroto</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">,—I have received yours by the hand of +Master Bernardo, who has arrived; by it I hear all are +</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page137">[pg 137]</span><a name="Pg137" id="Pg137" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">well except Giovansimone, who has not yet recovered. I +am very sorry, and it grieves me not to be able to help +him. But soon I hope to be with you, and I will do +something that will please him, and you others, too. +Therefore comfort him and tell him to be of good cheer. +Tell Lodovico also that about the middle of next month I +hope to cast my figure without fail; therefore, if he will +offer prayers, or anything else for its good success, let him +do so betimes, and say I beg this of him. I have no time +to write more. Things go well.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"The twenty-sixth day of May (1507).</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Michael Angelo</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, in Bologna."</span><a id="noteref_95" name="noteref_95" href="#note_95"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">95</span></span></a></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At last, on July 1, it is done, but done badly; and he +writes:—</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">To the same.</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Buonarroto</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">,—We have cast my figure, and it has +come out so badly that I truly believe I shall have to do it +all again. I cannot write all the particulars, because I +have other things to think of. Enough that it has come +badly. Thanks be to God all the same, because I +believe everything is for the best. Before long I shall +know what I have to do and will write to you. Tell +Lodovico about it, and be of good cheer. And if it should +be that I have to do it all again, and that I am not able +to return to you, I will find means somehow to do what I +have promised in the best way I can.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"The first day of July.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Michael Angelo</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, in Bologna."</span><a id="noteref_96" name="noteref_96" href="#note_96"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">96</span></span></a></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page138">[pg 138]</span><a name="Pg138" id="Pg138" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>He gives further details in his next letter:—</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Buonarroto</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">,—Understand how that we have cast my +figure. I have not had much luck in it; for Master Bernardino, +either by ignorance or misfortune, did not +sufficiently melt the bronze. How it happened would be +long to tell; it is enough that my figure has come out up +to the girdle; the rest of the stuff, that is to say the metal, +remained in the furnace; it was not melted; so that to get +it out I shall have the furnace taken to pieces, and that I +am doing now, and I will have it remade again this week. +Next week I will recast the upper part and finish filling the +mould, and I believe that this bad business will go very +well, but not without the greatest devotion, labour, and +expense. I would have believed that Master Bernardino +could have cast it without fire, so much faith had I in +him; all the same, it is not that he is not a good master +and that he did not work with a will. But he who fails, +fails. And he has failed enough to my loss and his own, +for he blames himself so much that he cannot lift his +eyes in Bologna. If you see Baccio d'Agnolo read him +this letter and ask him to tell San Gallo, at Rome, and +remember me to him and to Giovanni da Ricasoli, and to +Granaccio give my respects. I hope, if the thing goes +well, in from fifteen to twenty days to be through with it +and to return to you. If it should not go well, I should +perhaps have to do it again. I will tell you all. Let +me know how Giovansimone is.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"The sixth day of July. (</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">No signature</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">.)</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"With this will be a letter to go to Rome for Giuliano +da San Gallo. Send it safely and as quickly as you can; +but if he should happen to be in Florence, give it to him."</span><a id="noteref_97" name="noteref_97" href="#note_97"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">97</span></span></a></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page139">[pg 139]</span><a name="Pg139" id="Pg139" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Again, to the same:—</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Buonorroto</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">,—I hear by one of yours that you are +well and happy. It pleases me very much. My business +here, I hope, will turn out well after all, but as yet I know +nothing. We have recast the upper part which was wanting, +as I informed you, but have not been able to see how +it has come, for the sand is so hot that we cannot as yet +uncover it. By next week I shall know and will tell +you. Master Bernardino left here yesterday. When he +salutes you receive him kindly enough.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"The tenth day of July.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Michael Angelo</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, in Bologna."</span><a id="noteref_98" name="noteref_98" href="#note_98"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">98</span></span></a></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">To the same, later (July 18, 1501):—</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Buonarroto</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">,—My affairs might have turned out much +better and also much worse; at any rate, all of it is there +as far as I can make out, for it is not yet all uncovered. +I estimate that it will take some months to chase, for it +has come out with a bad surface; all the same, we must +thank God! for, as I say, it might have been worse. If +anything is said to you by Salvestro del Pollaiolo</span><a id="noteref_99" name="noteref_99" href="#note_99"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">99</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 90%"> or +others, tell them that I do not need any one, so that +no one will be sent here to be on my shoulders, because +I have spent so much that there hardly remains enough +for me to live on, let alone keeping others. About next +week I will let you know more when I have uncovered the +whole figure.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Michael Angelo</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, in Bologna."</span><a id="noteref_100" name="noteref_100" href="#note_100"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">100</span></span></a></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page140">[pg 140]</span><a name="Pg140" id="Pg140" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>After several letters describing his labours, he writes, +ultimately, to the same:—</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Buonarroto</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">,—I marvel you write to me so seldom. +I am sure you have much more time to write to me than I +to write to you, so let me hear often how things go. I +understand by your last how, with good reason, you wish +me to return soon. It made me anxious for several days; +therefore, when you write to me, write strongly and clearly +what the matter is so that I may understand it—and +enough. Know that I desire to return soon even more +than you desire it, for I pass my life here in the greatest +discomfort and with the hardest labour, doing nothing but +work day and night, and I have endured so much fatigue +and hardship that if I should have to go through it again, +I do not believe my life would hold out, for it has been an +enormous undertaking, and if it had been in any one else's +hands it would have come out very badly. But I believe +the prayers of some one have sustained me and kept me +in health, for all Bologna was of opinion that I should +never finish it after it was cast, and before also, when no +one would believe that I should ever cast it. Enough that +I have brought it to a good end, but I shall not quite have +finished it by the end of this month, as I hoped; but next +month, at any rate, it will be done, and I will return. So +be all of good cheer, for I will do as I promised whatever +happens. Comfort Lodovico and Giovansimone for me +and write to me how Giovansimone does. Mind and +learn to keep shop, so that you will know how to do it +when you need, which will be soon.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"The tenth day of November.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Michael Angelo</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, in Bologna."</span><a id="noteref_101" name="noteref_101" href="#note_101"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">101</span></span></a></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page141">[pg 141]</span><a name="Pg141" id="Pg141" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>He worked on until February, and wrote to the same:—</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Buonarroto</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">,—It is now a fortnight since I expected +to be with you, for I thought that directly my figure was +finished they would place it. And now these people are +dawdling and doing nothing; and I have orders from the +Pope not to leave until it is placed, so that it seems to me +I shall be prevented. I shall stay and look after it all this +week too; if there are no further orders I will come +away at all costs, without observing the command. With +this will be a letter to go to the Cardinal of Pavia, in +which I reply to him about it all, so that he cannot complain. +So put it in a cover and direct it to Giuliano da +San Gallo on my part, and desire him to deliver it with +his own hand.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"Di Bologna (the 18th day of February, 1508)."</span><a id="noteref_102" name="noteref_102" href="#note_102"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">102</span></span></a></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">On February 21, 1508, the statue of Pope Julius II. +was hoisted on to its pedestal above the great central door +of San Petronio. Alas! this work which cost Michael +Angelo a year and three months of hard, unremitting +labour only existed for about twice that period. It was +destroyed by the worst enemy of art—war. The Papal +Legate fled from Bologna in 1511 and the Bentivogli again +entered the city. The people of their party dragged the +heavy bronze to the ground and broke it into pieces on +December 30. The broken fragments were sent to Alfonso +d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, who cast a huge cannon with the +metal, which the Italians, with their usual mocking spirit, +immediately called La Giulia. The Duke kept the head +only, and said he would not take its weight in gold for it; it +weighed six hundred pounds. This head has disappeared too; +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page142">[pg 142]</span><a name="Pg142" id="Pg142" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>there is no drawing, engraving, or any fragment to help us to +reconstruct in our minds this mighty bronze; only, perhaps, +we may imagine that we have an echo of this Pope by +Michael Angelo when we turn our eyes from the bare +front of San Petronio to the niche on the Palazzo +Comunale to the right of the square, where a bronze Pope, +Gregory XIII., stretches his hand to curse the iconoclastic +people. In the Piazza Dante, at Perugia, is the bronze +statue of Pope Julius III., by Vincenzio Dante, that makes +us think of the master, and in Rimini a mighty bronze +form stretches out his right hand with a threatening +gesture. He, too, is a Pope—Paul V.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image13" id="image13" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig53" id="fig53"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image13.png" width="480" height="364" alt="Image #13" title="THE CREATION OF THE SUN AND MOON, AND OF THE TREES AND HERBS" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">THE CREATION OF THE SUN AND MOON, AND OF THE TREES AND HERBS</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">SISTINE CHAPEL, ROME<br /> +(By permission of the Fratelli Alinari, Florence)</p></div> + +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc54" id="toc54"></a><a name="pdf55" id="pdf55"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page143">[pg 143]</span><a name="Pg143" id="Pg143" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">CHAPTER VI</span></h2> + +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.40em; margin-top: 2.40em"><span style="font-size: 120%">THE VAULT OF THE SISTINE CHAPEL</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Michael Angelo's work in Bologna well over, he returned +to Florence upon March 18, 1508, and hired his +house at Borgo Pinti from the Operai del Duomo, probably +intending to proceed with the Twelve Apostles for that +church. Michael Angelo's father now emancipated his +son from parental control. The date of the document is +March 13; it was entered in the State Archives upon March +28. According to the law of Florence a son was not of +age until his father had executed this document. Michael +Angelo appears to have had the idea of settling in Florence +at this time, but "his Medusa," as he called the Pope, +commanded the presence of his artist in Rome as soon as +he heard that the work at Bologna was finished. Michael +Angelo obeyed at once this time. We have a good account +by his own hand of what happened when he arrived +in Rome, his famous letter to Fattucci, written sixteen +years later.</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">To</span></span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Ser Giovan Francesco Fattucci</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, </span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">in Rome</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">From</span></span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Florence</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%"> (</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">January</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%"> 1524).</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Messer Giovan Francesco</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">,—You ask of me in your +letter how my affairs stood with Pope Julius. I tell you +that I estimate that I could demand payment and interest +</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page144">[pg 144]</span><a name="Pg144" id="Pg144" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">on it, to receive money rather than give it. For when +he sent for me to Florence, I believe it was in the second +year of his Pontificate, I had begun to decorate the half of +the Sala del Consiglio of Florence, that is to paint it. I +was to have had three thousand ducats for it, and the +cartoon was already completed, as was well known to all +Florence, so that they seemed to me half earned. And of +the Twelve Apostles, which I had still to do for Santa Maria +del Fiore, one was sketched out, as may still be seen; and +I had carried thither the greater part of the marbles. +Pope Julius calling me away, I received nothing for either +undertaking. Afterwards, I being in Rome with the said +Pope Julius, he commissioned me to make his tomb, +into which was to go a thousand ducats' worth of marbles. +He paid me the money, and sent me to Carrara for them; +there I stayed eight months having them blocked out, and +brought them almost all to the piazza of St. Peter's; a part +remained at the Ripa. After I had paid the freightage of +these said marbles the money received for this work came +to an end. I furnished the house I had on the piazza of St. +Peter's with beds and furniture with my own money, on +my hopes of the tomb, and sent for workmen from +Florence (some of whom are still living), and paid them +with my own in advance. By this time Pope Julius had +changed his mind, and no longer wished to have it done. +I, not knowing this and going to him for money, was +chased from the room; and for this insult I immediately +left Rome, and everything I had in my house went to the +bad; and these marbles which I had bought lay on the +piazza of St. Peter's until the creation of Pope Leo; and +on every side things went wrong. Among other things +that I can prove, two pieces, of four braccia and a half +</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page145">[pg 145]</span><a name="Pg145" id="Pg145" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">each, on the Ripa were stolen from me by Agostino Chigi, +which had cost me more than fifty gold ducats; and these +could be claimed for, because there are witnesses. But to +return to the marbles. From the time that I went for +them, and that I remained at Carrara, until I was driven +from the Palace, was more than a year, for which period I +never received anything, and I paid out many tens of +ducats.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><a name="image14" id="image14" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig56" id="fig56"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image14.png" width="480" height="595" alt="Image #14" title="CREATION OF MAN" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">CREATION OF MAN</span></div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">SISTINE CHAPEL</span><br /><span style="font-size: 90%"> +(</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">By permission of Messrs. Braun, Clement & Co., in Dornach, Alsace</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">)</span></p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"Afterwards, the first time Pope Julius went to Bologna, +I was obliged to take my courage in both hands and +go there to beg his pardon; then he ordered me to +make his portrait in bronze, which was seated, about seven +braccia high. He asking me what it would cost, I said +I believed I could cast it for a thousand ducats, but that +it was not my art and that I could not promise. He +replied to me: 'Go to work and cast it until it come well, +and we will give you what will content you.' To be brief, +it was cast twice. At the end of the two years that I +stayed there I found myself four ducats and a half in +pocket; and during that time I never received anything +for all the expenses that I had, except the thousand ducats +which I had said that I could cast it for; these were paid +me in several installments by Messer Antonio Maria da +Legnia (</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">me</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">), the Bolognese.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"Having hoisted the figure on to the façade of San +Petronio, and returned to Rome, Pope Julius did not yet +wish me to go on with the tomb, but set me to paint the +vault of Sisto, and we made an agreement for three thousand +ducats. The first design was for twelve apostles in the +lunettes, and for the rest certain compartments filled with +ornaments of the usual sort.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"After beginning the said work it seemed to me it would +</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page146">[pg 146]</span><a name="Pg146" id="Pg146" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">be but a poor thing. He asked me why? I told him, +because they also were poor. Then he gave me a new +order to do what I would, and that he would satisfy me, +and that I was to paint down to the stories below. When +the vault was almost finished the Pope returned to +Bologna, where I went twice for money I needed, uselessly, +and lost all my time, until he returned to Rome. I +returned to Rome and set myself to work on the cartoons +for the said vault, that is, for the ends and sides of the +said Chapel of Sisto, hoping to have money to finish the +work. I never could obtain anything; and complaining +one day to Messer Bernardo da Bibbiena and Attalante +how that I was unable to stay any longer in Rome, but +that I must go away, with the help of God, Messer +Bernardo said to Attalante that he must remember that +he was to give me money in any case, and he had two +thousand ducats of the Chamber given to me, which are +the moneys, with that first thousand for marbles, that +they put to the account of the tomb; and I estimate that +I should have more for the time lost and the work done. +And of the said moneys, Messer Bernardo and Attalante +having obtained it for me, I gave to the one a hundred +ducats, to the other fifty.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"Then came the death of Pope Julius, and in the first +years of Leo, Aginensis, wishing to enlarge the tomb, that +is, to make a greater work than the design I had at first +prepared, we made a contract, and I not wishing the +said three thousand ducats I had received to be put +to the account of the tomb, and showing that I ought +to have much more, Aginensis said to me that I was a +swindler."</span><a id="noteref_103" name="noteref_103" href="#note_103"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">103</span></span></a></p> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page147">[pg 147]</span><a name="Pg147" id="Pg147" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image15" id="image15" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig57" id="fig57"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image15.png" width="480" height="385" alt="Image #15" title="CREATION OF MAN" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">CREATION OF MAN</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">DETAIL, SISTINE CHAPEL</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The preliminary works for the vault of the Sistine +Chapel were carried on without delay, and there is a note +in Michael Angelo's hand, saying: "I record how on +this day, the tenth of May, in the year one thousand +five hundred and eight, I, Michael Angelo, Sculptor, have +received from the Holiness of our Lord Pope Julius II. +five hundred ducats of the Camera, the which were paid +me by Messer Carlino, chamberlain, and Messer Carlo degli +Albizzi, on account of the painting of the vault of the +Chapel of Pope Sisto, on which I begin to work this day, +under the conditions and contracts set forth in a document +written by his Most Reverend Lordship of Pavia, +and signed by my hand. For the painter assistants who +are to come from Florence, who will be five in number, +twenty gold ducats of the Camera a-piece, on this condition, +that is to say, that when they are here and are working +in accord with me, the said twenty ducats shall be +reckoned to each man's salary; the said salary to begin +upon the day they leave Florence to come here. And if +they do not agree with me, half the said money shall be +paid them for their travelling expenses and for their +time."<a id="noteref_104" name="noteref_104" href="#note_104"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">104</span></span></a></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">From this important record we learn that Michael +Angelo, who still calls himself "sculptor," intends to +engage five painter assistants, and very wisely arranges +terms by which he can send them away if he does not get +on with them, and also that he began to work upon May +10, 1508. This must not be taken to mean that he began +to paint, but only to prepare the vault by carefully pointing +the bricks and covering it with rough cast plaster +ready for the fine coat called intonaca, in this case made +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page148">[pg 148]</span><a name="Pg148" id="Pg148" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>of marble dust and Roman lime, prepared each day and +plastered on the wall in patches sufficient for one day's work +only. In true fresco painting the colour is put on the +plaster only whilst it is still wet. Michael Angelo must also +have prepared a general scheme to scale from his small +design, approved by the Pope, and set it off with very careful +measurements on the surface of the rough cast, at least as +to the architectural framework. The cartoons for the +figure-subjects and details he may have left until they +were needed. He considerably altered the scale of the +figures in his stories as he proceeded with the work; this +alteration in scale is not only observable in the central +subjects or pictures of the vault, but also in the decorative +figures on the framework, called Athletes; those at the +end, near the stories of Noah and the Flood, and where +Michael Angelo began to work, are at least a head +smaller than those at the other end of the chapel over the +altar, where the stories relate to the Creation. This can +be seen even in a photographic reproduction. Although +the development of the great scheme was so much upon +the traditional lines of Italian art, yet the details of +arrangement and placing must have fully occupied the +artist for some months. He cannot have begun actually +to paint on the vault until late autumn, at least, not any +of the work we see now, for his assistants did not +arrive from Florence until August, and he had to experiment +with their work, and find it wanting, before he +dismissed them, destroyed their work, and began alone. +All the work of the part of the vault executed first is by +Michael Angelo's own hand, as far as can be judged from +the floor of the chapel, or from the cornice level with the +windows. The following receipts for the plaster, or for +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page149">[pg 149]</span><a name="Pg149" id="Pg149" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>rough-coating the vault, show that painting cannot have +begun so early as has been assumed:<a id="noteref_105" name="noteref_105" href="#note_105"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">105</span></span></a></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image16" id="image16" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig58" id="fig58"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image16.png" width="480" height="374" alt="Image #16" title="THE CREATION OF EVE" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">THE CREATION OF EVE</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">SISTINE CHAPEL, ROME</p></div> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"In the name of God, the 11th day of May, 1508.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"I, Piero di Jacopo Roselli, Master Mason, have this +day received, the 11th of May as above said, from Michael +Angelo Bonaroti, Sculptor, ten ducats in gold, full weight, +on account of 'Scialbatura' on the vault of Pope Sixtus, +and for rough plastering in his chapel, and doing that which +was needful by order of Pope Julius; and in faith of the +truth I have done this with my own hand, this day above +said. Ducats 10 of gold, full weight."</span></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This payment was made by Michael Angelo. The second +receipt of Rosselli for fifteen ducats was made out on +May 24, to Francesco Granacci, so he was already in Rome, +helping his friend. The next payment of ten ducats was +also made by Granacci on June 3, and another on June 10. +On July 17 Michael Angelo himself paid the mason; so +Granacci had gone to Florence by then to hire the other +assistants. On July 27 Michael Angelo paid Rosselli +thirty golden ducats, full weight, for rough plastering and +other details. The amount paid, and the time taken, go +to prove that the whole vault was plastered. Granacci<a id="noteref_106" name="noteref_106" href="#note_106"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">106</span></span></a> +wrote from Florence about the assistants. Heath Wilson +gives a literal translation of his rather bewildering letter.</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Very Dear Friend</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">,—I recommend myself and wish +you infinite health. This is to your Excellency, as to-day +I met Raffaelino, the painter, and gathered from him in +fine that if you have need of him he will come at your +</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page150">[pg 150]</span><a name="Pg150" id="Pg150" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">bidding, should you be pleased to pay him the salary +which he has received from the Master Pietro Matteo +d'Amelia, who, he says, gave him ten ducats a month. +Ever faithful to your Excellency, I give the advice as +from myself. If you have need to employ him, offer +him your amount of salary; he is ready to do what you +may command as to work. He is a good master and +honest. And if for me there is anything, advise me, for I +am always here to do for you those things which are +useful and honourable. If I can do one thing more than +another let me know; I will do it with love and solicitude. +Nothing more. Christ have you in his keeping. </span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">Bene +Valeti</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"This day, 22nd of July, 1508.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Yours</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">,</span><br /><span style="font-size: 90%"> +"</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Francesco Granacci</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"If you can employ me as above is said, I shall be +willing to be with you. Nothing more.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Giovanni Michi</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">,</span><br /><span style="font-size: 90%"> +"San Lorenzo, Florence</span><br /><span style="font-size: 90%"> +"(Faithful service and honest man).</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"Directed to the Excellent Master</span><br /><span style="font-size: 90%"> +Michael Angelo, Florence, at</span><br /><span style="font-size: 90%"> +St. Peter's, Sculptor, Rome.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"Given from the Bank of Baldassare in Campo di +Fiore."</span></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image17" id="image17" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig59" id="fig59"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image17.png" width="480" height="599" alt="Image #17" title="THE EXPULSION" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">THE EXPULSION</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">SISTINE CHAPEL, ROME<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission of Messrs. Braun, Clément & Co., in. Dornach, Alsace</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Neither Raffaellino del Garbo nor Giovanni Michi +were employed, but the next letter of Granacci, dated +July 24, 1508, mentions Giuliano Buggiardini and Jacopo +L'Indaco, who were both tried. Vasari informs us that +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page151">[pg 151]</span><a name="Pg151" id="Pg151" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Granacci, Jacopo di Sandro, and the elder Indaco, Agnolo +di Donnino, and Aristotile da Sangallo also accepted work. +We have another proof that the actual fresco painting did +not begin at this period, in a document preserved in the +National Archives at Florence. Heath Wilson obtained +legal opinion that Michael Angelo must have been in +Florence in person when this deed was executed. It runs: +"In the year of our Lord, 1508, on the 11th day of +August, Michael Angelo, the son of Ludovico Lionardo di +Buonarroto, cancelled his lawful claim upon the estate of +his uncle Francis by a deed drawn up by Ser Giovanni di +Guasparre da Montevarchi, Florentine notary, on the 27th +of the month of July, 1508." Another instance of Michael +Angelo's generosity to his family. If Michael Angelo at +once proceeded to Rome, he and his assistants may have +begun work towards the end of August. During all this +period we must notice how troubled he was by the affairs +of his family and his household arrangements. Michael +Angelo, while living like a poor man in Rome, sent money +to, and purchased land for, his family in Florence, and +helped to establish Buonarroto in business, but they were +never satisfied, and his letters to his father and Giovan +Simone show how his mind was troubled. There is a +letter in the British Museum that belongs to this summer +of 1508.</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Most Reverend Father</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">,—I have learnt by your +last how things go with you, and how Giovan Simone +behaves himself. I have not had worse news for ten years +than on the evening when I read your letter, for I thought +that I had arranged their affairs so that they had reason +to hope they would make a good shop with my aid. Now, +</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page152">[pg 152]</span><a name="Pg152" id="Pg152" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">I see, they do the contrary, especially Giovan Simone. +From this I know that it is profitless to try and do him +good. Had it been possible on the day when I received +your letter I should have mounted on horseback and by +this time should have settled everything; but not being +able to do so, I write him such a letter as appears to me +to be necessary, and if from now he does not change his +nature, or if ever he takes from the home so much as a +stick, or does anything to displease you, I pray you to let me +know, because I will obtain leave from the Pope to come +to you, when I shall show him his error. I wish you to +be certain that all the labours which I have continually +endured have been more for your sake than for my own, +and the property which I have bought I have bought +that it may be yours whilst you live. Had it not been for +you I should not have bought it. Therefore, if it please +you to let this house or the farm, do so; and with +that income and with what I shall give you you will live +like a gentleman. Were it not that the summer were +coming on I would say come and live with me here, but it +is not the season, for here in summer you would not live +long. It has occurred to me to take from him (Giovan +Simone) the money which he has in the shop, and to give +it to Gismondo, so that he and Buonarroto may get on +together as well as they can ... and if you let these said +houses and the farm of the Pazolatica, and with that +income and with the help that I will give you besides, you +will take refuge in some place where you will be comfortable, +and you will be able to keep some one to serve +you either in Florence or outside Florence, and leave that +good-for-nothing ... I pray you to consider yourself, +and in all things whatever you wish to do—that is, for +</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page153">[pg 153]</span><a name="Pg153" id="Pg153" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">yourself in all you desire—I will aid you all I know and +can. Let me hear about Cassandra's affairs. I am advised +not to go to law about it here. I am told that I shall +spend here three times as much as there; and this +is certain, for a grosso goes further there than two carlini +here. Besides, I have no friend here to trust to, and I +could not attend to such things. It seems to me, when +you desire to attend to it, that you should go by the +usual way, as reason demands, and you must defend yourself +as well as you are able and know how; and for the +money that is necessary to spend I will not fail as long as +I have any. Have as little fear as you can, for it is not a +case of life and death. No more. Let me know, as I told +you above.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"From </span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Michael Angelo</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, in Rome."</span><a id="noteref_107" name="noteref_107" href="#note_107"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">107</span></span></a></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image18" id="image18" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig60" id="fig60"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image18.png" width="480" height="606" alt="Image #18" title="THE DELUGE" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">THE DELUGE</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">A DETAIL, SISTINE CHAPEL, ROME<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">Reproduced by permission from a photograph by Sig. D. Anderson, Rome</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Truly his family did all they could to disturb his +mind during this important period of the development of +his greatest work. The mind that wrote the following +letter to Giovan Simone cannot have been in a good state +for work; but as he never lets a thought about his art +appear in his letters, so, no doubt, when once the mood of +work was upon him, all other thoughts were left without +the workshop door:</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Rome</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, </span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">July</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%"> 1508.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Giovan Simone</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">,—It is said that when one does good +to a good man it makes him become better, but a bad +man becomes worse. I have tried now many years with +words and deeds of kindness to bring you to live honestly +and in peace with your father and the rest of us. You +grow continually worse. I do not say that you are a bad +</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page154">[pg 154]</span><a name="Pg154" id="Pg154" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">man, but you are of such sort that you have ceased to +please me or anybody. I could read you a long lesson on +your ways of living, but they would be idle words, like all +the rest that I have wasted on you. To cut the matter +short, I will tell you for a certain truth that you have +nothing in the world. What you spend and your house-room +I give you, and have given you these many years, +for the love of God, believing you to be my brother like +the rest. Now, I am sure that you are not my brother, +else you would not threaten my father. Nay, you are a +beast; and as a beast I mean to treat you. Know that he +who sees his father threatened or roughly handled is +bound to risk his own life in this cause. Enough, I +tell you that you have nothing in the world; and if I +hear the least thing about your goings on, I will come +post-haste and show you your error, and teach you to +waste your substance and set fire to houses and farms you +have not earned. Indeed, you are not where you think +yourself to be. If I come, I will open your eyes to what +will make you weep hot tears, and let you know on what +false grounds you found your pride.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"I have something else to say to you which I have not +said before. If you will endeavour to live rightly, and to +honour and revere your father, I will help you like the +rest, and make you able shortly to open a good shop. +If you do not do so, I shall come and settle your affairs +in such a fashion that you will know what you are better +than you ever did, and will understand what you have +in the world, and it will be seen in every place where +you may go. No more. What I lack in words I will +supply with deeds.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Michael Angelo</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, in Rome.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page155">[pg 155]</span><a name="Pg155" id="Pg155" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a><a name="image19" id="image19" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig61" id="fig61"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image19.png" width="480" height="613" alt="Image #19" title="ATHLETE" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">ATHLETE</span></div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">SISTINE CHAPEL, ROME</span><br /><span style="font-size: 90%"> +(</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">By permission of the Fratelli Alinari, Florence</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">)</span></p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"I cannot refrain from adding two lines. It is this: +I have gone these twelve years past, drudging about +through all Italy, borne every shame, suffered every hardship, +worn my body in every toil, put my life into a +thousand dangers, solely to help the fortunes of my +house, and now that I have begun to raise it up a little, +you alone choose to destroy and ruin in one hour all that +I have done in so many years, and with such labours. By +Christ's body this shall not be! for I am the man to confound +ten thousand such as you whenever it be needed. +Be wise in time then, and do not try one who has other +things to vex him."</span></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">So with hindrances enough, private and public, we +must imagine the great artist climbing his scaffolding to +the vault of the Pope's chapel, followed by his assistants, +and setting them their task, transferring his full-size outline +cartoons, prepared from the general designs, to the +roof. We may fancy L'Indaco, Buggiardini, and the rest, +staring with amazement at the huge figures and the great +flowing lines before them, and trying to fit their dry +manner of painting to the new grandeur of design. It +could but end in one way. The clause prepared beforehand +by Michael Angelo in the contracts came into effect, +and they had to be sent away, with plenty of grumbling +on their part, no doubt. Michael Angelo was too exacting +in the perfection of his taste to allow any work short +of the absolute ideal he had imagined. Unlike Raphael, +who was working in the neighbouring stanze, and who was +contented to pass, and some would have us believe to +execute, ill-turned foreshortenings and false drawing, so +long as his general effect was preserved and the work done +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page156">[pg 156]</span><a name="Pg156" id="Pg156" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>in reasonable time. Perhaps his gentle and sunlike genius +could not bear to use harsh words and shut the door +against the mediocre men with whom he was surrounded. +Michael Angelo could brook no imperfection of whatever +kind, so that he destroyed all that his assistants had done +and shut himself up alone in the chapel. He was the only +man who could do the work to his satisfaction; so he did it, +alone and unaided, as to the actual painting, and produced +a work unequalled in perfection since Phidias worked in +Athens.</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"> </div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The dismissal of his assistants appears to have begun +about the New Year 1509. It is hinted at in this +letter:—</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Dearest Father</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">,—I have to-day received one of yours. +When I read it I was sufficiently displeased. I doubt that +you are more timid and fearful than you need be. I should +like you to tell me what you imagine they can do to you, +that is, if it should come to the worst. I have no more to +say. It grieves me that you should be in such fear, so I +comfort you by advising you to be well prepared against +their power, with good advice, and then think no more +about it; for if they took away all you have in the world +you should not lack means to be comfortable as long as I +was there. Therefore be of good cheer. I am still in a +great quandary, for it is now a year since I received a +groat from the Pope, and I do not ask for it, for my work +does not go forward in such a fashion as to deserve it, as +it seems to me. And this is because of the difficulty of +the work, and also that it is not my profession. And so +I lose my time fruitlessly. God help me. If you are in +</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page157">[pg 157]</span><a name="Pg157" id="Pg157" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">need of money go to the Spedalingo</span><a id="noteref_108" name="noteref_108" href="#note_108"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">108</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 90%"> and make him give +you anything up to fifteen ducats, and let me know what +remains. Jacopo,</span><a id="noteref_109" name="noteref_109" href="#note_109"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">109</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 90%"> the painter whom I brought here, has +just left, and as he has been grumbling here about my +doings, I expect he will grumble there also. Turn a deaf +ear to him. It is enough. For he is a thousand times in +the wrong. I have good reason to complain of him. +Take no notice of him. Tell Buonarroto that I will reply +to him another time.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"The day twenty 7 of January.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Michael Angelo</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, in Rome."</span><a id="noteref_110" name="noteref_110" href="#note_110"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">110</span></span></a></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image20" id="image20" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig62" id="fig62"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image20.png" width="480" height="617" alt="Image #20" title="ATHLETE" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">ATHLETE</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">SISTINE CHAPEL, ROME<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission of the Fratelli Alinari, Florence</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Buggiardini appears to have fared better than L'Indaco. +He painted a portrait of Michael Angelo with a towel +tied round his head like a turban, now in the Casa Buonarroti, +at Florence. From the age of the sitter it appears +to belong to this period; the towel may have been used to +protect the hair and head of the artist from falling colour +as he painted the roof above him. It is an energetic +head, with jet black hair and sallow complexion, with +many lines and wrinkles for so young a face, determined, +sad, and scornful in expression; a slight weakness and +affectation may be due to the personality of the painter. +Buggiardini also executed a painting from the cartoon of +the master, the Madonna and Child with Angels, number +809, of the National Gallery. The beauty and grandeur +of the lines of this design are far above the imagination +of any one except Michael Angelo, but the details of the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page158">[pg 158]</span><a name="Pg158" id="Pg158" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>execution of the hands and the feet are inferior to any +authentic work of his. The hatchings in the shadows, +especially of the draperies, are made up of short and +feeble lines, and do not express the form of the folds at +all in the same way as we are accustomed to see Michael +Angelo express them, even in his earlier drawings, the +copies from Giotto and the primitives. The form of the +mouths, and the expression and shape of the heads, especially +in the second angel on the right, are similar to +the work of Buggiardini as seen in Florence, Milan, and +the Cathedral of Pisa. Buggiardini is the only one of +the assistants who seems to have reaped any benefit, +beyond their wages, from the work they did for the great +master. This trouble with his assistants was not the only +difficulty that Michael Angelo had to contend with in the +execution of his work. Vasari says that he shut himself +alone in the chapel, without any one to help him even in +the grinding of his colours; but, as he adds, that he took +great precautions to prevent the workmen informing the +public as to what he was doing, we must assume that +Vasari was repeating a fable that had grown up about the +marvellous work forty years after it was executed, much +as we might at this day repeat stories of the making of +the Wellington Monument by Alfred Stevens. The carpenters +and plasterers Michael Angelo employed would +soon learn to perform the more mechanical part of his +work, such as laying the intonaco, pricking the cartoons, +and grinding colours, and as they could not have inserted +into the work any tradition contrary to the new manner of +the artist, would be preferred by him to second-rate artist +assistants; no doubt, too, the boy he employed in household +work would be made to help. The trouble he had +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page159">[pg 159]</span><a name="Pg159" id="Pg159" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>in his household arrangements before the time of his trusted +servant, Urbino, may be illustrated by a letter relating to +the boy he got from Florence about this time. He never +would have a woman to work for him in any way.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image21" id="image21" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig63" id="fig63"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image21.png" width="480" height="608" alt="Image #21" title="ATHLETE" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">ATHLETE</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">SISTINE CHAPEL, ROME<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission of the Fratelli Alinari, Florence</span></span>)</p></div> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">To</span></span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Lodovico di Buonarrota Simoni</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, </span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">in Florence</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Rome</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%"> (</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">January</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%"> 1510).</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Most Revered Father</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">,—I answered you about the +business of Bernardino, as I wished first to settle the affairs +of my household as you know, and so I now reply to you. +I sent first for him because I was promised that within a +few days he would be ready and that I might get to work. +Afterwards I saw that it would be a long business; in the +meantime I am seeking another suitable one to get out of +it. I won't have any work done until I am ready, but tell +him how the matter stands. About the boy who came, +that rascal of a muleteer did me out of a ducat. He took +an oath that he had agreed for two broad golden ducats, +and all the lads who come here with the muleteers do not +give more than ten carlinos. I was more angry than if I +had lost twenty-five ducats, because I see it is the fault of +the father, who wanted to send him on muleback in +state. Oh! I had never such good fortune! not I. +Although the father declared, and the son likewise, that +he would do anything, attend to the mule, and sleep on +the ground if necessary; and now I have to look after +him. Did I need any more bothers than I have had +since my return? Here I have my boy, whom I left +here, ill since the day I returned until now. He is now +better it is true, but he has been between life and death, +given up by the doctors, so that for about a month I have +not been in bed, let alone many others. Now I have this +</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page160">[pg 160]</span><a name="Pg160" id="Pg160" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">nuisance of a boy, who says, and says again, that he does +not want to lose time, that he must learn. And he told +me that he would be satisfied with two or three hours a +day. Now all day is not enough, so that he will be drawing +all night also. These are counsels of the father. If +I say anything he would declare that I did not wish him +to learn. I want some one to mind the house, and if he +did not feel like doing it they should not have put me +to this expense. But they are no good, no good at all, +and are working for their own ends; but enough. I beg +you to have him taken away from before me, for he annoys +me so much that I cannot stand him any longer. The +muleteer has had so much money that he can very well +take him back again; he is a friend of his father's. Tell +the father to send for him. I'll not give him another +farthing, for I have no money, I will have patience until +he sends for him, and if he is not sent for I will turn him +out, for I have done so already, on the second day after his +arrival and other times as well, and he won't believe it.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"For the business of the shop I will send you a hundred +ducats next Saturday. With this, if you see that they are +diligent and do well, give it to them and make me their +creditor, as I was to Buonarroto when he went away. If +they are not diligent, and do badly, place it to my account +at Santa Maria Nuova. It is not yet time to buy.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"Your </span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Michael Angelo</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, in Rome.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"If you are speaking to the father of the boy, put +the matter nicely, mannerly; that he is a good lad, but +too genteel, and that he is not fit for my work, and that +he must send for him."</span><a id="noteref_111" name="noteref_111" href="#note_111"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">111</span></span></a></p> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page161">[pg 161]</span><a name="Pg161" id="Pg161" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image22" id="image22" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig64" id="fig64"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image22.png" width="480" height="631" alt="Image #22" title="ATHLETE" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">ATHLETE</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">SISTINE CHAPEL, ROME<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission of the Fratelli Alinari, Florence</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The more gentle tone of the postscript is very characteristic. +Outwardly he would be rough, consumed with +anger and indignation; but inwardly his nature was kindly +to a degree to those he had about him.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Condivi tells us of the delay in the works in the +Sistine due to the mould on the surface of the fresco, and +of the haste of Julius. The progress was fast enough, one +would have thought, even for that exacting Pontiff; for +although the whole work consists, on counting heads, of +some three hundred and ninety-four figures, the majority +ten feet high; the prophets and sibyls, twelve in number, +would be eighteen feet high if they stood up; yet by the +following letters to his brother Buonarroto, of October +1509, we know he had finished the first half, consisting probably +of some two hundred figures, even then; or assuming +that he began to paint when the assistants were dismissed +in January 1509, he worked at the rate of about a figure a +day.</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">To</span></span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Buonarroto di Lodovico di Buonarrota</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, +</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">in Florence</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">From</span></span> <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Rome</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, </span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">the 17th of October, 1509.</span></span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Buonarroto</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">,—I got the bread: it is good, but it +is not good enough to make a trade of, for there would +be little gain. I gave the knave five carlini, and he +would hardly hand it over. I learn by your last how +Lorenzo</span><a id="noteref_112" name="noteref_112" href="#note_112"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">112</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 90%"> will pass this way, and how I am to give him +a good reception. It appears you do not know how I am +situated here, all the same I excuse you. What I can do, +I will. About Gismondo and how he intends to come +here to advance his business, tell him from me not to have +any designs on me, not because I do not love him as a +</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page162">[pg 162]</span><a name="Pg162" id="Pg162" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">brother, but because I am unable to help him in anything. +I am obliged to love myself more than others, and I have +not enough for my own needs. I live here in great distress +and with the greatest fatigue of body, and have not a +friend of any sort, and do not want one, and have not +even enough time to eat necessary food; therefore, do not +annoy me any more, for I cannot bear another ounce.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">For the shop I encourage you to be careful. It pleases +me to hear that Giovanni Simone begins to do well. +Endeavour to advance a little, or, at least, maintain what +you have got, so that you will know how to manage larger +affairs afterwards; for I have a hope, when I return to you, +that you will be men enough to manage for yourselves. +Tell Lodovico that I have not replied to him because I had +not the time, and not to wonder if I do not write.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Michael Angelo</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, Sculptor, in Rome."</span><a id="noteref_113" name="noteref_113" href="#note_113"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">113</span></span></a></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">To the same.</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">From</span></span> <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Rome</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%"> (</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">Oct. 1509</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">).</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Buonarroto</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">,—I hear by your last how that all are +well, and how Lodovico has another office. It all pleases +me, and I encourage him to accept it if it will allow him +to return when necessary to his post in Florence. I am +here just as usual, and shall have finished my painting by +the end of next week, that is, the part of it I began; +and when I have uncovered it I believe I shall receive my +money, and I will endeavour again to get leave to come to +you for a month. I do not know whether it will be, +but I need it for I am not very well. I have no time +to write more. I will tell you what happens.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Michael Angelo</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, Sculptor, in Rome."</span><a id="noteref_114" name="noteref_114" href="#note_114"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">114</span></span></a></p> +</div> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page163">[pg 163]</span><a name="Pg163" id="Pg163" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image23" id="image23" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig65" id="fig65"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image23.png" width="480" height="471" alt="Image #23" title="THE DELPHIC SIBYL" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">THE DELPHIC SIBYL</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">SISTINE CHAPEL, ROME<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">Reproduced by permission from a photograph by Sig. D. Anderson, Rome</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The work was exposed to view upon November 1, +1509. So at the longest possible estimate of time +from May 10, 1508, to November 1, 1509, Michael +Angelo took four hundred and sixty-two working days +to paint it. The more probable, in fact, almost certain +estimate of the time occupied in painting the fresco, +as we now see it, is from the time his assistants left +him, about New Year's Day 1509, to November 1 in +the same year, or two hundred and thirty-four working +days. As the plaster could only be painted on +whilst wet, we can tell, by the marks of the divisions +between the separate days' plasterings, how many +days the larger individual figures took. One of the +largest and most prominent, as well as one of the finest +and most finished, the Adam in the Creation of Man, +was painted in three sittings only. The lines of the +junctions of the plaster may be seen in a photograph; +one is along the collar bone, and one across the junction +of the body and the thighs. There is also a division +all round the figure, an inch or so from the outline, +so we know that the beautiful and highly finished head +and neck were painted in one day; the stupendous torso +and arms in another; and the huge legs, finished in +every detail, in a third. Such power of work and of +finish is utterly inconceivable to any artist of to-day. +Some will even excuse the imperfection of the study of +a head by saying that they had only three or four +sittings.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Condivi asserts, and Vasari follows him, that the part +uncovered in November 1509, was the first half of the +whole vault, beginning at the large door of entrance and +ending in the middle. But Albertini states in his +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page164">[pg 164]</span><a name="Pg164" id="Pg164" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Mirabilia Urbis</span></span><a id="noteref_115" name="noteref_115" href="#note_115"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">115</span></span></a> that the upper portion of the whole +vaulted roof had been uncovered when he saw it in 1509, +and this statement is corroborated by the work itself. +There is a distinct enlargement of the style from the Sin +of the Sons of Ham through the series of the Creation +and the Athletes to the Prophets and Sibyls, and again +from the first of these, near the large door, to those near +the altar wall. So it may have been the complete work +on the flat part of the vault that was shown to the world, +including the story of the Creation and Fall of Man; +and it was not, therefore, so very unreasonable of +Bramante to propose that Raphael should continue the +work, for he probably did not know of Michael Angelo's +intention of commemorating the promise of the Redeemer +by his prophets and sibyls upon the curved surface of +the vaulting. Michael Angelo was naturally indignant at +his action, but Julius, who probably was the only man +who knew Michael Angelo's scheme, commanded him to +complete his work.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We gather from a letter to his father that the +scaffolding for completing the painting of the vault was +not put up on September 7, 1510.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image24" id="image24" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig66" id="fig66"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image24.png" width="480" height="629" alt="Image #24" title="THE PROPHET JOEL" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">THE PROPHET JOEL</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">SISTINE CHAPEL, ROME<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission of the Fratelli Alinari, Florence</span></span>)</p></div> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">To</span></span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Lodovico di Buonarrota Simoni</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, </span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">in Florence</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">From</span></span> <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Rome</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, </span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">September 7, 1510.</span></span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Dearest Father</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">,—I have received your last, and +hear with the greatest anxiety that Buonarroto is ill; +therefore, as soon as you see this, go to the Spedalingo</span><a id="noteref_116" name="noteref_116" href="#note_116"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">116</span></span></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page165">[pg 165]</span><a name="Pg165" id="Pg165" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">and make him give you fifty or an hundred ducats; you +may need them. Arrange that all things necessary be +provided in good time, and that there be no lack of +money. Let me tell you how that I am waiting to +receive from the Pope five hundred ducats, well earned, +and he should give me as much again to put up the +scaffolding and go on with the other part of my work. +And he has gone from here without leaving me any orders. +I have written him a letter. I do not know what will +follow. I should have come to you immediately on the +receipt of your last, but if I left without permission I +doubt the Pope would be angry, and I should lose all +that I ought to have. Nevertheless, let me know +immediately if Buonarroto should still be very bad, +because if you think I ought to come I will ride post +and be with you in two days, for men are worth more +than money. Let me know at once, for I am very anxious.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"On the 7th day of September.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"Your </span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Michael Angelo</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, Sculptor, in Rome."</span><a id="noteref_117" name="noteref_117" href="#note_117"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">117</span></span></a></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The following note tells of the end of the work:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"I have finished the Chapel which I painted. The +Pope is very well satisfied, but other things do not happen +as I wished. Lay blame on the times, which are unfavourable +to art." It is a note by Michael Angelo in the +Buonarroto manuscripts of the British Museum, but undated. +It is probably of October 1512, and marks the +close of this period of enormous work. The decoration +of the Sistine Chapel now consisted, firstly, on the flat +of the vault, of Michael Angelo's history of the Creation +and the Fall of Man, of the Punishment of the Flood, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page166">[pg 166]</span><a name="Pg166" id="Pg166" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>and the Second Entry of Sin into the World; secondly, +on the pendentives, of the Prophets and Sibyls proclaiming +the coming of a Redeemer; and thirdly, of the Ancestors of +Christ, filling the arches of the windows and the arches on +the two end walls. Those on the altar wall are now covered +by angels bearing the instruments of the Passion of Christ, +parts of the great fresco of the Last Judgment, finished +by Michael Angelo thirty years afterwards. At Oxford +there are two drawings after these two destroyed frescoes +of the Ancestors of Christ series. Fourthly, at the four +corners the four great Deliverances of the Chosen People, +emblems of the Redemption; fifthly, below, between the +windows, a row of the figures of the Popes by Sandro Botticelli +and others; these are still in existence, except the +three that were on the wall of the high altar, now occupied +by the Last Judgment. They were the earliest of the +Popes, St. Peter probably in the centre. Lastly, below +again, the great series of frescoes of the History of Christ +and the History of Moses by Sandro Botticelli, Domenico del +Ghirlandaio, Cosimo Rosselli, Pietro Perugino, Bernardino +Pintoricchio, Luca Signorelli, and Bartolomeo della Gatta. +This splendid series forms a worthy predella to the epic work +of Michael Angelo above; that they are worthy the one +of the other is the highest compliment that can be paid +to either. These stories well repay prolonged study, and +help to keep our mind fresh to enjoy the idea of the advance +Michael Angelo made in the art of painting. It is very +instructive to compare his work with these frescoes of men +who were almost his contemporaries. Above the altar three +of this series were destroyed to make way for the Last +Judgment; they were all three by Perugino, and represented +the Assumption of the Virgin in the centre, the Nativity +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page167">[pg 167]</span><a name="Pg167" id="Pg167" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>on the right, and the finding of Moses on the left. At +the opposite end, over the great door, were two pictures +by Domenico del Ghirlandaio, representing the Resurrection +of Christ, and Michael contending with Satan for the +Body of Moses, completing the series of the lives of the +Redeemer and of his prototype in the Old Testament: +Moses, the Deliverer. These last two works were destroyed +for the ridiculous caricatures of Arrigo Fiammingo and +Mattei da Lecce. Ultimately the Tapestry woven after +the cartoons by Raphael, now at South Kensington Museum, +completed the cycle of decoration down to the ground +level.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image25" id="image25" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig67" id="fig67"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image25.png" width="480" height="622" alt="Image #25" title="THE PROPHET EZEKIEL" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">THE PROPHET EZEKIEL</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">SISTINE CHAPEL, ROME<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission of the Fratelli Alinari, Florence</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When Pope Julius prevented Michael Angelo from +going on with his beloved project of the Tomb and made +him paint the vault, the master set to work to produce a +similar conception to the Tomb in a painted form. The +vault became a great temple of painted marble and +painted sculptures raised in mid-air above the walls of the +chapel. The cornices and pilasters are of simple Renaissance +architecture, the only ornaments he allowed himself +to use being similar to those he would have used as a +sculptor. Acorns, the family device of the della Rovere, +rams' skulls, and scallop shells, and the one theme of +decoration that Michael Angelo always delighted in—the +human figure. The Prophets and Sibyls took the positions +occupied by the principal figures designed for the Tomb, +like the great statue of Moses. The Athletes at the corner +of the ribs of the roof were in place of the bound captives, +two of which are now in the Louvre, and the nine +histories of the Creation and the Flood fill the panels like +the bronze reliefs of the Tomb. The detail and completeness +of this fresco are the best refutation of the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page168">[pg 168]</span><a name="Pg168" id="Pg168" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>frequent criticism that Michael Angelo did not finish his +work. The fact is, that he finished more than any one. +Had Michael Angelo done no work but this vault of the +Sistine Chapel, it would have represented an output equal +in quantity alone to that of the most prolific of his brother +Italian artists. It is veritably a large picture-gallery of +his works in itself. An idea of its numerical magnitude +may be got by dividing it up into its component units and +making an inventory of them. The vault itself, according +to Heath Wilson, is one hundred and thirty-one feet six +inches long, by forty-five feet two and a half inches wide +at the large door end, and forty-three feet two and a half +inches at the altar end, an area of nearly six thousand +square feet, which apparently does not represent the +arch measurement but only the plane covered by the arch, +nor does it take account of the triangular and semicircular +spaces above the windows. This vast surface is divided +into:—</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Four large pictures stretching over more than one-third +of the width of the roof, and containing from five to more +than forty-five figures, some of them twelve feet in height.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Five pictures, half the size of the last, with from one +to eight figures in each.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Twenty colossal nude figures of Athletes.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ten circular medallions.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Seven large figures of Prophets.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Five large figures of Sibyls; these Prophets and Sibyls +would be eighteen feet high if they stood upright, and +most of them have secondary figures of angel boys between +them, twenty-three in all.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Twenty-four decorative pilasters of two children each, +in monochrome.</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page169">[pg 169]</span><a name="Pg169" id="Pg169" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image26" id="image26" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig68" id="fig68"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image26.png" width="480" height="616" alt="Image #26" title="THE PROPHET DANIEL" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">THE PROPHET DANIEL</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">SISTINE CHAPEL, ROME<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission of the Fratelli Alinari, Florence</span></span>)</p></div> + + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Four large triangular compositions representing the +Redemptions of Israel, and containing from five to twenty-two +colossal figures.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Eight triangular spaces above the windows, representing +the Ancestors of Christ, containing from two to four +colossal figures.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Twenty-four groups in the semicircular spaces above +the windows, also of the Ancestors of Christ, of from one +to four colossal figures.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ten large figures of children forming brackets under +the figures of Prophets and Sibyls, at the springing of the +arches between the windows.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Twenty-four bronze-coloured colossal figures filling up +the spaces in the architectural framework.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Thus, the vault may be regarded as a gallery of one +hundred and forty-five separate pictures by Michael Angelo. +There is one reservation, and that is, that the twenty-four +groups of two children forming pilasters are in pairs, of the +same outline but reversed; as they are differently lighted +they may still be taken as different pictures. These pilasters +form the sides of the thrones of the Prophets and Sibyls, +and repeating them in reversed outline on either side of +the same throne has a very valuable decorative effect, well +known to the old Italian workmen, who frequently repeated +the forms of their fruit and flower decorations in this +manner, by the expedient of reversing the paper-pricking +from one and the same cartoon. It is interesting to find +Michael Angelo resorting to this simple trick to get the +effect of balance in figure decoration. The light and shade +of the reversed figures follow the general scheme of the +illumination, so that the figures traced from the same +cartoons look very dissimilar when painted, but if the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page170">[pg 170]</span><a name="Pg170" id="Pg170" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>outlines are traced from a photograph, and reversed on the +corresponding figures, they will be seen to coincide. It +seems impossible to explain the exactness in any other +way, a few measurements on the vault itself would make +it certain. Probably the same method was employed in +transferring the twenty-four bronze-coloured decorative +figures also.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The historical sequence of the events in the nine pictures +on the central space of the vault represents the Story of the +Creation, the Fall, the Flood, and the second entry of Sin into +the world, demonstrating the need for a scheme of Salvation, +promised by the Prophets and Sibyls in the second part of +the decoration. The series represented is an old invention, +and all the scenes may be found in Byzantine and early +Italian works; but the new treatment gives them a character +of grandeur only equalled by the Old Testament narrative +which they illustrate. All the human figures and most of +the angels appear to be dominated by an idea of impending +doom, but they nobly act their part in a fateful present, +although they know that the future cannot be changed +by any effort of theirs, however noble it may be. They +are all fatalists, but all noble in their pessimism; they +reflect the mind of the artist. The individual motives of +the figures, their grouping and their action, are frequently +taken from earlier art, especially sculpture, and they show +how carefully and reverently Michael Angelo studied the +works of his predecessors, Massaccio, Lorenzo Ghiberti, +Donatello, and Jacopo della Quercia.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image27" id="image27" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig69" id="fig69"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image27.png" width="480" height="523" alt="Image #27" title="THE LIBYAN SIBYL" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">THE LIBYAN SIBYL</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">SISTINE CHAPEL, ROME<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">Reproduced by permission from a Photograph by Sig. Anderson, Rome</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image28" id="image28" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig70" id="fig70"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image28.png" width="480" height="625" alt="Image #28" title="THE PROPHET JEREMIAH" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">THE PROPHET JEREMIAH</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">SISTINE CHAPEL, ROME<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission of the Fratelli Alinari, Florence</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The first division above the High Altar represents the +creation of light. God separates light from darkness, and +brings order out of chaos. In the second division, one of +the larger pictures, God creates the sun and moon; He +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page171">[pg 171]</span><a name="Pg171" id="Pg171" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>passes on and spreads His hand in blessing over a segment +of the earth where the trees and herbs spring forth. In +the third, God gathers together in one place the waters +which were under the firmament. In these works Michael +Angelo designed a figure of the Creator that has remained +ever since the only possible pictorial symbol of God the +Father. He is like an old man in appearance and in +wisdom, but as alert and powerful as a young man. The +creation of Adam is the central composition of the ceiling. +The Deity, accompanied by six angels, gives life to Adam +by the touch of finger tips. The figure of Adam is the +most beautiful in modern art. It appears to have been +inspired by a Greek intaglio. The angels are much varied +in type. They are without the tinsel and gold embroidery +used by earlier artists to represent celestial glory. +The simple and solemn lines of the landscape showing the +curved surface of the globe give a cosmic character to the +scene, and the beautiful indigo blue of the distance forms +a fine background for the supremely modelled flesh. This +composition is the first in the order of execution in which +Michael Angelo fully realised his scheme of decoration, +as to scale and form, making a few figures fill the +space allotted to them with ease and freedom of movement. +Truly the space occupied appears to have been +arranged and cut specially to suit the figures, and not the +figures made, as was the fact, to fit the space. The next +compartment, the creation of Eve, is only less beautiful +than that of the Adam. It is small, and the space is a +little crowded: the composition is taken exactly from the +beautiful bas-relief by Jacopo della Quercia at Bologna. +The Almighty is shrouded in a voluminous mantle; Eve +joins her hands in worship. The figure is modelled with +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page172">[pg 172]</span><a name="Pg172" id="Pg172" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>a delicious softness, and the pearly colour is a delightful +rendering of the lighter flesh tints of woman, something +like the quality sought by Correggio in later times. The +Adam reclining in the corner fills that part of the space as +a good medal design fits its circumference; the grey of the +shadow, especially in the darker parts, envelops the figures +in a way that had never been attempted in fresco painting, +but is somewhat like a hand in shadow by Rembrandt. The +representations of the Fall and the Expulsion fill the next +compartment, a large one. Here we have another rendering +of a female nude; the type, and especially the modelling of +the flank, is a prophecy of the figure of Dawn in the Sacristy +of San Lorenzo. The upper part of the serpent has a woman's +form, and the junction is most admirably managed after +the manner of the sea maidens in Græco-Roman art. In +this story is the only foreground tree in full leaf ever +painted by Michael Angelo, and yet it is as supreme as +everything else. It is remarkable that the Paradise of +Michael Angelo should be such a rocky place, like the +side of a marble mountain, for in his time such places were +regarded with distaste. The landscape into which Adam +and Eve are expelled is a lone flat desert, where no +marble could be found. This part of the composition is +taken almost exactly from Massaccio's version in the +Brancacci Chapel. The Sacrifice of Noah fills the next, +a smaller compartment. It is placed, historically, before +the Deluge, and must be taken to represent how Noah, +the just man and perfect, and his family, found grace +in the eyes of the Lord. As there are five male persons +present, this scene cannot represent the sacrifice immediately +after the Flood, nor is any rainbow to be seen as +was usual in the traditional representations of that subject, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page173">[pg 173]</span><a name="Pg173" id="Pg173" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>like the one in the Chiostro Verde at Santa Maria Novella. +Raphael also gives more figures than can be accounted for +as having been in the ark in his composition of the sacrifice +of Noah, in the series called the Bible of Raphael in the +Loggia. The large composition of the Deluge gives us +some idea of what the cartoon of Pisa may have been like. +There never was a collection of naked figures so many +and so beautiful. One is filled with sorrow at the idea of +their being drowned. They are all, too, engaged in noble +works; charity, energy, and inventiveness are amongst +the virtues they exhibit; there is no panic, or struggling +one with another; no anger or selfishness, excepting +only in the boat in the middle distance; a woman helps +her children, a man his wife, an old man bears a young +man in his arms, Priam carrying Æneas, an even more +pathetic imagination than Homer's; others attempt to +save their household goods; others erect a tent; others, +again, attempt to scale the sides of the ark or break into +it with axes—one cannot but hope they will succeed. The +female figures are especially beautiful in this picture, and +again we have a foretaste of that wonderful modelling of +the flank and thigh seen to perfection in the tombs at San +Lorenzo. The weird sea and sky, the ark and the dead +tree, show what Michael Angelo could do when he liked, +in departments of art other than the human figure. +The individual figures in the Deluge are difficult to see +on account of the smallness of scale in this part of the +vault. It must have been after seeing them from the floor +of the chapel, by removing some of the boards of his +scaffolding, that Michael Angelo determined to alter the +scale in the remaining compositions. In no other way can +we account for the change in the size of the Athletes, at +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page174">[pg 174]</span><a name="Pg174" id="Pg174" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>any rate. The difference of scale between those surrounding +the Sin of Ham over the large door, and those surrounding +the separation of Light from Darkness over the +High Altar, must be almost two feet. The increase is +gradual along the ceiling. Similarly the Sybilla Delphica +is very much smaller than the Sybilla Lybica, and the +Prophet Joel than the Prophet Jeremiah. The last composition +of this series—a small one—represents the Sin of +Ham, and was the first painted. The vat and the wine jug +are wonderful still-life, reminding us of Bassano.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image29" id="image29" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig71" id="fig71"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image29.png" width="480" height="343" alt="Image #29" title="THE FLOOD" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">THE FLOOD</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">A DETAIL, SISTINE CHAPEL, ROME<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">Reproduced by permission from a photograph by Sig. D. Anderson, Rome</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The twenty Athletes that decorate the corners of these +central compositions, and support bronze medallions held in +place by oak garlands or by draperies, are nothing but the +most direct of transcripts from the nude model, but the most +noble that have been executed in the art of painting. They +are finished to the smallest detail, and are as truthful to +nature as it was possible for a man with an innate sense of +grandeur of line to make them. Italian models have been +posed in the positions of most of them, and drawings from +them compared with the photographs of these figures; they +are marvellously true, to the very wrinkles of the skin under +the arms and about the knees, and the drawing of the +curves and creases of the torso as the body bends. So +naturalistic are they that Michael Angelo must have posed +a model and made drawings in the chapel itself, perhaps +even on the scaffolding, and worked straight away. He +appears to have used only three models for this purpose. +The Athletes drawn from the same model can easily be +distinguished; they are actual portraits. One was the +man who sat for the Adam, and was of a noble proportion +with a small head, a beautiful brow, and a solemn +mouth. His hair was wavy and of a wispy character; he +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page175">[pg 175]</span><a name="Pg175" id="Pg175" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>had broad shoulders; his extremities were small, the thighs +large and well developed, showing the individual muscles +by large forms with flat planes. He may be seen, as we +have said, in the Adam, and in the four figures surrounding +the fresco representing God dividing the Light +from the Darkness; in the two figures near the Adam in +his creation of Eve; and best of all, for comparison, +in the figures near the foot of Adam in the creation +of Man. Another model was of a rounder and more +bacchanalian character, not unlike the Dancing Fawn in the +Uffizi; but he was not in such good training. He was decidedly +fat, his face was mobile, and very easily took jovial +expressions, his cheeks dimpled, his eyes round and large, +the pupils very dark and the whites very white; his hair +went into short, soft, frizzy curls; his shoulders were small and +round, the arms feeble, the thighs short, round, and formless; +his back was well developed, the folds of the skin in the +torso, when he bent, were very large and fat in line. It +was probably for this that Michael Angelo chose him. +He is well seen in three of the figures surrounding the +third panel from the High Altar representing The Spirit +of God upon the Face of the Waters, and the two figures +nearest to the Adam and Eve in the scene of the Expulsion. +The other model was of more ordinary but of still +very fine proportion. His head was rather large, and his +mouth petulant in expression, the upper eyelids very thick; +his hair is broken into large, hard curls. He is seen in the +figures surrounding the Sin of Ham, and was probably +the first employed for this work. These Athletes are the very +epitome of the work of Michael Angelo. If a man does +not love them he cannot care for the work of Michael +Angelo. They express his highest idea of beauty—man +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page176">[pg 176]</span><a name="Pg176" id="Pg176" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>created in the image of God, as he testifies in this vault, +and in the sonnet ending:—</p> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Nè Dio, suo grazia, mi si mostra altrove,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Più che'n alcun leggiadro e mortal velo;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">E quel sol amo, perchè'n quel si specchia.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Nor hath God deigned to show himself elsewhere</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">More clearly than in human form sublime</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Which, since they image Him, alone I love.<a id="noteref_118" name="noteref_118" href="#note_118"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">118</span></span></a></div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">No leaves or branches, minor works of the Great Artist, +still less draperies of cloth or even of gold brocade, the +works of the hand of man, shall cover any portion of the +Divine Image. So all these figures are frankly naked, the +genii of the Beauty of the Human Race.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The festoons these Athletes carry support large medallions +painted like bronze. They were probably the portion +that Michael Angelo intended to finish with gilding, but +owing to the impatience of the Pope they were left in their +present state. They are a most valuable part of the +decorative scheme. Continuity is given by the repetition +of these bronze-coloured circles.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image30" id="image30" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig72" id="fig72"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image30.png" width="480" height="361" alt="Image #30" title="THE BRAZEN SERPENT" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">THE BRAZEN SERPENT</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">SISTINE CHAPEL, ROME<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission of the Fratelli Alinari, Florence</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A great cornice divides the scheme of the flat part of +the vault already described, and perhaps the first portion +executed, from the curved part containing the Prophets +and Sibyls. They are larger in scale and freer in style +than any portion of the flat part of the vault, as though +with practice Michael Angelo's hand had grown even +bolder than before. He may, too, have thought the new +scale of figures easier to see from the floor of the chapel, +for we must remember that this was his first experiment +in vault painting, and no doubt he would be glad to see +its effect from below when he was ordered to remove the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page177">[pg 177]</span><a name="Pg177" id="Pg177" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>scaffolding, and he must have learnt by it. The Prophets +and Sibyls appear to be the last word of Michael Angelo +in decorative painting, as Raphael knew, for he assimilated +the teaching both in the beautiful figures of Sibyls at Santa +Maria della Pace and the Prophet Isaiah of San Agostino. +The motives of the genii or angels, wise children whispering +in the ears of the foretellers, seem to be inspired by the +sculpture of Giovanni Pisano as seen in the pilasters of the +pulpit of the Church of San Andrea at Pistoia.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It would be endless to try and tell all the thoughts +and emotions, both literary and artistic, suggested by the +contemplation of these figures and by the groups representing +the Ancestors of Christ. Suffice it to say, that all the +thoughts that come into the minds of the beholders are +as nothing compared to the thoughts that passed through +the mind of the solitary artist composing and painting +upon the high scaffolding of the quiet chapel.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The series of the Ancestors of Christ illustrate the life of +a being upon this earth, from the terrible moment when the +pregnant woman first feels the pangs of approaching labour, +in the semicircle of the window (inscribed Roboam, Abias) +to the lean and slippered pantaloon, who needs a stick to +help him rise from his seat (over the window inscribed +Salmon, Boaz, Obeth); there is the happy mother sleeping +with her infant wrapped in swaddling-clothes (Salmon, +Boaz, Obeth); and the old man playing with the children, +(Eleazr, Matthew); the student attentively poring over +his book regardless of the female figure, possibly Inspiration, +speaking to him from the other side of the window +(Naason). These figures, the Ancestors of Christ, are more +slightly painted than the rest of the vault. They loom +out of the darkness, caused by contrast to the light of the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page178">[pg 178]</span><a name="Pg178" id="Pg178" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>windows they surround, grow in and out of the background +and have an atmospheric effect unequalled in +fresco painting. Those who walk from the Ponte Saint +Angelo up the Borgo to the Vatican any morning early +may see at the back of the dim recesses of the arched +cellar-like shops such groups as these. The series may be +regarded as the sketch-book of Michael Angelo, in which +he recorded his impressions of the life about him as he +trudged to his work.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The four triangular compositions that fill the corners of +the chapel, the four great Redemptions of Israel, are +absolute masterpieces of space arrangement, different +methods of overcoming the same difficulty being used in +each picture, from the two principal figures and the tent +in the David and Goliath to the marvellous crowd of +twisted limbs in the story of the Brazen Serpent. In the +composition of the Death of Holofernes Judith covers with +a napkin the severed head, which is carried in a basket on +the head of her handmaid; a most lovely group, said to +have been taken from an intaglio representing a vintage +scene, in which a nymph fills with grapes a basket supported +on the head of a companion.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Under each of the Prophets and Sibyls, upon the side +walls, is a decorative putto supporting the name plate, +standing at the springing of the arches, as in Donatello's +bas-relief representing Christ before Pilate, in the pulpit +of San Lorenzo. These ten beautiful figures are seldom +noticed, but evidently Raphael thought them worthy of +study, as may be seen in the lovely child-figure attributed +to him in the Accademia di San Lucca.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image31" id="image31" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig73" id="fig73"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image31.png" width="480" height="621" alt="Image #31" title="JUDITH WITH THE HEAD OF HOLOFERNES" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">JUDITH WITH THE HEAD OF HOLOFERNES</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">SISTINE CHAPEL, ROME<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission of Messrs. Braun, Clement & Co., in Dornach, Alsace</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The whole vault contains hardly one unworthy human +being, the only sins they commit are the Sins of Adam +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page179">[pg 179]</span><a name="Pg179" id="Pg179" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>and of Ham, necessary for the story. They are all beautiful +and all holy. Can Michael Angelo have had any thought +of the doom of these his creations, as exemplified by him +on the altar wall, twenty-two years afterwards? The great +work was finished, the public saw it, and, as Michael +Angelo says, "the Pope was very well pleased."</p> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc74" id="toc74"></a><a name="pdf75" id="pdf75"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page180">[pg 180]</span><a name="Pg180" id="Pg180" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">CHAPTER VII</span></h2> + +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.40em; margin-top: 2.40em"><span style="font-size: 120%">THE RISEN CHRIST OF THE MINERVA</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Julius II. died on February 21, 1513. He will ever be +remembered as the man who compelled Michael Angelo to +paint the Sistine vault. He was the best friend Michael +Angelo ever had, notwithstanding their bickerings, and he +understood him as no one ever did afterwards; but he +bequeathed to him the Tragedy of the Tomb. In 1514 +Michael Angelo signed the agreement for a new commission:—</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"Deed with Michael Angelo for the figure in +marble<a id="noteref_119" name="noteref_119" href="#note_119"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">119</span></span></a> of a Risen Christ for the Church of the Minerva, +in Rome. The 14 day of June, 1514. Let it be known +and manifest to whoever reads this scrip, how Messere +Bernardo Cencio, Canon of St. Peter's, and Messeri Mario +Scappucci and Metello Vari, have ordered Michael Angelo +di Lodovico Simoni, Sculptor, to carve a figure in marble +of Christ as large as life, nude, standing, bearing a cross, +in whatever attitude the said Michael Angelo thinks good, +for the price of two hundred gold ducats of the Camera, +to be paid in this manner, that is to say: At the present +time one hundred and fifty gold ducats of the Camera, +and the remainder, that is fifty similar ducats, the said +Messeri Mario and Metello delli Vari promise to pay when +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page181">[pg 181]</span><a name="Pg181" id="Pg181" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>the work is finished. As soon as the said Michael Angelo +begins to work on the said figure, which he promises to +place in the Minerva in whatever position the before-mentioned +shall approve; and at his own expense to make +a niche where the said figure is to be placed; and every +other adornment that should be needful, it is understood +that the before-mentioned Messer Bernardo and Messer +Mario shall supply at their own expense. This figure the +said Michael Angelo promises to do by the end of the +next four years, more or less as appears to him good, +engaging, however, that he will not exceed four years."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image32" id="image32" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig76" id="fig76"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image32.png" width="480" height="610" alt="Image #32" title="ONE OF THE ANCESTORS OF CHRIST, OVER THE WINDOW INSCRIBED "JESSE"" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">ONE OF THE ANCESTORS OF CHRIST, OVER THE WINDOW +INSCRIBED "JESSE"</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">SISTINE CHAPEL, ROME<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission of the Fratelli Alinari, Florence</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Then follow their affirmations in due form. Metello +Vari dei Porcari, a Roman of an old family, appears to +have been the real patron to whom Michael Angelo was +responsible. The first block of marble was found to be +faulty, so another one had to be carved. The work was +not completed until 1521. It is now in the Church of +Santa Maria Sopra Minerva at Rome.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In 1515 Michael Angelo was still at work on the +Tomb, but apprehensive of interruption from Pope Leo.</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">To</span></span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Buonarroto di Lodovico Simoni</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, </span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">in Florence</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Buonarroto</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">,—I have written the letter to Filipo +Strozzi; see if you like it and give it to him. If it is not +well, I know he will hold me excused, for it is not my profession; +enough if it serves its purpose. I wish you to go +to the Spedalingo</span><a id="noteref_120" name="noteref_120" href="#note_120"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">120</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 90%"> of Santa Maria Nuova, and tell him to +pay to me here one thousand and four hundred ducats of +what he has of mine, because I must make a great effort +this summer to finish my work quickly, because I expect +</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page182">[pg 182]</span><a name="Pg182" id="Pg182" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">soon to have to enter the Pope's service. And for this I +have bought perhaps twenty thousands of bronze for casting +certain figures. I must have money; so when you see +this arrange with the Spedalingo to have it paid over to +me; and if you are able to arrange with Pier Francesco +Borgerini, who is there, that he should have it paid to me +by his people here, I should be glad, for Pier Francesco +is my friend and will serve me well; and do not talk +about it for I wish it to be paid to me here secretly; and +for what remains at Santa Maria Nuova, accept security +from the Spedalingo, on account. I wait for the money. +No more.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"On the 16th day of June, 1515.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Michael Angelo</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, in Rome."</span><a id="noteref_121" name="noteref_121" href="#note_121"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">121</span></span></a></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">So now, besides the Moses and the Captives in marble, +the panels in relief were, perhaps, ready for casting. The +lower portions of the architectural base, now in San +Pietro in Vincula, were also probably finished. Half the +period spent by Michael Angelo in quarrying and road-making +for Pope Leo would have sufficed for the completion +of the Tomb, which would then have been a monument +of Michael Angelo's power as a sculptor, fit to rank +with the monument of his power as a painter in the Sistine +Chapel: a monument containing four figures, equal +in execution and size to the Moses, twelve figures like the +Slaves, altogether some forty statues and numerous bronze +bas-reliefs besides. It is a great misfortune that we have +no bronze bas-reliefs by Michael Angelo, for all his works +prove that his genius would have been well expressed in +this art.</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page183">[pg 183]</span><a name="Pg183" id="Pg183" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image33" id="image33" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig77" id="fig77"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image33.png" width="480" height="561" alt="Image #33" title="ONE OF THE ANCESTORS OF CHRIST, OVER THE WINDOW INSCRIBED "IORAM"" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">ONE OF THE ANCESTORS OF CHRIST, OVER THE WINDOW +INSCRIBED "IORAM"</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">Reproduced by permission from a photograph by Sig. D. Anderson, Rome</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The early years of the Pontificate of Leo X. were +wasted over the project for the facade of San Lorenzo. +Michael Angelo was continually at Carrara. In a letter, +dated May 8, 1517, to Domenico Buoninsegna, Michael +Angelo writes with enthusiasm about his new scheme, and +undertakes to carry it out for 35,000 golden ducats in six +years. Buoninsegna replied that the Cardinal expressed +the highest satisfaction at "the great heart he had for +conducting the work of the façade." The friendly relations +of Michael Angelo with the natives of Carrara continued +until the Pope obliged him to leave their quarries and +open up those of Pietra Santa, in Tuscan territory, by +which act Michael Angelo lost much time. He had positively +to make roads down the mountains and over the +marshes before he could get a single block to the river. +The Marquis of Carrara became his enemy, and the +contracts with the people of Carrara caused him much +annoyance and great loss. The orders from Rome were +peremptory and had to be obeyed.<a id="noteref_122" name="noteref_122" href="#note_122"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">122</span></span></a> Ten years of the best +of Michael Angelo's working life were wasted; the numberless +delays of this period, and the delays over the Tomb of +Julius, positively seem to have changed the character of +the artist from a man of action to a man of thought. +Possibly advancing age had something to do with it; but +the fact remains that the man who executed the bronze +statue of Julius in two years, and painted the vault of the +Sistine in less than three years, took seven years to finish +the Last Judgment, which covers a surface about one-third +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page184">[pg 184]</span><a name="Pg184" id="Pg184" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>the extent of the vault, and also is in a much more favourable +position for painting.</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"> </div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">There is a document shown in the rooms of the State +Archives at the Uffizi that belongs to this period; it +is a memorial addressed by the Florentine Academy to +Pope Leo X., asking him to authorise the translation of +the bones of Dante from Ravenna, where they still rest +under "the little cupola, more neat than solemn," to +Florence. It is dated October 20, 1518. All but one of the +signatures appended are written in Latin; that one is as +follows:—"I, Michael Angelo, the sculptor, pray the like of +your Holiness, offering my services to the divine poet for +the erection of a befitting sepulchre to him in some honour-place +in this city." Michael Angelo's devotion to Dante +was well known to his contemporaries; he is known to +have filled a book with drawings to illustrate the "Divina +Com media"; this volume perished at sea, whilst in the +possession of the sculptor Antonio Montanti, who was +shipwrecked on a journey from Leghorn to Rome.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">On April 17, 1517, Michael Angelo bought some +ground in the Via Mozza, now Via San Zanobi, Florence, +from the Chapter of Santa Maria del Fiore, to build a +workshop for finishing his marbles; the purchase was completed +on November 24, 1518. This studio remained in his +possession until his death. He describes it to Lionardo di +Compago, the saddle-maker, as an excellent workshop, +where twenty statues can be set up together.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Meanwhile he went on working at Pietra Santa for the +façade. In August 1518, he writes:—--</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image34" id="image34" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig78" id="fig78"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image34.png" width="480" height="616" alt="Image #34" title="ONE OF THE ANCESTORS OF CHRIST, OVER THE WINDOW INSCRIBED "ASA"" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">ONE OF THE ANCESTORS OF CHRIST, OVER THE WINDOW +INSCRIBED "ASA"</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission of the Fratelli Alinari, Florence</span></span>)</p></div> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"The place of quarrying is very rugged, and the workmen +are very ignorant of this sort of work. So for some +</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page185">[pg 185]</span><a name="Pg185" id="Pg185" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">months I must be very patient until the mountains are +tamed and the men are mastered. Then we shall get on +more quickly. Enough, what I have promised that will I +do by some means, and I will make the most beautiful +thing that has ever been done in Italy if God helps me."</span></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The melancholy end of this scheme is told in a Ricordo +in the Archivio Buonarroti, March 10, 1520.</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"Now Pope Leo, perhaps, to carry out more quickly +the above-mentioned façade of San Lorenzo than according +to the agreement he made with me, and I consenting, +sets me free, and for all the above-said money that I have +received, are counted the road that I have made to Pietra +Santa, and the marbles that were quarried there and rough-hewn +as may be seen to-day; and he declares himself content +and satisfied with me, as is said, about all the money +received for the said façade of San Lorenzo, and every other +work that I have had to do for him until this tenth day of +March, 1519; and so he leaves me my freedom, and not +obliged to render account to any one for anything that I +have had to do for him or with others for him."</span><a id="noteref_123" name="noteref_123" href="#note_123"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">123</span></span></a></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We have a series of most interesting letters from +Sebastiano del Piombo, Michael Angelo's favourite gossip +in Rome; most of them are dated from 1520 to 1533, and +give Michael Angelo at Carrara news of Sebastiano and the +art world of Rome, They often relate to designs that +Sebastiano wished to get from Michael Angelo in order +that he might be entrusted with commissions from the Pope +that would otherwise be given to the scholars of Raphael. +In one, dated October 27, 1520, he says:—</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page186">[pg 186]</span><a name="Pg186" id="Pg186" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"For I know how much the Pope values you, and when +he speaks of you it is as if he were speaking of his own +brother, almost with tears in his eyes; for he has told +me that you were brought up together, and shows that +he knows and loves you. But you frighten everybody, +even Popes!"</span><a id="noteref_124" name="noteref_124" href="#note_124"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">124</span></span></a></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Michael Angelo seems to have taken exception to the +remark, for Sebastiano in his next letter but one says:—</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"As to what you reply to me about your terribleness, I +for my part do not find you terrible; and if I have not +written to you about this, do not wonder, for you do not +appear to me terrible except only in art—that is to say, +the greatest master that has ever been; so it seems to me +if I am in error I am to blame. I have no more to say. +Christ keep you safe. 9th day of November, 1520. +Remember me to friend Leonardo and to Master Pier +Francesco.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"Your most faithful gossip,</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Bastiano</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, Painter, in Rome.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"The Lord Michael Angelo de Bonarotis, the most +worthy sculptor, Florence."</span><a id="noteref_125" name="noteref_125" href="#note_125"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">125</span></span></a></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After Michael Angelo had been dismissed from the +work of the façade of San Lorenzo he appears to have +remained quietly at Florence, possibly engaged upon the +marbles for the Tomb of Julius II. About the same +time, at the instigation of the Cardinal de' Medici, he +began to design the new sacristy and the tombs at San +Lorenzo.</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page187">[pg 187]</span><a name="Pg187" id="Pg187" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image50" id="image50" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig79" id="fig79"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image50.png" width="480" height="621" alt="Image #50" title="THE PROPHET JONAH" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">THE PROPHET JONAH</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">SISTINE CHAPEL, ROME<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission of the Fratelli Alinari, Florence</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the Ricordi, which run from April 9 to August +19, 1521, he says that on April 9 he received two +hundred ducats from the Cardinal de' Medici to go to +Carrara and lodge there, to quarry marbles for the tombs +which are to be placed in the new sacristy at San Lorenzo. +"And there I stayed about twenty days and made out +drawings to scale, and measured models in clay for the +said tombs." On August 16 the contractors for the +blocks, all of which were excavated from the old Roman +quarry of Polvaccio, came to Florence, and were paid on +account.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The statue of the "Risen Christ" was forwarded to Rome +during the summer. The smaller detached, or more easily +broken portions, were left in the rough to prevent accidents +during the journey, and Pietro Urbino went to +Rome with orders to complete the work there. Sebastiano +del Piombo, like the good friend he was, kept Michael +Angelo informed of the progress of the young scamp of a +pupil, from whom his master had extracted a promise that +he would avoid the company of dissolute Florentines in +Rome more than he had previously done. On November 9, +1520, Sebastiano writes that his gossip, Giovanni da +Reggio, "goes about saying that you have not done the +figure yourself, but that it is the work of Pietro Urbino. +Be sure that it may be seen to be from your hand, so that +poltroons and babblers may burst." This was written +whilst the work was still at Florence. On September 6, +1531, after it had arrived at Rome, Sebastiano says of +Pietro: "Firstly, you sent him to Rome with the statue, +to finish and erect it. What he did and did not do you +know; but I must let you understand that wherever he has +worked he has maimed it. Chiefly, he has shortened the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page188">[pg 188]</span><a name="Pg188" id="Pg188" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>right foot, and it is plainly seen that he has cut off the +toes. He has shortened the fingers of the hands, too, more +especially those of the one which holds the cross, the right; +Frizzi says, it seems to have been worked by a cake-maker, +not carved in marble. It looks as if it had been made by +one who worked in dough, it is so stunted. I do not +understand these things, not knowing the manner of working +in marble; but I can very well tell you that those +fingers look to me very stumpy. I can tell you, too, that +it is easy to see he has been working on the beard. I believe +a baby would have had more discretion; it looks as though +he had done the hair with a knife without a point; but +this can easily be remedied. He has also cut one of the +nostrils, so that with a little more the whole nose would +have been spoiled, so that no one but God could have +mended it, and I believe God inspired you to write your +last letter to Master Zovane da Reggio, my comrade, for +if the figure had remained in the hands of Pietro he would +undoubtedly have ruined it." Michael Angelo transferred +the work of finishing from Pietro to Federigo Frizzi. +Sebastiano goes on to say: "Pietro is most malignant +now that he is cast off by you. He does not seem to value +you or any one else alive, but thinks he is a great master; +he will find out what he is fast enough, for I believe the +poor young man will never know how to make statues. +He has forgotten the art. The knees of your statue are +worth more than all Rome."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Frizzi mended up the mistakes and finished the work +on the hair, face, hands, feet, cross, and the parts undercut. +Michael Angelo was evidently anxious as to the result +of this touching up, and as he was much attached to +Vari, he offered to make a new statue, but the courtly +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page189">[pg 189]</span><a name="Pg189" id="Pg189" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Roman replied that he was entirely satisfied with the one +he had received. He regarded it and esteemed it as a +thing of gold, and said that Michael Angelo's offer proved +his noble soul and generosity, inasmuch as when he had +already made what could not be surpassed and was incomparable, +he still wanted to serve his friend better.<a id="noteref_126" name="noteref_126" href="#note_126"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">126</span></span></a></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This Christ of the Minerva is like a late Greek embodiment +of the Christian ideal; it is a work that has +been a good deal criticised, particularly as to the details, +which the letters just quoted prove to have been finished +by assistants away from the supervision of the master. +The arms and torso, and, as Sebastiano justly says, the +knees, are very splendid, and if the spoiled head and +extremities were broken away the fragment, that is to +say, the part really executed by the master, would be as +famous as many a fine work of Greece or of Old Rome. +As it stands near a column in the centre of the church in +a subdued light it has a presence of great beauty and +sweetness, never allied with so much power before, notwithstanding +that brazen draperies and a sandal hide much of +the reverent workmanship.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc80" id="toc80"></a><a name="pdf81" id="pdf81"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page190">[pg 190]</span><a name="Pg190" id="Pg190" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">CHAPTER VIII</span></h2> + +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.40em; margin-top: 2.40em"><span style="font-size: 120%">THE SACRISTY OF SAN LORENZO</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After the death of Leo X., on December 1, 1521, +Adrian IV. was elected to fill the seat of St. Peter. He +was not an Italian and loved not the arts. He is recorded +to have called statues "idols of the Pagans," and he +spent no money on pictures or frescoes. No wonder the +artists who were accustomed to the patronage of the Popes +rejoiced when he died, notwithstanding his goodness, and +hailed his physician as saviour of the Fatherland. The +Cardinal Giuliano de' Medici was elected in his stead, +under the name of Clement VII., and Michael Angelo +expressed the feelings of most of his countrymen and all +the artists when he wrote to his friend, Topolino, at Carrara +"You will have heard how the Medici is made +Pope; it seems to me that all the world is glad of it, so +I imagine that here (Florence) many things will soon be +set going in art. Therefore, serve well and with faithfulness, +so that we may have honour."<a id="noteref_127" name="noteref_127" href="#note_127"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">127</span></span></a></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image35" id="image35" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig82" id="fig82"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image35.png" width="480" height="611" alt="Image #35" title="THE TOMB OF LORENZO DE' MEDICI, DUKE OF URBINO" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">THE TOMB OF LORENZO DE' MEDICI, DUKE OF URBINO</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">THE NEW SACRISTY, SAN LORENZO, FLORENCE<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission of the Fratelli Alinari, Florence</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the year 1523 the Senate of Genoa banked 300 +ducats towards the expenses of a colossal statue of Andrea +Doria, the great sea-captain, to be carved by Michael +Angelo. Unfortunately Michael Angelo was unable to +execute this congenial task. There is a magnificent +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page191">[pg 191]</span><a name="Pg191" id="Pg191" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>portrait of this prince, as Neptune, by Sebastiano del Piombo +in the private rooms of the Doria Palace at Rome. The +admiral points down with Michael Angelesque forefinger +as though he were condemning his enemies to descend to +the lowest depths of the sea. It looks as if it had been +inspired by a drawing of Michael Angelo's, possibly for +this statue, which may have been designed as a nude +figure of Neptune; the parapet in front of the picture +is decorated with a painted bas-relief of a Roman +galley.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Michael Angelo's last known letter to his father is +supposed to have been written in June 1523.<a id="noteref_128" name="noteref_128" href="#note_128"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">128</span></span></a> It is a +bitter complaint of the testy manner in which his father +always treated him, and the continual interruptions of his +work. It must have been a great grief to Michael Angelo +when the old man came to die if he had not made up this +quarrel with him, for he loved him in a way that is marvellous +to us when we consider the character of the old +man as evidenced in the correspondence.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Clement VII. lost no time, after he was elected Pope, +in setting Michael Angelo to work, but again it was +against the inclination of the artist, who passionately +desired to complete the Tomb of Julius, partly for the +love of his memory and partly to free himself from the +importunity of the executors, who threatened him with a +lawsuit. Michael Angelo replied to the agent of Clement, +Francesco Fattucci, who requested plans for the Laurentian +Library: "I understand from your last that his Holiness +our Lord wishes that the design for the Library should be +by my hand. I have heard nothing and do not know +where he wishes it to be built. True, Stefano talked to +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page192">[pg 192]</span><a name="Pg192" id="Pg192" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>me about it, but I did not give my mind to it. When +he returns from Carrara I will inform myself about it +from him, and will do all I can, although it is not my +profession."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Clement, who really seems to have had a regard for the +artist, and wished to bind him to his interests, desired to +provide for him for life. If Michael Angelo would have +consented to make the vows of celibacy he would have +given him an ecclesiastical appointment, failing that he +offered him a pension. Michael Angelo only asked for +fifteen ducats a month. Fattucci, on January 13, 1524, +rebuked him for this modesty, and wrote that "Jacopo +Salviati has given orders that Spina should be instructed +to pay you a monthly provision of fifty ducats." A house +also was assigned to him at San Lorenzo, rent free, that he +might be near his work. Stefano di Tomaso, miniatore, +was Michael Angelo's right-hand man at this time, and his +name continually recurs in the Ricordi. He was not altogether +a satisfactory servant, and in April 1524, Antonio +Mini seems to have taken his place. This helps us to date +the roofing of the sacristy of San Lorenzo, as in an undated +letter to Pope Clement Michael Angelo says that +Stefano finished the lantern and it was universally admired. +This is the work of which it is recorded that when folk +told Michael Angelo it would be better than the lantern +of Brunelleschi, he replied: "Different, perhaps; but +better, no!" In the British Museum there is a drawing +with a bit of advice to young artists, personified in his +new pupil, Antonio Mini. It is in Michael Angelo's own +hand:—</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">Disegna Antonio, disegna Antonio, disegna e non perder tempo.</span></span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">Draw Antonio, draw Antonio, draw and do not lose time.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page193">[pg 193]</span><a name="Pg193" id="Pg193" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>And now in August 1524,<a id="noteref_129" name="noteref_129" href="#note_129"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">129</span></span></a> the Tombs of the Medici +in the new sacristy were fairly under way. There are several +preliminary designs in the Print Room of the British +Museum, the Albertina at Vienna, and the Uffizi, Florence.<a id="noteref_130" name="noteref_130" href="#note_130"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">130</span></span></a> +The first idea was for the tombs to be isolated in +the centre of the chapel, but we gather from a letter, +written in May 1524,<a id="noteref_131" name="noteref_131" href="#note_131"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">131</span></span></a> that it had already been decided +to have mural monuments. The sarcophagi were to support +portrait statues of the Dukes and Popes, of Lorenzo +and his brother Giuliano. At the foot were to be six +rivers, two under each tomb—the Arno, Tiber, Metauro, +Po, Taro, and Ticino. The drawings go to prove that +the architectural background, as we see it now, is as incomplete +as it looks. Some of the drawings have elaborate +candlesticks at the top; others a circular panel supported +by putti. In several the first ideas for some of the final +forms may be seen, but one point is very important: +in almost every case the sarcophagi are large enough to +support the figure or figures to be placed upon them, and +never do we see that uncomfortable arrangement by which +the figures appear to be sliding off their supports. Letters +to Fattucci in October 1525, and April 1526,<a id="noteref_132" name="noteref_132" href="#note_132"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">132</span></span></a> give us an +idea of the progress of the works. "I am working as +hard as I can, and in fifteen days I intend to begin the +other captain. Afterwards the only important things left +will be the four rivers. The four figures on the top of the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page194">[pg 194]</span><a name="Pg194" id="Pg194" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>sarcophagi, the four figures on the ground which are the +rivers, the two captains and Our Lady, who is to be placed +upon the tomb at the head of the chapel; these are the +figures I mean to carve with my own hand, and of them I +have begun six; and I have sufficient spirit to finish them +in a convenient time, and bring partially forward the +others which are not of so much importance." The six +he had begun are those that are now in the chapel. The +Giuliano and Lorenzo, Day and Night, Dawn and Evening. +The Madonna, perhaps Michael Angelo's finest work +in sculpture, was also carved by his own hand; the two +other works, now in the chapel representing the patron +saints of the Medici family, Cosmo and Damiano, were +carved by Montelupo and Montorsoli; they do not seem +to have anything of Michael Angelo about them, not even +in design.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Meanwhile Francesco Maria, Duke of Urbino, the +executor of Julius, was pressing the affair of the Tomb; +he threatened a lawsuit to recover money advanced for +the work. Michael Angelo appeals to the Pope in a letter +addressed to Giovanni Spina, of April 19, 1525:—</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image36" id="image36" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig83" id="fig83"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image36.png" width="480" height="416" alt="Image #36" title="THE TOMB OF GIULIANO DE' MEDICI, DUKE OF NEMOURS" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">THE TOMB OF GIULIANO DE' MEDICI, DUKE OF NEMOURS</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">THE NEW SACRISTY, SAN LORENZO, FLORENCE<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission of the Fratelli Alinari, Florence</span></span>)</p></div> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"It seems to me it is no good sending a power of +attorney about the Tomb of Pope Julius, because I do +not want to plead. They cannot bring a suit against +me if I acknowledge that I am in the wrong; so I assume +that I have sued and lost, and have to pay; and this I am +disposed to do if I am able. Therefore, if the Pope will +help me in this, as intermediary, and it would be the greatest +blessing to me, seeing that I am not able to finish the said +Tomb of Julius, both on account of my age and infirmity, +he might express his will that I should repay what I have +</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page195">[pg 195]</span><a name="Pg195" id="Pg195" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">received for doing it, so as to release me of this burden, +and so that the relatives of Pope Julius, with this repayment, +may have the work done to their satisfaction by any +one they like. Thus his Holiness our Lord could please me +very greatly. Still, I wish to pay back as little as possible +in reason. Making them listen to some of my arguments, +such as the time spent for the Pope at Bologna, and other +time lost without any payment, as Ser Giovanni Francesco, +whom I have informed of everything, knows. As soon as +I know clearly what I have to restore, I will make a division +of what I have, sell, and arrange my affairs so as to +repay all. Then I shall be able to think of the Pope's +business, and work. If this is not done I cannot work. +There is no way more safe for myself, nor more agreeable, +nor more likely to clear my spirit. It can be done amicably +without a lawsuit. I pray to God that the Pope may +become willing to arrange it in this fashion, for it does not +seem to me that any one else can do it."</span><a id="noteref_133" name="noteref_133" href="#note_133"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">133</span></span></a></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Michael Angelo had a wholesome fear of the law, not +because he was guilty but because of the power of his +antagonist. There can be no doubt that he was perfectly +honest in these transactions, and, as Pope Clement said, +he was rather creditor than debtor. Clement appears to +have arranged matters to some extent with the executors, +and we have a hint of the new arrangement in a letter by +Michael Angelo to Fattucci,<a id="noteref_134" name="noteref_134" href="#note_134"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">134</span></span></a> dated Florence, October 24, +1525:—</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Messer Giovan Francesco</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">,—In reply to your last, +the four statues I have in hand are not yet finished, and +</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page196">[pg 196]</span><a name="Pg196" id="Pg196" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">much has still to be done upon them. The four others, +for rivers, are not begun, because the marble was wanting, +but now it has come. I do not tell you how because there +is no need. With regard to the affair of Julius, I wish to +make the Tomb like that of Pius in St. Peter's, as you +have written, and will do so little by little, now one piece +and now another, and will pay for it out of my own +pocket, if I hold my pension and my house, as you have +written; that is to say, the house where I lived yonder in +Rome, with the marbles and movables therein. So that +I should not have to give to them, I mean to the heirs +of Julius, in order to be quit of the Tomb contract, anything +of what I have received hitherto, except the said +Tomb, completed, like that of Pius in Saint Peter's. +Moreover, I undertake to perform the work within a +reasonable time, and to finish the statues with my own +hand." He now turns to his annoyances at San Lorenzo: +"And given my pension as was said, I will never stop +working for Pope Clement with what strength I have, +though that be little, for I am old. At the same time I +must not be slighted and affronted as I am now, for it +weighs greatly on my spirits, and has prevented me from +doing what I wished to do these many months; one cannot +work at one thing with the hands, and at another with +the brain, and especially in marble. 'Tis said here that +these annoyances are meant to spur me on; but I maintain +that those are scurvy spurs that make a good steed +jib. I have not touched my pension during the last year, +and struggle with poverty. I am alone in my troubles, +and have many of them, which keep me more busy +than my art, for I cannot keep a servant for lack of +means."</span></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page197">[pg 197]</span><a name="Pg197" id="Pg197" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>There is a kind letter from Michael Angelo to Sebastiano +del Piombo that belongs to this period, May 1525.<a id="noteref_135" name="noteref_135" href="#note_135"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">135</span></span></a> +It refers to a picture by Sebastiano, probably the portrait +of Anton Francesco degli Albizzi, referred to in letter +cccxcvi.:—</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">My Most Dear Sebastiano</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">,—Last evening our friend +the Capitano Cuio</span><a id="noteref_136" name="noteref_136" href="#note_136"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">136</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 90%"> and certain other gentlemen were so +good as to invite me to sup with them, which gave me +very great pleasure, since it took me a little out of my +melancholy, or rather folly. Not only did I enjoy the +supper, which was very good, but I had far more pleasure +in the conversation, and more than all it increased my +pleasure to hear your name mentioned by the said Capitano +Cuio; nor was this all, for it further rejoiced me exceedingly +to hear from the Capitano that, in art, you are peerless +in the world, and that so you were esteemed in Rome. +If I could have rejoiced more I would have done so. So +you see my judgment is not false, therefore do not any +more deny that you are peerless, when I tell it you, for I +have too many witnesses. And behold there is a picture +of yours here, God be thanked, which wins credence for +me with every one who can see daylight."</span></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">From the Ricordi we learn that Michael Angelo was +busy with the Library of San Lorenzo. He had in his +employ stone hewers and masters in various crafts: Tasio +and Carota for wood carving, Battista del Cinque and +Ciapino for carpentry, and Giovanni da Udine, a pupil of +Raphael, for the grotesque decoration for the dome of the +chapel. Clement added a postscript in his own hand to +one of his secretary's letters: "Thou knowest that Popes +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page198">[pg 198]</span><a name="Pg198" id="Pg198" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>have no long lives; and we cannot yearn more than we +do to behold the chapel with the tombs of our kinsmen, +or, at any rate, to hear that it is finished. And so also +the library. Wherefore we recommend both to thy diligence. +Meanwhile we will betake us (as thou said'st +erstwhile) to a wholesome patience, praying God that He +may put it into thy heart to push the whole forward together. +Fear not that either work to do or rewards shall +fail thee while we live. Farewell; with the blessing of +God and ours.—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Julius</span></span>." (Clement signs with his baptismal +name.)<a id="noteref_137" name="noteref_137" href="#note_137"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">137</span></span></a></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Pope set Michael Angelo to make a Sacrarium +for the relics belonging to San Lorenzo. It was placed +above the entrance door of the church, and the details of +that portion of the interior were altered for it. A design +by Michael Angelo at Oxford is for part of these alterations. +Another commission Clement desired Michael +Angelo to undertake was of a curiously absurd character. +Fattucci wrote to say that the Pope wished a colossal +statue to be erected on the piazza of San Lorenzo, opposite +the Stufa Palace. The giant was to top the roof of the +Medician Palace, with its face turned in that direction +and its back to the house of Luigi della Stufa. Being so +huge it would have to be constructed of separate pieces +fitted together. This project, evidently intended as a +truly Florentine insult to the house of Stufa, did not +please Michael Angelo, and his letter, of October 1525, +in reply is an instance of his heavy, elephantine +humour:—</p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page199">[pg 199]</span><a name="Pg199" id="Pg199" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image37" id="image37" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig84" id="fig84"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image37.png" width="480" height="616" alt="Image #37" title="LORENZO DE MEDICI, DUKE OF URBINO" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">LORENZO DE MEDICI, DUKE OF URBINO</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">THE NEW SACRISTY, SAN LORENZO, FLORENCE<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission of the Fratelli Alinari, Florence</span></span>)</p></div> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">To my dear friend</span></span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Messere Giovan Francesco</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, </span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">priest of +Saint Mary of the Flower of Florence, in Rome.</span></span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Messer Giovan Francesco</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">,—If I had as much +strength as I have had pleasure from your last letter, I +should expect to carry out, and that quickly, all the things +you write to me about, but as I have not I will do what I +can.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"About the colossus of forty braccia, of which you tell +me, that is to go, or rather to be erected, at the corner +of the loggia of the Medician garden, opposite the corner +of Messer Luigi della Stufa, I have thought of it not a +little, as you told me, and it seems to me that it would not +do in that corner, for it would take up too much of the +roadway; but in the other corner, where the barber's shop +is, it would turn out much better according to my way of +thinking, because it has the piazza in front of it and would +not be so much in the way; and perhaps as they would not +allow the shop to be removed, for love of the income from +it, I have been thinking that the said figure might be in +a sitting position, and the seat high, the said work to be +hollow within, as is right when working in pieces, so that +the barber's shop would come underneath, and the rent +would not be lost. And again, so that the said shop may +have wherewithal to dispose of its smoke as it has now, it +occurred to me to give the said statue a horn of plenty in +its hand, hollow within, which would serve for the chimney. +Then having the head of the said figure empty, like the +other members, of that also I believe we could make some +use, for there is here in the piazza a huckster, very much my +friend, who tells me in secret that it would make a very +fine dovecot. Another fancy strikes me that would be +</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page200">[pg 200]</span><a name="Pg200" id="Pg200" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">much better, but we should have to make the figure ever +so much larger. And it might be done, for a tower is +built up of pieces; and that is, that the head should serve +as campanile for San Lorenzo, which needs one badly. +And the bells hanging within, the sound clanging from +the mouth, it would seem that the said colossus were +howling for mercy, and especially on feast days, when they +ring oftenest and with the largest bells.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"About the transport for the marbles for the above-mentioned +statue, so that no one shall know of it, meseems +they should come by night and well covered up, so that +they may not be seen. There will be danger at the gates, +and we must provide for it somehow; at the worst, we +shall have San Gallo.</span><a id="noteref_138" name="noteref_138" href="#note_138"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">138</span></span></a></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"As to doing, or not doing, the things that are to do, +and which you say may stand over, it is better to let +them be done by those who will do them, for I have so +much to do that I do not care to undertake more. To +me it will suffice if it be something worthy.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"I do not reply to all you say, for lo Spina comes +shortly to Rome, and will answer your letter by word of +mouth, and more in detail than I can with the pen.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"Your </span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Michael Angelo</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, Sculptor, in Florence."</span></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This letter had its desired effect, nothing more was +heard of the colossus.</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"> </div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Sack of Rome in 1527 by the rabble of Germany +and Spain, called the Imperial army, naturally stopped +all artistic work, for war is the worst enemy of art. +Clement was besieged in the Castle Saint Angelo for nine +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page201">[pg 201]</span><a name="Pg201" id="Pg201" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>months, and the Medici lost their power in Florence. +The Cardinal of Cortona, with the young princes Ippolito +and Alessandro de' Medici, fled, and Niccolo Capponi was +elected President of the Popular Government. Michael +Angelo was in Florence all this time. A Ricordo given in +Lettere, p. 598, says: "I record how, some days ago, Piero +di Filippo Gondi asked to enter the new sacristy at San +Lorenzo to hide there certain goods of his because of the +peril in which we now find ourselves. This evening of the +29th of April, 1527, he has begun to bring in certain +bundles. He says they are linen of his sisters, and I, not +to witness what he does, or where he hides the stuff, have +given him the key of the said sacristy this said evening."</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"> </div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Upon July 2, 1528, Michael Angelo's favourite +brother, Buonarroto, died of the plague. Gotti tells how +Michael Angelo held his brother in his arms<a id="noteref_139" name="noteref_139" href="#note_139"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">139</span></span></a> while he +was dying, notwithstanding the great risk to his own life, +and took care of his family after his death. There are +minutes of the expenses he incurred; the clothes were +burnt to avoid infection; he repaid the widow Bartolommea +her dowry, placed his niece Francesca in a convent +until she was of an age to marry, and provided for his +nephew Lionardo, as if for a son of his own.</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"> </div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The citizens of Florence, fearing the anger of the +Pope and his new allies, now that their power was in +the ascendant, prepared to endure a siege. Michael +Angelo was appointed general over the construction +of the walls and defences of the city in 1529. He had +many difficulties with the council; often they objected +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page202">[pg 202]</span><a name="Pg202" id="Pg202" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>to his plan of fortifying the heights of San Miniato. +Michael Angelo went to Pisa and Arezzo to superintend +the strengthening of the works there. He was sent also to +Ferrara with letters from the Signori and the Ten to the +Duke, the greatest Italian authority upon fortification, +and to their envoy, Galeotto Giugni, who wrote to inform +the Florentines that Michael Angelo refused to abandon +the inn and receive the hospitality of the Duke, who with +great honour personally conducted him over the fortresses +and walls of Ferrara; no doubt at the same time showing +him his art collections. It would be interesting to know if +Michael Angelo looked upon the portrait-head of Julius II., +broken from his Bologna statue, when the bronze was +turned into a cannon. Perhaps he also saw La Giulia, the +cannon herself. It may be that amongst the engraved +gems in the Duke's collection was one representing "Leda +and the Swan," and that Michael Angelo talked with +the Duke as to the possibilities of this composition for +pictorial treatment. Soon after Michael Angelo returned +to Florence he received warning from a mysterious person +that there was treachery in the garrison, so he fled to +Venice. He had no idea of wasting his life uselessly when +he thought certain destruction was before the city, and so +he determined to leave Italy and accept the overtures that +had been made to him from the Court of France. The +courage that fears not to undertake the greatest and most +difficult works is of a different temper from that of a soldier, +a bravo, or a Benvenuto Cellini; all the noble and virtuous +qualities cannot belong to one hero. Unfortunately, the +judgment of Michael Angelo turned out to be right after +all. Nevertheless, hearing better news, and hoping against +hope, he courageously returned to Florence in her +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page203">[pg 203]</span><a name="Pg203" id="Pg203" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>extremity and went on with the fortifications. Some of the +works at San Miniato still remain. Vauban is said to have +found them of such interest that he surveyed and measured +them. During this sad time Michael Angelo laboured in +secret at the tombs of the Medici. The sad and despairing +thoughts of the artist are evident in the work he produced. +No one can enter that solemn sacristy without feeling the +spirit of deepest sadness brooding over all—Il Penseroso, +and the figures of Day and of Night, of Morning and of +Evening.</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"> </div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The city fell in August 1530. Marco Dandolo, of +Venice, when he heard of it, exclaimed aloud, "Baglioni has +put upon his head the cap of the biggest traitor upon +record." The prominent citizens who escaped, including +Michael Angelo, were outlawed and their property confiscated. +Many who remained in the city were imprisoned, +tortured, and beheaded. Michael Angelo hid himself, the +Senator Filippo Buonarroti says, in the bell-tower of San +Nicolo beyond Arno.<a id="noteref_140" name="noteref_140" href="#note_140"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">140</span></span></a> After the fury was over and +Clement's anger abated, Michael Angelo, hearing a message +of peace from the Pope, came forth from his hiding-place +and resumed work on the statues at San Lorenzo, +moved thereto more by fear of the Pope than by love of +the Medici. During November or December his pension +of fifty crowns a month was renewed, the Pope's agent in +Florence being Battista Figiovanni, Prior of San Lorenzo.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In 1528 a block of marble had been assigned to Michael +Angelo, from which he determined to extract a heroic +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page204">[pg 204]</span><a name="Pg204" id="Pg204" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>group of Hercules and Cacus. There is a small wax +model of this composition at South Kensington, attributed +to Michael Angelo, which may be for this design. The +Medici Government handed over the blocks to the craven +Baccio Bandinelli, who produced the horrible work, representing +the same subject, now in front of the Palazzo +Vecchio.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Leda for the Duke of Ferrara,<a id="noteref_141" name="noteref_141" href="#note_141"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">141</span></span></a> but presented by +Michael Angelo to his pupil Mini, was painted during +the siege. It was probably a design from some antique +gem in the Duke's cabinet. The original, and a copy by +Benedetto Bene, were taken to Paris by Antonio Mini, +where they passed into the possession of the King. +Michael Angelo's Leda hung at Fontainebleau until the +time of Louis XIII., when a Minister of State, M. Desnoyers, +ordered its destruction, as it seemed to him to be an +improper picture. Pierre Mariette informs us that the +picture was only hidden away, and that it reappeared and +was seen by him. It was restored and sent to England. +In the offices of the National Gallery is the best edition +of this picture. The head and arm are repainted, but +the thigh and hip are modelled in a magnificent style +that reminds us of the figure of Night in the Medician +tombs that he was at this very time carving. From the +power of this portion of the work we may assume that it +is the damaged and much restored original by Michael +Angelo.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image38" id="image38" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig85" id="fig85"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image38.png" width="480" height="554" alt="Image #38" title="THE HEAD OF THE DAWN" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">THE HEAD OF THE DAWN</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">THE NEW SACRISTY, SAN LORENZO, FLORENCE<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission of the Fratelli Alinari, Florence</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Vasari informs us that about this time "he began a +statue, of three cubits, in marble. It was an Apollo drawing +a shaft from his quiver. This he nearly finished. It +stands now in the chamber of the Prince of Florence, a +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page205">[pg 205]</span><a name="Pg205" id="Pg205" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>thing of rare beauty, though not quite completed." This +work was presented by the artist to Baccio Valori, the +powerful agent of the Medici. It is now in one of the +upper rooms of the Bargello, in Florence. The rough +hatchings of the chisel lines are everywhere visible; the +figure is palpitating with life under a veil of hewn marble; +the pose of the young god as he glides along and turns +his head over his shoulder is one of the most beautiful and +graceful Michael Angelo ever imagined. Until 1533 +Michael Angelo worked at the Medici monuments. The +ever recurring trouble about the Tomb of Julius distracted +him in 1532; a new contract was made out in the +May of that year, and Michael Angelo evidently expected +that he would have to go to Rome about it. This may be +gathered from the important letter written on February 24, +1531, by Sebastiano del Piombo, in Rome, to Michael +Angelo, in Florence; it marks the renewal of the intercourse +of the two old friends after the dangers and troubles +they had passed through during the siege of Florence and +the sack of Rome. Sebastiano's previous letter, as far as +we know, is dated April 25, 1525:—</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">1531, 24th February.</span></span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">My Dearest Comrade</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">,—By Master Domenico, called +Menichella, who has been to see me on your behalf. God +knows how dear it was to me. After so many sorrows, +hardships, and dangers, Almighty God has left us alive +and well in His mercy and pity. A fact truly miraculous +when I think over it; everlasting thanks to His Divine +Majesty, and if I could express to you with my pen +the anxiety and worry I have had on your account you +would marvel at it. The Signor Fernando di Gonzaga +will bear me witness, and God knows what sorrow I had +</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page206">[pg 206]</span><a name="Pg206" id="Pg206" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">when I heard you had been to Venice. If you had found +me at Venice things would have been very different; but +enough. Now gossip mine, now that we have been through +fire and water, and experienced things one could never +have imagined, let us thank God for all things, and for the +little life that is left to us; at least, let us spend it in what +quiet we may. Verily, we must put no faith in fortune, +she is so perverse and sad. I am come to this; for aught +I care the universe may be ruined. I should laugh at +everything. Menichella will tell you by word of mouth +of my life and how I am. I do not as yet seem to myself +to be the same Bastiano that I was before the sack. I +cannot collect my thoughts. I say no more. Christ keep +you well.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"The 24th day of February, 1531, in Rome.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"About your coming here, according to what Master +Menichella tells me, it does not seem to be necessary, unless +you come for a jaunt or to put your house in order; +which, in truth, is going to the bad in more ways than +one, as in the roofs and other things. I suppose you know +that the workshop, with the carved marbles in, has tumbled +to pieces; it is a great pity. You will be able to remedy +this and make some arrangements. As for me I should +dearly love to enjoy your company for a while; truly I am +dying to see you. I am all impatience; but do as you +think best.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"Your very faithful gossip,</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Sebastiano Lucianis</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Lord Michael Angelo de Bonarotis</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">,</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"Most rare Sculptor, in Florence."</span></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image39" id="image39" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig86" id="fig86"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image39.png" width="480" height="914" alt="Image #39" title="APOLLO" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">APOLLO</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, THE BARGELLO, FLORENCE<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission from the photograph by Sig. G. Brugi, Florence</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sebastiano continued his good services to his friend +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page207">[pg 207]</span><a name="Pg207" id="Pg207" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>with regard to the Tomb of Julius all through 1531. +The course of events may be followed in his letters. The +Pope was interested, and always consulted, in the affair, and +most favourably disposed to Michael Angelo. All this +anxiety preyed upon the master and injured his health. +Paolo Mini, the father of Antonio, Michael Angelo's +assistant, wrote to Baccio Valori on September 29<a id="noteref_142" name="noteref_142" href="#note_142"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">142</span></span></a>: +"Michael Angelo will not live long unless some measures +are taken for his benefit. He works very hard, eats little +and poorly, and sleeps less. In fact, he is afflicted with +two kinds of disorder: the one in his head, the other in +his heart. Neither is incurable, since he has a robust constitution; +but, for the good of his head, he ought to be +restrained by our Lord the Pope from working through +the winter in the sacristy, the air of which is bad for him;<a id="noteref_143" name="noteref_143" href="#note_143"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">143</span></span></a> +and for his heart, the best remedy would be if his Holiness +could accommodate matters with the Duke of Urbino." +On November 21 Clement addressed a brief to his sculptor, +whereby Buonarroti was ordered, under pain of excommunication, +to lay aside all work, except what was strictly +necessary for the Medician monuments, and to take better +care of his health. On the 26th Benvenuto Valpaio added +that his Holiness desired Michael Angelo to select some +workshop more convenient than the cold and cheerless +sacristy.</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"> </div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sebastiano's letters during 1533 often refer to an +edition of some madrigals written by Michael Angelo and +set to music by Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Giacomo Arcadelt, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page208">[pg 208]</span><a name="Pg208" id="Pg208" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>and Constanzo Festa.<a id="noteref_144" name="noteref_144" href="#note_144"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">144</span></span></a> Gottif<a id="noteref_145" name="noteref_145" href="#note_145"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">145</span></span></a> publishes an essay by Leto +Puliti on this music with the score of three of the madrigals. +Many of Michael Angelo's poetical compositions may be +referred to this period of comparative inaction as to painting +and sculpture. All through his life he wrote sonnets +and poems when his other work did not proceed quickly.</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"> </div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In 1535 Michael Angelo finally left Florence. His +father and his favourite brother were dead, and so he +left the shadow of the great Duomo, all Florentines love, +for ever. At Rome he dreamed a dream of another Dome, +that has given to that city the feature by which we know +it best, and to Romans a possession not less beloved than +Bruneleschi's gift to the Florentines.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image40" id="image40" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig87" id="fig87"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image40.png" width="480" height="585" alt="Image #40" title="THE HEAD OF THE NIGHT" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">THE HEAD OF THE NIGHT</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">THE NEW SACRISTY OF SAN LORENZO, FLORENCE<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission of the Fratelli Alinari, Florence</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When Michael Angelo left, the works at San Lorenzo +were all unfinished; the façade was not begun, the Sagrestia +Nuova, the ground plan of which is similar to Bruneleschi's +Sagrestia Vecchia, was left in the rough, and the +Library he designed to hold the priceless Medician manuscripts, +collected by Cosimo Pater Patriæ and Lorenzo the +Magnificent, now known as the "Biblioteca Laurenziana," +was only begun. As Michael Angelo's designs and working +drawings were of the roughest description, and he usually +left a great deal to be settled after he had seen the effect +of the earlier part of his works, we cannot blame him +only for certain faults, such as, for instance, the awkward +approach to the Library. If he had completed the work +he very likely would have made an entrance from the +piazza, as roomy and convenient, as the curious staircase in +the corner of the cloister is awkward and cramped. It was +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page209">[pg 209]</span><a name="Pg209" id="Pg209" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>completed by Giorgio Vasari, whose letters to Michael +Angelo about this difficult work, and Michael Angelo's +chaotic replies, belong to a much later period. The curious +manner of cutting up the wall by pilasters and framed +spaces cannot properly be judged without the bronze bas-reliefs +that they were intended to contain. Considered as +a method of hanging or displaying a collection of works of +art they are admirable, and might well serve for the interior +decoration of a great museum. The vestibule, with its +curious stairway, large consoles, and green and white +colour, leaves an impression of power and eccentricity in +architecture like the effect of the serious caricatures of +Leonardo da Vinci in drawing. The buildings at San +Lorenzo should be regarded as the prentice work of the +architect of the Dome of St. Peter's. The decorations of +the Sagrestia Nuova, too, were left unfinished; the statues +of Day, Night, Morning, and Evening were left where he +had worked upon them, on the floor of the chapel. From +Vasari's letter to him of 1562, instigated by the Duke +Cosimo, who desired to complete the work according to +Michael Angelo's designs, asking for help and advice,<a id="noteref_146" name="noteref_146" href="#note_146"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">146</span></span></a> +we gather that Michael Angelo intended to have placed +statues in all the niches above the sepulchres, and in the +frames above the doors works of painting, stucco for the +arches, and painting to adorn the flat walls and semicircular +spaces of the chapel. Michael Angelo, on account +of his great age, was unable or unwilling to assist in the +work. The present sarcophagi cannot have been intended +to hold the allegorical figures in the way they do, for the +under surfaces of the statues do not fit the top of the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page210">[pg 210]</span><a name="Pg210" id="Pg210" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>mouldings, and certainly the rough stones that project +over them, forming a base for the feet, must have been +intended to be supported by solid marble, and not to rest +uneasily on air. The sarcophagi are of a greyer marble +than the figures or than the panelling behind them. The +architectural ornament appears to be of three dates: First, +the niches and panels of the walls; second, the sarcophagi +and their supports; third, the doors of the chapel and +niches over them. In the first, the grotesque heads in the +mouldings are like the dull grotesques Michael Angelo +appears to have designed in the architecture of the Tomb +of Julius and on the armour of the captains in this chapel. +In the second, the four-horned skulls of rams on the sides +of the supports of the sarcophagi are very feeble and poor +in design. If we compare them with the powerful and true +drawing of the rams' heads used in the frame-work of the +vault of the Sistine Chapel, we shall see that it is impossible +for Michael Angelo to have designed them, or even +let them pass whilst he was superintending the works. The +shell and rope patterns are even worse and more feeble; +they are easily seen to be executed by different hands. The +simple bosses of the base under "Dawn and Evening" are +still unfinished: that would go to prove that Michael +Angelo had designed them and seen them cut as far as +they go—not necessarily that he had seen them in position—and +that the academicians, when they did their best to +complete the chapel, rightly decided to leave them as they +were. The base under Day and Night has no bosses; +they had not been begun as in the former case; we may +presume the academicians thought it best to have them +flat. These simple bases are the most effective portions +of the architectural scheme of the monument, in character +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page211">[pg 211]</span><a name="Pg211" id="Pg211" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>with the allegorical figures, reminding us of the plinths or +seats provided for the Athletes and the Prophets of the +Sistine. Perhaps they were the only portions, except the +figures and the panelling of the walls, seen by Michael +Angelo himself. The supports and lid of the sarcophagi, +and the sarcophagus of Giuliano, are of different marble to +the actual receptacle of the body of Lorenzo, that is under +Dawn and Evening. The quiet mouldings of the latter are +much finer and more in character with the walls. The lids +are of a white sugary marble, the mouldings coarse and +semicircular in section, and the volutes and circular +endings of the lids are of a perfectly stupid design. These +lids cannot have been seen by Michael Angelo; and, therefore, +he cannot have seen the figures in their places upon +them. The sarcophagus under the Day and Night has been +copied from the one seen by Michael Angelo: its mouldings +are still beautiful, but heavier, more deeply cut, and of less +subtle line in the section. The difference is perceptible to +the eye and evident with the aid of a good foot-rule. +This sarcophagus is of a different marble, as has been said. +As to the third period, the garlands and little pretty vases +over the doors of the chapel, and the consoles and niches +above, are like nothing else in the world but those carved +frames that in Florence to this day are called "Vasari +frames."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The marble candlesticks upon the altar of the chapel +are of different marble from the altar on which they stand, +and appear to be of an earlier date. The grotesques +on the bases are of good design, and the drill holes of the +marble cutting are simply left to tell their story of how +the work was done, instead of being cut away and hidden +as in later work. May they not have been designed in +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page212">[pg 212]</span><a name="Pg212" id="Pg212" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Michael Angelo's time, possibly for the brackets on the +cornice of the panelling behind the tombs? On the altar +is the inscription:</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">PAULUS V. PONT. MAX.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">MDCX.</span></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The figures of Giuliano and Lorenzo are perfectly +finished; they cannot be regarded as portraits, but as symbols. +The armour of the warrior Giuliano is magnificently +designed, and must have been founded upon some antique +example. The grotesque upon the breastplate is not unlike +a grotesque in a similar place upon an antique marble bust +in the Naples Museum. The helmeted Lorenzo, Il Penseroso, +broods over what might have been, had he acted his +part in Florence. Under his elbow rests a box of peculiar +design, possibly the representation of a political instrument +used in the offices of his family's unwise government. +The unfinished head of Day is an example of how the +master appears to complete his work from the first stroke +of his chisel. The vigorous giant, just rising to his work, +looks over his shoulder at the bright sun. The rough +chiselling of the face suggests already the dazzle of the +light in his eyes; how he tears his right hand as yet half +stone from out his stony breast! With his left hand +behind his back he appears to count the quattrini of his +wage; this action of the thumb placed on the second +finger is Michael Angelo's favourite one for the hand; it +may be seen many times in this chapel alone. The shortness +of the feet in the figure of Day appears to be due to +a miscalculation as to the size of the block; but, perhaps, +had the head and torso been thinned down in the finishing +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page213">[pg 213]</span><a name="Pg213" id="Pg213" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>they would have been correct in proportion. At the same +time, the feet are finished most carefully and beautifully, +and are so true that photographs of them look almost +like photographs from the finest of living models.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image41" id="image41" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig88" id="fig88"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image41.png" width="480" height="616" alt="Image #41" title="NIGHT" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">NIGHT</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">THE NEW SACRISTY OF SAN LORENZO, FLORENCE<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission of the Fratelli Alinari, Florence</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">How much has been written about the Night and her +meanings! We have good proof that her maker intended +her to have some of these many meanings in the reply of +Michael Angelo to Giovan Battista Strozzi's complimentary +verses:—</p> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">La Notte, che tu vedi in si dolci atti</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Dormire, fu da un Angelo scolpita</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">In questo sasso, e perchè dorme ha vita;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Destala, se no'l credi, e parleratti.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">The Night, that thou seest, so sweetly sleeping,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Was by an angel carved in the rude stone,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Sleeping, she lives, if thou believ'st it not,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Wake her, and surely she will answer thee.</div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The reply of Michael Angelo is in a much higher vein, +and teaches us to look to a far different aim in his work +than the mere form represented:—</p> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Grato m'è 'l sonno e più l'esser di sasso;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Mentre che 'l danno e la vergogna dura</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Non veder, non sentir m'è gran ventura;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Però non mi destar; deh! parla basso!</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Dear is my sleep, more dear to be but stone;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Whilst deep despair and dark dishonour reign</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Not to hear, not to feel is greatest gain;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Then wake me not; speak in an undertone.</div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">No one ever before gave such tragic beauty to the worn +and tired figure of a woman who has lived through her +many days of toil and suffered many labours. It is +believed by a medical authority that the master meant +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page214">[pg 214]</span><a name="Pg214" id="Pg214" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>the statue to represent rest after a labour, but it is rather +the nightmare-troubled sleep of a tired woman, whose +beautiful firm hips and worn breasts prove her to have +bravely met and passed through many cares, and suckled +many children. A horrid mask, symbolising these memories, +in bad dreams, grimaces beside her left hand. The eyes +of the mask are cut double so that the thing alters its +glance as you move about the chapel, fascinates and is +intolerable. The noble and splendid thighs of the woman +again realise a favourite problem of Michael Angelo's. He +represented these powerful limbs in the Flood and other +parts of the Sistine vault, and in the Leda. Beneath is +seen an owl; never before in sculpture has a bird been +represented with such power and dignity, save only by the +Greeks in the eaglets head on the coin of Eiis. There are +wreaths of poppy heads, symbols of sleep, and a moon +and stars to crown the head that is like the head of a +greater than Diana.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Evening, a brawny, hard-worked man, looks across the +chapel with pity towards the Night. He appears to be in +the act of straightening and stretching out his limbs, +lately bent by the toils of the day, in longed-for rest.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image42" id="image42" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig89" id="fig89"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image42.png" width="480" height="830" alt="Image #42" title="THE MADONNA AND CHILD" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">THE MADONNA AND CHILD</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">THE NEW SACRISTY, SAN LORENZO, FLORENCE<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission of the Fratelli Alinari, Florence</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The virgin Dawn lifts her weary head, as it were, in +despair, that another day of shame and reproach is beginning; +her long, lithe limbs and narrow hips contrast with +the ample girth and muscular power of the Night. The +modelling of the torso of this figure is, perhaps, the finest +piece of workmanship in the chapel, and should be studied +from every point of view, even from the back of the monument. +The muscular forms and the disposition of the +lines are so beautiful and true that it is a veritable marvel +and wonder of the world. The right proportion of +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page215">[pg 215]</span><a name="Pg215" id="Pg215" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>development necessary for a figure of that colossal size to +move and live has never been so well calculated. The +head is so beautiful that it cannot be spoken about; but +must be seen in the position Michael Angelo designed it +for, and not tilted upright on an ordinary pedestal as it is +always seen in the art schools. All the four figures struggle +with the trials, difficulties, and despair of their lives, as +who should say, to such a pass has Medici rule reduced +existence in Florence.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">One other statue in the Chapel is entirely by the hand +of the master, a Madonna suckling the child Jesus, a +strong boy straddling across her knee and turning right +round to reach the breast. Although unfinished, it is one +of Michael Angelo's noblest works; it is a notable example +of compactness of design, and of how he left the shape of +the block of marble evident in his finished work.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc90" id="toc90"></a><a name="pdf91" id="pdf91"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page216">[pg 216]</span><a name="Pg216" id="Pg216" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">CHAPTER IX</span></h2> + +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.40em; margin-top: 2.40em"><span style="font-size: 120%">THE LAST ACT OF THE TRAGEDY OF THE TOMB, +AND THE DAY OF JUDGMENT</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As soon as Michael Angelo arrived in Rome, in 1535, +he set to work to complete his contract for the Tomb +of Julius, and marbles that had waited in silence for his +liberating hand began to resound with the clink of the iron. +The two Slaves in the Louvre appear to have been worked +upon once again at this date, if we may judge by their +likeness to the work in the Dawn and the Day. After +the death of Clement the new Pope, Paul III., Farnese, +sent for him and requested him to enter his service, as +Condivi tells us.<a id="noteref_147" name="noteref_147" href="#note_147"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">147</span></span></a> Paul III., in a brief dated September 1, +1535,<a id="noteref_148" name="noteref_148" href="#note_148"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">148</span></span></a> appointed Michael Angelo chief architect, sculptor, +and painter at the Vatican; he became a member of the +Pope's household, with a pension of 1200 golden crowns, +raised on the revenue from a ferry across the river Po, at +Piacenza. This was so unremunerative, however, that it +was exchanged for a post on the Chancery at Rimini. And +now the doors of the Sistine Chapel once more close upon +the master, not to be opened again until the Christmas of +1541.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image43" id="image43" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig92" id="fig92"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image43.png" width="480" height="530" alt="Image #43" title="THE DAY OF JUDGMENT" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">THE DAY OF JUDGMENT</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">From a print in the British Museum</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Michael Angelo had to destroy three frescoes by +Perugino and two lunettes of his own upon the altar +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page217">[pg 217]</span><a name="Pg217" id="Pg217" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>wall of the Sistine Chapel for his new scheme. He is said +to have had the wall rebuilt of well-baked bricks, so possibly +the old frescoes had suffered from damp and dirt. Vasari +says Fra Sebastiano del Piombo prepared the wall for +Michael Angelo, and secretly had it grounded for oil painting, +no doubt hoping himself to be employed in the work, +as oil was his special medium. Michael Angelo was very +wroth with his old friend for this, and declared that oil +painting was an art only fit for women and crazy fellows. +We hear of no further intercourse between Michael Angelo +and the jovial frate. Vasari attributes their coolness to +this incident.</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"> </div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Hieronimo Staccoli wrote a letter in July 1537,<a id="noteref_149" name="noteref_149" href="#note_149"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">149</span></span></a> +to the Duke of Camerino, son and heir to the Duke of +Urbino, about a salt-cellar designed for him by Michael +Angelo. This prince was afterwards a good friend to the +master, and his letter of September 7, 1539, informs us of +the position of affairs with regard to the Tomb of Julius +during the progress of the large painting in the Sistine:—</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Dearest Messer Michael Angelo</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">,—It always has +been, and now is, more than ever our infinite desire, as +you will naturally imagine, to see the Tomb to the sainted +memory of Pope Julius, my uncle, brought to a good conclusion +by you, and we know well that it belongs to our +duty to have good care of it, and see it ultimately finished, +being held to it as you so well know by that sainted +spirit: nevertheless, having heard by letters from our +ambassador at Rome the great desire of our Lord, we +must comfort ourselves with all patience whilst this said +</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page218">[pg 218]</span><a name="Pg218" id="Pg218" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">work is passed over by you. As long as His Holiness +holds you busy in finishing the picture in the said chapel +of Sisto; not being able or willing, but by our duty and +our natural inclination in this as in all things to otherwise +than comply with his wishes, we are contented to +agree with a good grace, on reflection and by the reverence +we bear to His Holiness. You may, therefore, fairly go +on with the painting until the work is finished; but with +a firm hope and belief that when it is done you will give +yourself up entirely to finishing the said Tomb, redoubling +your diligence and care to make up for the loss of time, +as His Holiness has also promised you shall, kindly offering +himself to urge you to do it; and to this end we +have written you this letter. So long a time has passed +since this said Tomb was begun that we cannot persuade +ourselves but that you are equally desirous with us to +see it finished; and esteeming you an honourable man, +as we certainly believe you are—you cannot be otherwise +with your singular virtue—we judge it superfluous to give +you any admonition except that you keep yourself in good +health, in order that you may honour those sainted bones +that living honoured you and the other gifted men of +that age, by all that we have so often heard. We beg you +will make use of us if there is any other matter in which +we can do you pleasure, for we shall do it with that +good will which your most rare gifts deserve. And keep +well."</span></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image44" id="image44" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig93" id="fig93"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image44.png" width="480" height="526" alt="Image #44" title="THE JUDGE. from "THE DAY OF JUDGMENT"" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">THE JUDGE. <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">from</span></span> "THE DAY OF JUDGMENT"</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">SISTINE CHAPEL, ROME<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission of the Fratelli, Alinari, Florence</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Shortly before the fresco was finished, Vasari informs +us that Michael Angelo had a bad fall from the scaffolding, +and injured his leg. He returned home, shut himself up +in his house, and would not allow any doctor to come near +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page219">[pg 219]</span><a name="Pg219" id="Pg219" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>him or even enter the house. A certain Florentine +physician and lover of the arts, Baccio Rontini, contrived +to creep in by a back door, and roamed about until he +found the master. He then insisted upon remaining with +him, looking after him until he had effected a complete +cure.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Last Judgment was shown to the public upon +Christmas Day, 1541. In this picture of the Day of Wrath, +Michael Angelo has concentrated all his energies to represent +the terror of the wrath of God. It is Jehovah with +His thunders that rises before the frightened mass of human +souls. The Holy Mother crouches beside Him, turning +her face away so as not to see the wrath to come. Even +the saints look with dread towards the great Judge, fearing +lest they too should be condemned. Martyrs brandish the +emblems of their martyrdom before His eyes to plead for +them, and, as some have said, claim vengeance for their +pains. Michael Angelo would have us realise that no +human soul is innocent beside the Holiness of Heaven. +The gentle happiness of the redeemed, as represented by +the blessed Frate Angelico is absent from the scene—it +could not appear without destroying the unities of the +tragedy. Peace will follow as the blessed walk in the +Elysian fields after they have passed, with a fearful joy, +from the judgment seat. Michael Angelo has followed +the traditional composition of the subject in all its lines +and details, adapting it with the least change possible to +the space at his command, and to the superior knowledge +of the drawing of the human form that he possessed. It +is most interesting to compare this rendering with the +same subject in the Campo Santo at Pisa. Every part of +the composition is repeated, the action of the Judge, the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page220">[pg 220]</span><a name="Pg220" id="Pg220" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Madonna beside Him on His right, Apostles on either side, +the resurrection of the dead, the descent into hell, the +angels blowing the trumpets in the centre of the lower +part, the angels bearing the cross and other implements of +the Passion in the upper corners. This crowded mass of +figures is divided into nine several parts, all the figures and +groups having room enough to move, and to spare. The +more this work is studied in detail the more beautiful the +forms appear, and the more daring and skilful the foreshortenings +are found to be. Every figure is beautiful, +and every one of them noble. The picture is full of symbolism +in the details, and may be studied every day, and +new thoughts and new meanings found in it. Souls that +help each other in their upward struggle. Beads of prayers +with which one good righteous man draws souls to heaven. +The wife who lifts up her despairing husband; his expression +of awe and doubt as he rises upward. Souls long +separated by death rush together in close embrace; father +and son, husband and wife. Dante is there thirsting for +deepest mysteries, his face positively thrust between St. +Peter and St. Paul. Souls driven down to hell, beautiful +and noble as are those destined for heaven; even their +despair is dignified as if they assented to their doom as just. +Old Charon, in his boat, "with eyes of brass, who beats +the delaying souls with uplifted oar," is taken directly +from Dante:—</p> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Caron demonio con occhi di bragia</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Loro accenando, tutte le raccoglie,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Batte col remo qualunque si adagia.</div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image45" id="image45" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig94" id="fig94"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image45.png" width="480" height="616" alt="Image #45" title="SPIRITS OF THE BLESSED, part of "THE DAY OF JUDGMENT"" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">SPIRITS OF THE BLESSED, <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">part of</span></span> "THE DAY OF JUDGMENT"</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">SISTINE CHAPEL, ROME<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission of the Fratelli Alinari, Florence</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Those portions of the fresco in the semicircular spaces +at the top, angels bearing implements of the Passion, +appear to have been painted the last. They approximate +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page221">[pg 221]</span><a name="Pg221" id="Pg221" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>in style to the works afterwards done in the Pauline +Chapel, and are not so absolutely true in drawing as the +rest of the work. Here, for the first time, is a sense of +fatigue in the workmanship. They appear to have been +treated as two separate compositions filling their lunettes. +Michael Angelo has used the favourite device of Raphael +to give movement, direction, and force of line, two figures +pointing almost side by side in almost exactly parallel +actions. Nothing gives so much sense of rush, as may be +seen in many of the compositions in the Loggia. One +instance here is the angel bearing the Crown of Thorns and +the figure near him. Another is just below, two figures +near the right arm of the Judge. One of the finest and +most superb groups ever designed by Michael Angelo is +the group of angels blowing the trumpets of doom in the +forefront of the fresco. Their energy and power, compared +with the placid angels of Pisa and Orvieto, exhibit +the different aims of the artist most effectively. It must +be noticed how carefully Michael Angelo has arranged his +composition, so that the baldacchino used behind the High +Altar upon great occasions shall not injure his composition. +The group of angel trumpeters, the Charon and the devils +in a cave, are all hidden and cut off exactly by the curtains, +and the composition generally is positively improved by +their absence. Michael Angelo, no doubt, thought the +fresco would be most seen on such occasions, and designed +his work accordingly. The space hidden, however, he did +not neglect, but placed in it some of his finest work.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The prophet above this end of the chapel is Jonah, +whose history is a symbol of the resurrection of the dead. +His presence there makes us suppose that Michael Angelo +always contemplated the possibility of his having to paint +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page222">[pg 222]</span><a name="Pg222" id="Pg222" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>the Last Judgment upon this wall, although he himself +painted the lunettes now covered by the larger composition. +The colour of this fresco is very much darkened by +dust and by smoke from the altar candles; and, as it is +more within reach than the vault, it has been retouched. +It should be a source of comfort to those who get tired +with looking upward at pictures in high places, if they will +but remember that their beloved paintings have often been +protected from the restorer by their high position. There +is an interesting early copy of this fresco in the Corsini +Gallery in Florence, which, though rather crude, gives us +a good idea of the light tone of the painting in its early +state.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This work was received by artists with enthusiasm, +reflected in the pages of Vasari. They came from all +parts to study it; in fact, most of the drawings attributed +to Michael Angelo in collections are their studies from it, +and not his studies for it, as they are called. As a general +rule, whenever there are two or more figures drawn in a +group, all equally finished and accurately in the same +position as the figures in the fresco, the drawing may be +assumed to be a copy.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Two sections of the public, even then, were unable to +receive Michael Angelo's message of the beauty and purity +of the human figure. Not only scandalous persons, like +Aretino, objected to them, but pious people, who could +not and cannot yet be brought to believe in the splendour +and holiness of the Creator's work. Vasari tells us that +when Michael Angelo had almost finished the work Pope +Paul came to see it, and Messer Biagio da Cesena, Master +of the Ceremonies, a very particular person, was with him +in the chapel, and was asked what he thought of it. +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page223">[pg 223]</span><a name="Pg223" id="Pg223" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Messer Biagio da Cesena replied that he considered it +highly improper to paint so many shameless, naked figures +in such an honourable building, and that it was not a fit +work for the Pope's chapel, but more suitable to a bagno +or an inn. Michael Angelo nettled by this resolved to +revenge himself at once. As soon as they left the chapel +he set to work and drew Messer Biagio's portrait, from +memory, in hell as Minos, with a great serpent twisted +round his legs, surrounded by a crowd of devils. Messer +Biagio complained to the Pope, who asked him where he +was placed? "In hell," was the reply. "Then I can do +nothing to help you," said the Pope; "had the painter +sent you to purgatory I would have used my best efforts +to get you released, but I exercise no influence in hell, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">ubi +nulla est redemptio</span></span>." Some years afterwards Paul IV. +objected to the naked figures, and employed Daniele da +Volterra to patch draperies on to some of them, with +Michael Angelo's consent, whereby Daniele obtained the +nickname of Il Braghettone, or the breeches-maker. +Daniele did his work with a good deal of discretion, +hiding as little of the original fresco as possible: the +additions are unfortunately offensive in colour. The early +engravings show the picture in its original state, and show +that the additions are not so many or so important as +might be supposed, as most of the larger masses of draperies +are seen to be Michael Angelo's own work. When the +Pope obtained Michael Angelo's consent to this alteration, +the artist replied to his messenger: "Tell his Holiness this +is a small matter, and can easily be set right. Let him +look to setting the world in order: to reform a picture +costs no great trouble." Pius V. also employed Girolamo +da Fano to make some further alterations. These retouches +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page224">[pg 224]</span><a name="Pg224" id="Pg224" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">a secco</span></span> have destroyed to a great extent the atmospheric +quality and the relation of the planes in Michael Angelo's +suave true-fresco method, which, as may be seen in the +vault, gives the grey half-tints of the flesh-tones in a way +only equalled by Andrea del Sarto in fresco and Rembrandt +in oil painting.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As soon as Michael Angelo had finished the Last +Judgment, Paul III. set him to work again to fresco the +walls of the chapel of the Holy Sacrament, just completed +by Antonio da San Gallo, and now known as the Cappella +Paolina. Michael Angelo had hoped to complete the +Tomb of Julius at once, with his own hand, but the +Pope's determination necessitated further negotiations +with the Duke of Urbino. The Duke wrote to Michael +Angelo upon March 6, 1542, saying that he would be +quite satisfied if the three statues by his hand, including +the Moses, were assigned to the Tomb, the execution of +the rest being left to competent workmen under him.<a id="noteref_150" name="noteref_150" href="#note_150"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">150</span></span></a></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">There is also a petition from Michael Angelo to +Paul III.<a id="noteref_151" name="noteref_151" href="#note_151"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">151</span></span></a> stating that his Holiness the Pope's commission +for Michael Angelo to work and paint in his new chapel +prevents him finishing the Tomb as agreed with the illustrious +signor Duke of Urbino. "Already Raffaello da +Monte Lupo, the Florentine, considered one of the best +masters of the time, was well forward with the standing +group of the Madonna with the Child in her arms, and a +Prophet and a Sibyl seated, for four hundred scudi. The +rest of the decoration, excepting the part in front, was in +the hands of Master Giovanni de' Marchesi and Francesco da +Urbino, chisellers and carvers in stone, for seven hundred +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page225">[pg 225]</span><a name="Pg225" id="Pg225" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>scudi. But there still remained to be supplied the three +figures to be carved by Michael Angelo's own hand, that is +to say, a Moses and two captives. But as the two said +captives were designed for the work when it was to have +been on a much larger scale, they would not fit in the +reduced design, nor could they in any way be made to look +well there. Accordingly the said Messer Michael Angelo, +not to lose his honour, had blocked out two new statues to +go on either side of the Moses, representing the Active and +Contemplative Life, which are well advanced, so that they +may be easily finished by another master. Michael Angelo +desires and supplicates his Holiness our Lord the Pope +Paul the Third, in order that he may work in his chapel, +which needs all his energies and his entire care, and he being +aged, and desiring to serve the Pope with all his power, to +free him from his obligation to the signor Duke of Urbino +with regard to the said Tomb, cancelling and annulling +every obligation. Especially, to allow him to hand over +the two statues that remain to be done to the said +Raffaello da Montelupo, or to some one pleasing to his +Excellency, for a good price, which it is thought would be +200 scudi. The Moses will be finished entirely by Michael +Angelo, and arrangements will be made by Michael Angelo +to pay the money due for these workers ... and so he will +be free in all things and able to serve and satisfy his Holiness." +Finally, he deposits a sum of 1200 crowns, and +guarantees that the work shall be efficiently executed in all +its details. The final contract in agreement with this +petition was signed upon August 20, 1542.<a id="noteref_152" name="noteref_152" href="#note_152"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">152</span></span></a></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The mighty design of Michael Angelo's early years of +enthusiasm dwindled down to the Moses, but what a height +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page226">[pg 226]</span><a name="Pg226" id="Pg226" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>above other men's biggest designs is this single figure! The +Cardinal was right who said the statue of Moses alone +was a sufficient memorial of Julius. In a letter to Salvestro +da Montauto, of February 3, 1545<a id="noteref_153" name="noteref_153" href="#note_153"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">153</span></span></a>, Michael Angelo says +that the Duke of Urbino ratified the deed, and the five +statues were given to Raffaello da Montelupo to be carved. +"Of these five statues my Lord the Pope having at my +earnest prayer and for my satisfaction conceded to me a +little time, I finished two of them with my own hand, that +is to say, the Contemplative Life and the Active Life for the +same sum that the said Raffaello was to have had." From +the works themselves we may be sure that there is a good +deal of Raffaello da Montelupo about these figures all the +same. Notwithstanding all this evidence of the desire of +Michael Angelo to carry out his contract, we have a letter<a id="noteref_154" name="noteref_154" href="#note_154"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">154</span></span></a> +from Annibale Caro to Antonio Gallo as late as 1553 +entreating him to plead with the Duke of Urbino for +Michael Angelo. "I assure you that the extreme distress +caused him by being in disgrace with his Excellency is +sufficient to bring his grey hair with sorrow to the grave +before his time."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the finished work there are statues not yet accounted +for, that is to say, the recumbent portrait of the Pope +which was executed by Maso del Bosco, the coat of arms +of the Della Rovere by Battista Benti of Pietra Santa, and +the terminal figures by Giacomo del Duca. The greatest +drawback to the effect of the whole is the change in the +architectural treatment and decorations. The lower part +belongs to the period when the work was begun in 1505, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page227">[pg 227]</span><a name="Pg227" id="Pg227" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>and the upper, with no transition but a joint in the stone, +to the heavier and coarser style of the period when it was +finished, 1545. The jointing and the masonry generally +are not of a satisfactory character,<a id="noteref_155" name="noteref_155" href="#note_155"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">155</span></span></a> and Michael Angelo's +assistants cannot be congratulated upon the way they did +their share of the work. With the exception of the +figures of Active and Contemplative Life, the work of the +assistants would be better away.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The two bound captives which were too big for the +altered monument are now the glory of the Italian sculpture +galleries of the Louvre. They were presented by +Michael Angelo to Roberto degli Strozzi, because, when +the sculptor was ill in 1544, Luigi del Riccio, his friend, +nursed him and looked after him in the Strozzi Palace. +They were taken to France and offered to the King of +France, who gave them to the Connétable de Montmorenci; +they were placed by him in Ecouen. They were bought +for the French nation by M. Lenoir when the Republic +put them up for sale in 1793.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Four unfinished colossal figures, which still appear to +be wrenching themselves from their prison of stone, now +lurk in the corners of a repulsive grotto in the Boboli +Gardens. They are supposed to have been also for the +Tomb of Julius. Heath Wilson suggests that they may +have been intended for the façade of San Lorenzo. The +difficulty as to scale that caused a doubt as to their being +intended for the Tomb does not really disprove it; for +Michael Angelo was never very particular as to the comparative +size of the figures in his monuments, and the +many alterations of his schemes for the Tomb make it +possible for them to have been worked in somehow. It is +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page228">[pg 228]</span><a name="Pg228" id="Pg228" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>very probable that when he was at Florence, and after +some of the more threatening letters of the executors, he +set savagely to work upon some blocks ready to his hand, +with the idea of having them conveyed to Rome afterwards. +They belong to about the time of the siege of +Florence, and are more suggestive of his method of work, +and of his thoughts in the presence of the stone, than any +other of his statues. If they were removed from their ugly +surroundings and placed, say, in the Tribuna of David in +the Belle Arti at Florence instead of the plaster casts that +represent the master in his own city, they, with the +other fragments, such as the Saint Matthew, the Apollo, +the Victory, and the other works in the Bargello, would +make a gallery of his art even worthy of Michael Angelo. +Failing such a possibility, they might, at least, be placed +under the Loggia dei Lanzi, away from the repulsive +grotesque of stucco and stalactite that grins at them in the +grotto. If something must be left as a companion to the +ugly thing, plaster casts would be quite good enough.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Victory, of the Bargello, was said by Vasari to have +been designed for the Tomb, but it may just as well have been +intended for an angel overcoming a demon, part of the ruined +scheme for the façade of San Lorenzo. The lower figure is +still left in the rough, and is supposed to be like the artist. +The head of the upper figure is so dull that it cannot have +been carved by the sculptor who finished the torso so +exquisitely. It may have been left a mere block, like the +head of one of the captives of the Boboli. The man who +carved the head, and also worked on other portions of the +group, turned the neck round too much. If we imagine the +head less turned and looking down towards the crouching +figure, conquered by the young genius of beauty and +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page229">[pg 229]</span><a name="Pg229" id="Pg229" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>victory, we shall see the grace in the pose of the torso to +greater advantage. We imagine a somewhat similar story +for the figure in the Bargello, called the Adonis. The boar +cannot be by Michael Angelo's hand, and, indeed, very +little of the figure suggests his grasp of plastic possibilities; +the figure cannot have been much more than blocked out +by him, and was finished after his death by some artist of +the type of Vincenzio Danti.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc95" id="toc95"></a><a name="pdf96" id="pdf96"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page230">[pg 230]</span><a name="Pg230" id="Pg230" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">CHAPTER X</span></h2> + +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.40em; margin-top: 2.40em"><span style="font-size: 120%">THE CHAPEL OF POPE PAUL, AND THE PIETÀ OF +SANTA MARIA DEL FIORE</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Michael Angelo wrote a number of sonnets and made +many drawings for his friends, especially for the Marchioness +of Pescara and Messer Tomaso dei Cavalieri, a +noble Roman gentleman. For him they were generally +subjects from Greek and Roman mythology, but for the +Marchioness the drawings always represented episodes from +the story of the Passion of our Lord. A Pietà, drawn +for this lady, was engraved by Giulio Bonasoni and Tudius +Bononiensis in 1546. There are several drawings in the +Print Room of the British Museum and the Windsor and +Oxford Collections of this character and period. One at +Oxford was probably the original sent to Vittoria, but +all are of the same sacred inspiration; in fact, the +religious element becomes very strong indeed in all his +later work, just as in the later work of Titian. These +artists had the near prospect of death in view, and thus +they turned their thoughts entirely to work from which +they hoped for reward in the world to come. The fear +of hell was not without its influence upon both of them.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Some of the drawings made by Michael Angelo for +his friend, Tomaso Cavalieri, are mentioned in one of +Tomaso's letters, dated 1533.<a id="noteref_156" name="noteref_156" href="#note_156"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">156</span></span></a></p> + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page231">[pg 231]</span><a name="Pg231" id="Pg231" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image46" id="image46" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig97" id="fig97"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image46.png" width="480" height="369" alt="Image #46" title="THE CRUCIFIXION OF SAINT PETER" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">THE CRUCIFIXION OF SAINT PETER</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">THE CHAPEL OF POPE PAUL, THE VATICAN, ROME<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission of the Fratelli Alinari, Florence</span></span>)</p></div> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Unique my Lord</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">,—Some days ago I received a +letter from you, which was very welcome, both because +I learned by it that you are well, and also because I can +now be sure that you will soon return. I was very sorry +not to answer at once. However, when you know the +cause, you will hold me excused. On the day your letter +reached me I was very sick, and in such a high fever that +I was at the point of death; and verily I should have +died if it had not revived me. Since then, thank God, +I have been well. Messer Bartolomei has now brought me +a sonnet by you, which has made it my duty to write. +Some three days since I received my drawing of Phæton, +which is exceedingly well done. The Pope, the Cardinal +de' Medici, and every one, have seen it. I do not know +what made them want to do so. The Cardinal expressed +a wish to inspect all your drawings, and they pleased him +so much that he said he should like to have a Tityos and +Ganymede done in crystal. I could not prevent him from +using the Tityos, and it is now being executed by Master +Giovanni. I struggled hard to save the Ganymede. The +other day I went, as you requested, to Fra Sebastiano. He +sends a thousand messages, but all to pray you to come +back.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"Your affectionate,</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Thomas Cavalieri</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">."</span></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Messer Tomaso feared the drawings would be damaged +in the workshop of the gem engraver. There are several +of these drawings in existence in good condition, with no +marks of the thumbs of workmen about them.</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"> </div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">From the letters referring to the last contract about +the Tomb of Julius, we learn that the frescoes in the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page232">[pg 232]</span><a name="Pg232" id="Pg232" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Cappella Paolina were not begun in October 1542. +Michael Angelo worked at them with slight interruptions +for seven years; they represent the Conversion of Saint +Paul and the Martyrdom of Saint Peter. They are very +highly finished in execution and studied in grace of composition, +but frigid, and too evidently the work of an old +man. The skill of the drawing and foreshortening is +masterly as ever, but he does not appear to have referred +to nature for the forms; and even Michael Angelo without +nature became stale. Vasari says, after describing the +frescoes without his customary enthusiasm, "They were his +last productions in painting. He was seventy-five years old +when he carried them to completion; and, as he informed +me, he did so with great effort and fatigue—painting, after +a certain age, and especially fresco painting, not being in +truth fit work for old men."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the spring of 1546 Francis I. of France wrote to +Michael Angelo asking for some fine monument by his +hand, and copies of the Pietà della Febbre, now in St. +Peter's, and of the Christ holding the Cross, in Santa +Maria Sopra Minerva, for his chapel. A draft of Michael +Angelo's reply runs:—</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image47" id="image47" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig98" id="fig98"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image47.png" width="480" height="467" alt="Image #47" title="THE CONVERSION OF SAINT PAUL" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">THE CONVERSION OF SAINT PAUL</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">THE CHAPEL OF POPE PAUL<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission of the Fratelli Alinari, Florence</span></span>)</p></div> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">To the most Christian King of France.</span></span><a id="noteref_157" name="noteref_157" href="#note_157"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">157</span></span></a></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Sacred Majesty</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">,—I do not know which is the greater, +the grace or the wonder at it, that your Majesty should +have deigned to write to a man like me, and still more to +ask him for things of his, unworthy even of the name of +your Majesty; but, whatever they are, let your Majesty +understand that for a long time I have desired to serve +you in them; but, not having had the opportunity, +</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page233">[pg 233]</span><a name="Pg233" id="Pg233" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">because you have not been in Italy where my work is, I +have not been able to do it. Now I am old, and have +been occupied these many months with the work for Pope +Paul. But if a little life is still left me after all these +occupations, what I have desired is, as I have said, a little +time to work for your Majesty at my art—one work to be +in marble, one in bronze, and one in painting. And if +death hinders me from carrying out my wish, and if it be +possible to carve statues or to paint in the other life, I +shall not fail to do so there, where there is no more growing +old. And I pray God that He grant your Majesty a long +and happy life.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"From Rome, the day XXVI. of April, MDXLVI."</span></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the letters and poems of this period we note the +endeavour to attain to a style in literature full of rich +conceits and elaborate compliment, which may be compared +to the style, elaborate and ornamental, but somewhat +cold and unattractive, of the frescoes in the Cappella +Paolina. As he grew older he devoted himself more +entirely to architecture and literature. The arts of sculpture +and painting, as exercised by him, could not be +carried on by assistants; he now perforce had to employ +himself upon work in which the execution could be left to +younger hands. He sought the help of scholars to overhaul +and set to rights his poems, sonnets, and thoughts in +words, as the masons and master-builders expressed his +thoughts in architecture—the Dome of St. Peter's, and the +cornice of the Farnese Palace. In the devotional drawings +we have mentioned, and an unfinished group in sculpture, +the Deposition from the Cross, now behind the High +Altar of Santa Maria del Fiore at Florence, we have the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page234">[pg 234]</span><a name="Pg234" id="Pg234" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>only further manifestation of Michael Angelo's genius in +his favourite arts. Many of these drawings appear to be +designs for a great picture of the Crucifixion. He went +on executing them long after the death of the Marchioness +of Pescara, who first seems to have incited him to this +work. It almost appears to have become a religious exercise +with him; they have the same meaning as these last lines +of a Sonnet.</p> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Nè pinger nè scolpir fia più che quieti</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">L' anima volta a quell' Amor divino</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Ch' aperse, a prender noi, in croce le braccia.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Painting nor sculpture now can lull to rest</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">My soul, that turns to His great love on high,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Whose arms to clasp us on the Cross were spread.<a id="noteref_158" name="noteref_158" href="#note_158"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">158</span></span></a></div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image48" id="image48" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig99" id="fig99"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image48.png" width="480" height="619" alt="Image #48" title="THE PIETÀ OF SANTA MARIA DEL FIORE" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">THE PIETÀ OF SANTA MARIA DEL FIORE</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">FLORENCE<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission of the Fratelli Alinari Florence</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The marble group of the Deposition is so religious in +character that it can be compared with no work of art +executed since Michael Angelo's own early work the Pietà, +in St. Peter's, the Madonna della Febbre. Both for its +earnestness and its noble religious sentiment it is an act of +worship to look at it, and the days and nights spent in +its execution must have been periods of the heartiest +religious devotion and sorrowing love. The old sculptor +intended this work to have been his monument. The +unfinished head of Nicodemus, who sustains the body of +his dear Lord, is his own portrait, and, unfinished as it is, +expresses the deepest devotion and sadness. Vasari saw +this work in progress, and gives us a glimpse into the +home-life of the aged worker, who was never content out +of his workshop, and spent his sleepless nights working at +this huge marble with a paper cap on his head, in which +he stuck a lighted candle to see by. The solitary figure of +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page235">[pg 235]</span><a name="Pg235" id="Pg235" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>the old man in the vast and dimly lighted studio, groping +round the inchoate marble; the stillness of the night, +broken only by the sharp click of the mallet and the +grating of the chisel, is a picture of many of the bravest +hours of his old age. Vasari, observing all this, and +wishing to do the revered artist a kindness, sent him +40 lbs. of candles made of goat's fat, knowing that they +gutter less than ordinary dips of tallow. His servant +carried them politely to the house two hours after night-fall, +and presented them to Michael Angelo. He refused, +and said he did not want them. The man answered: "Sir, +they have almost broken my back carrying them all this +long way from the bridge, and I will not carry them home +again. There is a heap of mud opposite your door, thick +and firm enough to hold them upright. Here then will I +set them all up, and light them." When Michael Angelo +heard this he gave way: "Lay them down; I do not mean +you to play pranks at my house door." Vasari tells +another anecdote about the Deposition. Pope Julius III. +sent him late one evening to Michael Angelo's house for +a certain drawing. The aged master came down with +a lantern, and, hearing what was wanted, told Urbino +to look for the design. Meanwhile, Vasari turned his +attention to one of the legs of the Christ, which Michael +Angelo had been altering. In order to prevent his seeing +it Michael Angelo let the light fall, and they remained in +darkness. He then called for another light, and stepped forth +from the screen of planks behind which he worked, saying: +"I am so old that oftentimes Death plucks me by the cape +to go with him, and one day this body of mine will fall like +the lantern, and the light of life will be put out."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"If life gives us pleasure we ought not to expect displeasure +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page236">[pg 236]</span><a name="Pg236" id="Pg236" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>from death, seeing it is made by the hand of the +same master," was a favourite reflection of Michael Angelo's +upon mortality. This Deposition was never completed, +flaws appeared in the marble, and perhaps whilst working +in the imperfect light Michael Angelo's impatient chisel +cut too deep. He began to break up the work, but luckily +his servant Antonio, successor to Urbino, begged the fragments +from his master. Francesco Bandini, a Florentine +exile settled in Rome, wished for a work by the master, +and, with Michael Angelo's consent, bought it from Antonio +for two hundred crowns. It was patched up, but apparently +not worked upon, and remained in the garden of +Bandini's heir at Monte Cavallo. It was afterwards taken +to Florence and was finally placed in the Duomo in 1722 +by the Grand Duke Cosimo III., where it may now be seen +behind the high altar, well-placed, so that the great cross +of the altar looks like the tree from which the body has +just been lowered. So well does the line of the cross behind +cut the group that we cannot help imagining that the +artist intended some such erection to have been placed +behind his figures. Those who would see this group aright +must visit the Duomo before seven o'clock on a summer +morning, when the light of the sun falls, though the white +robe of a bishop in one of the high eastern windows, upon +the neighbouring pillars and the floor, and lights up that +end of the church; at other times the darkness of the +dome covers the group as the darkness covered the earth +during the tragic hours at Golgotha.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The right arm of the Christ has become over polished and +much worn because it is used as a balustrade by the acolytes, +who carelessly run up and down the steps between the group +and the back of the high altar to light the candles during +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page237">[pg 237]</span><a name="Pg237" id="Pg237" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>service. On the other side a rough metal handle has positively +been let into the left side of the Joseph of Arimathea, +so that a clumsy boy may climb the more easily; wooden +steps also fit so closely to the marble that they injure +the lines of the group. All the characteristics of Michael +Angelo's impassioned period may be studied in this group; +his favourite mannerisms are there also. Examine the hand +of Joseph, with the middle finger touching the thumb, +and compare it with the allegorical statues of the Medici +Chapel. Vasari tells us that Michael Angelo began +another Pietà on a smaller scale; this may be the beautiful +group that has been spoiled by an alteration, now in the +courtyard of the Palazzo Rondini, No. 418, the Corso, +Rome. There is a cast of it in the Belle Arti at +Florence. The hanging limbs of the Christ have a most +pathetic effect, and so has the whole expression of the +group. The effect is obtained by the length of the principal +lines.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">There is a medallion of the Madonna clasping her +dead son at the Albergo dei Poveri, at Genoa, attributed +to Michael Angelo; it may have been begun by him +during this long period of old age, but it cannot be called +his work. It has been entirely recarved by an imitator.</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"> </div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Michael Angelo made his famous report condemning +the design of Antonio da Sangallo for the rebuilding +of the Farnese palace upon the shores of the Tiber; +it is a mysterious document, in Michael Angelo's own +hand, and does not leave Sangallo a single merit. All +the theories are proved by the precepts of Vitruvius. The +adherents of Sangallo resented it very naturally, and the +"Setta Sangallesca" became his bitter enemies. The Pope +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page238">[pg 238]</span><a name="Pg238" id="Pg238" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>himself was dissatisfied with Sangallo, and the design for +the cornice was thrown open to competition. Perino del +Vaga, Sebastiano del Piombo, Giorgio Vasari, and Michael +Angelo all competed. Michael Angelo's design was +eventually carried out after he had placed a wooden +model of part of his cornice in position. Vasari, who +is the best authority upon this period of the life of +Michael Angelo, attributes to him also the exterior of the +palace from the second story upwards, and the whole of +the central courtyard above the first story, "making it the +finest thing of its sort in Europe." Michael Angelo had +also a serious disagreement with Sangallo before the +military committee fortifying the Borgo for the Pope.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When Antonio da Sangallo died at Terni on October 3, +1546, Michael Angelo succeeded to his post in Rome, +architect-in-general to the Pope, the principal work was, +of course, the great Church of St. Peter's. Bramante, +Raphael, and Peruzzi had all been architects-in-chief, and +many were the alterations in the plans. Notwithstanding +their differences during his early life, the design of +Bramante was the one that commended itself to Michael +Angelo; he abandoned Sangallo's design; the model for it +still exists and we cannot wonder at Michael Angelo's +decision. His criticisms are given in a letter supposed to +be to Bartolomeo Amanati.<a id="noteref_159" name="noteref_159" href="#note_159"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">159</span></span></a> "It cannot be denied that +Bramante was a brave architect, equal to any one from the +times of the ancients until now. He laid the first plan of +Saint Peter's, not confused, but clear and simple, full of +light and detached from surrounding buildings, so as not +to injure any part of the palace. It was considered a fine +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page239">[pg 239]</span><a name="Pg239" id="Pg239" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>thing, and, indeed, it is still manifest that it was so; and +all the architects who have departed from the plan of +Bramante, as Sangallo has done, have departed from the +truth. And so it is, and all who have not prejudiced eyes +can see it in his model. He, with his outer circle of chapels, +in the first place takes all the light from the plan of +Bramante; and not only this, but he has not provided +any other means of lighting, and there are so many lurking +places, both above and below, all dark, which would be +very convenient for innumerable knaveries, a secure hiding-place +for bandits, false coiners, and all sorts of ribaldry, +and when it was shut up at night twenty-five men would +be needed to clear the building of those in hiding there, +and it would be difficult enough to find them. There is +yet another inconvenience: the circle of buildings with +their adjuncts outside added to Bramante's plan would +make it necessary to pull down to the ground the Capella +Paolina, the offices of the Piombo and the Ruota, and +more besides; nay, even the Sistine Chapel would, I believe, +not escape." May it not have been that this malicious +arrangement of Sangailo's to destroy Michael Angelo's +masterpieces made the great artist so bitter against him.</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"> </div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Paul III. conferred the post of architect-in-chief +at St. Peter's upon Michael Angelo on January 1, 1547, +"commissary, prefect, surveyor of the works, and architect, +with full authority to change the model, form, +and structure of the church at pleasure, and to dismiss +and remove the workmen and foremen employed upon +the same." For all this work Michael Angelo refused +payment, declaring that he meant to labour, without +recompense, for the love of God and the reverence he felt +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page240">[pg 240]</span><a name="Pg240" id="Pg240" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>for the Prince of the Apostles. Speaking broadly, the +former architects had designed ground plans of St. Peter's +on two lines, the Greek and the Latin crosses. Bramante, +and Baldassare Peruzzi used the Greek cross; Raphael, +the Basilica form, the addition of a long nave made +the plan like a Latin cross; and Sangallo, by adding +a huge portico to Peruzzi's design, made his ground +plan a Latin cross. Michael Angelo followed the lines of +Bramante, the Greek cross, designed so that the cupola +should be the dominant note of the building and its +principal feature, whether from within or without, and +from whichever side the building was approached. +Michael Angelo's intention may be realised at the back +of the present building, and his work best judged as one +walks round the great mass of masonry to the old entrance +to the Sculpture Galleries of the Vatican. Those who +approach Rome in the best way at present open to the +newcomer, by the light railway line from Viterbo, get a +magnificent view of the cupola, apparently rising out of a +green hillside, just before they enter the Eternal City, and +then, on their way to the Trastevere station, they pass +behind the building and get their first impression of St. +Peter's from Michael Angelo's own work.<a id="noteref_160" name="noteref_160" href="#note_160"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">160</span></span></a></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Michael Angelo began his work by pulling down much +of Sangallo's construction, and by severely repressing all +sorts of jobbery in connection with the supply of materials.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Michael Angelo states in a letter to Cardinal Ridolfo +Pio of Carpi,<a id="noteref_161" name="noteref_161" href="#note_161"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">161</span></span></a> that the study of the nude human figure is +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page241">[pg 241]</span><a name="Pg241" id="Pg241" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>necessary to an architect. If he had also stated that it +was an essential to all art workers, many good judges +would have agreed with him.</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Most Reverend Monsignor</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">,—When a plan has +divers parts all those which are of one type in quality +and quantity have to be decorated in the same fashion +and in the same style, and similarly their counterparts. +But when the plan changes form altogether it is not +only allowable but necessary to change the said adornments +and likewise their counterparts. The intermediate +parts are always as free as you like, just as the nose, +which stands in the middle of the face, is not obliged +to correspond with either of the eyes; but one hand is +obliged to be like the other, and one eye must be as its +fellow, because they balance each other. Therefore it is +very certain that the members of architecture depend +upon the members of man. Who has not been, or is not +a good master of the figure, and especially of anatomy, +cannot understand it.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Michael Angelo Buonarroti.</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Vasari tells us "that the Pope approved of Michael +Angelo's model, which reduced the cathedral to smaller +dimensions, but also to a more essential greatness. He +discovered that four of the principal piers, erected by +Bramante and left standing by Antonio da Sangallo, which +had to bear the weight of the tribune, were feeble. These +he fortified in part, constructing a winding staircase at the +side with gently sloping steps, up which beasts of burden +ascend with building material, and one can ride on horseback +to the level above the arches. He carried the first +cornice, made of travertine, round the arches—a wonderful +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page242">[pg 242]</span><a name="Pg242" id="Pg242" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>piece of work, full of grace, and very different from +the others. Nor could anything be better done in its +kind. He began the two great apses of the transept; and +whereas Bramante, Raffaello, and Peruzzi had designed +eight tabernacles toward the Campo Santo, which arrangement +Sangallo adhered to, he reduced them to three, with +three chapels inside."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The sect of Sangallo, headed by Nanni di Baccio +Bigio, continued to annoy and conspire against the aged +architect, and though Michael Angelo brought their +machinations to the notice of the Superintendent of the +Fabric in 1547,<a id="noteref_162" name="noteref_162" href="#note_162"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">162</span></span></a> he could not get his chief enemy dismissed.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The master's good friend, Pope Paul III., died in 1549. +Michael Angelo wrote of him to his nephew<a id="noteref_163" name="noteref_163" href="#note_163"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">163</span></span></a>: "It is +true that I have suffered great sorrow and not less loss by +the Pope's death, because I have received benefits from +his Holiness, and hoped for even more. God's will be +done. We must have patience. His death was beautiful, +fully conscious to the last word. God have mercy on his +soul." His successor, Julius III., was also friendly to +Michael Angelo, who spoke of him in a letter to his old +friend, Giovan Francesco Fattucci, at Florence.<a id="noteref_164" name="noteref_164" href="#note_164"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">164</span></span></a></p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">To</span></span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Messer Giovan Francesco Fattucci</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, </span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">priest of Santa +Maria del Fiore, My most dear friend at Florence.</span></span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Messer Giovan Francesco</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">,—Dear friend, although +for many months we have not written to each other, yet I +</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page243">[pg 243]</span><a name="Pg243" id="Pg243" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">have not forgotten our long and faithful friendship, and +wish you well, as I have always done, and love you with all +my heart and more, for the endless kindnesses I have +received. As regards old age, which is upon us both alike, +I should much like to know how yours treats you, for mine +does not content me greatly, so I beg you will write something +to me. You know how that we have a new Pope, +and who he is. All Rome rejoices, thanks be to God, and +expects nothing but the greatest benefit to all, especially +to the poor, on account of his liberality...."</span></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Efforts were made to dislodge Michael Angelo from +his post of architect to St. Peter's. A memorial of grievances<a id="noteref_165" name="noteref_165" href="#note_165"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">165</span></span></a> +was drawn up by the Superintendent and set before +the Pope, stating that Michael Angelo was "carrying on +with a high hand, and letting them know nothing of the +work, so that they do not like his ways, especially in +what he keeps pulling down. The demolition has been, +and to-day is, so great that all who witness it are moved +to pity." Michael Angelo evidently satisfied the Pope, +for he was confirmed in his office with even greater powers +than before.</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"> </div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Another plot ripened in 1557, and is excellently +described by Vasari:—</p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"It was some little while before the beginning of +1551, when Vasari, on his return from Florence to Rome, +found the sect of Sangallo plotting against Michael +Angelo. They induced the Pope to hold a meeting in +Saint Peter's, where all the overseers and workmen connected +with the building should attend, and his Holiness +</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page244">[pg 244]</span><a name="Pg244" id="Pg244" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">should be persuaded by false insinuations that Michael +Angelo had spoiled the fabric. He had already walled +in the apse of the King where the three chapels are, and +carried out the three upper windows. But it was not +known what he meant to do with the vault. They +then, misled by their shallow judgment, made Cardinal +Salviati, the elder, and Marcello Cervini, who was afterwards +Pope, believe that Saint Peter's would be badly +lighted. When all were assembled the Pope told Michael +Angelo that the deputies were of opinion the apse would +have but little light. He answered, 'I should like to hear +these deputies speak.' The Cardinal Marcello rejoined: +'We are here.' Michael Angelo then remarked: 'My +lord, above these three windows there will be other three +in the vault, which is to be built of travertine.' 'You +never told us anything about this,' said the Cardinal. +Michael Angelo responded: 'I am not, nor do I mean to +be, obliged to tell your lordships, or anybody else, what I +ought or wish to do. It is your business to provide the +money, and to see that it is not stolen. As regards the +plans of the building, you have to leave them to me.' +Then he turned to the Pope and said: 'Holy Father, behold +what gains are mine! Unless the hardships I endure +are beneficial to my soul, I lose my time and my labour.' +The Pope, who loved him, laid his hands upon his shoulders +and said: 'You are gaining both for soul and body; have +no fear!' Michael Angelo's self-defence increased the +Pope's love, and he ordered him to repair next day with +Vasari to the Vigna Giulia, where they held long discourses +upon matters of art."</span></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Vasari also tells us of the transfer of a piece of engineering +work from Michael Angelo to his enemy—if such +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page245">[pg 245]</span><a name="Pg245" id="Pg245" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>a small man deserves to be called the enemy of Michael +Angelo—Nanni di Baccio Bigio. The old bridge of Santa +Maria had long shown signs of giving way, and it had to +be rebuilt. Paul III. entrusted the work to Michael +Angelo. Nanni got it transferred to him by the influence +of his friends with the new Pope. The man laid his +foundations badly. Michael Angelo, riding over the new +bridge one day with Vasari, cried out: "Giorgio, the +bridge shakes beneath us; let us spur on before it gives +way with us upon it." Ultimately the prophecy was fulfilled, +and the bridge fell during a great inundation. Its +ruins are known as the Ponte Rotto to this day.</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"> </div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Julius III. died in 1555, and Cardinal Marcello +Cervini was elected in his stead, under the title of +Marcellus II. He had been Michael Angelo's adversary at +the great conference, so the hopes of the Setti Sangalleschi +revived, and Michael Angelo began to think of accepting +the oft-repeated invitations of the Duke of Tuscany, who +had long pressed him to come and reside again in Florence, +and dignify his native city with his presence during his +remaining years; but Marcellus died after a reign of only +a few weeks, and Pius IV., the next Pope, persuaded +Michael Angelo not to forsake his work at Saint Peter's. +In a letter to Vasari, intended for the ears of the Duke, +Michael Angelo states his mind.<a id="noteref_166" name="noteref_166" href="#note_166"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">166</span></span></a></p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">To</span></span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Messer Giorgio</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, </span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-style: italic">Excellent Painter, in Florence.</span></span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"I was set to work upon Saint Peter's by force, and I +have served now about eight years, not only for nothing, +but with the utmost injury and discomfort to myself. +</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page246">[pg 246]</span><a name="Pg246" id="Pg246" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">Now that the work is getting forward, and there is money +to spend, and I am about to turn the vault of the cupola, +if I left Rome it would be the ruin of the edifice, and for +me a great disgrace throughout all Christendom, and to my +soul a grievous sin. Therefore, Messer Giorgio, my friend, +I pray you that on my part you will thank the Duke for +his most gracious offer, and that you will ask his Lordship +to give me leave to continue here until such time +as I can depart with fame and honour and without sin.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"The eleventh day of May, 1555.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"Your </span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Michael Angelo Buonarroti</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, in Rome."</span></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Early in the year 1557 serious illness seized Michael +Angelo, and his good friends the Cardinal of Carpi, +Donato Giannotti, Tomaso Cavalieri, Francesco Bandini, +and Lottino ultimately succeeded in persuading him +to make a model of his cupola, that the work might +not be impeded or altered in the event of his death. He +mentions this in a letter to his nephew, Lionardo.<a id="noteref_167" name="noteref_167" href="#note_167"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">167</span></span></a> "I +prayed his Lordship that he would concede me so much +time that I could leave the works at St. Peter's at such a +point that my plans could not be changed. As yet this +point has not been reached; and more, I am now obliged +to construct a large wooden model for the cupola and +lantern, to secure its being finished as it was meant to be. +All Rome, and especially the Cardinal of Carpi, prayed +me to do this, so that I believe that I shall have to remain +here not less than a year; and so much time I beg the +Duke to allow me for the love of Christ and Saint Peter, so +that I may come home to Florence without such a grief, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page247">[pg 247]</span><a name="Pg247" id="Pg247" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>but with a mind free from the necessity of returning to +Rome." This model was constructed by a French master, +named Jean, and took a year to make, as Michael Angelo +expected.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Continuous intrigues caused Michael Angelo to send in +his resignation in a haughty letter dated February 13, +1560, but Pius IV. confirmed the aged artist in his office, +and forbade any alteration of his design for Saint Peter's +after his death. Nanni di Baccio Bigio managed to influence +the deputies so that they appointed him Clerk of +the Works instead of Pier Luigi, surnamed Gaeta, who +was recommended by Michael Angelo in a letter<a id="noteref_168" name="noteref_168" href="#note_168"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">168</span></span></a> to them.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Nanni then made a report, severely blaming Michael +Angelo. The Pope had an interview with the artist, and +sent his relative, Gabrio Serbelloni to report on the works. +It was found that the irrepressible Nanni had again calumniated +Michael Angelo, and he was therefore dismissed.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Notwithstanding the Pope's brief Michael Angelo's +design was most seriously altered after his death by the +erection of a long nave, making the ground plan a Latin +instead of Greek Cross. His idea appears to have been +that people should enter the church up a majestic flight of +steps through a gigantic door, and the hollow recesses of +the huge dome should be the dominant impression as +soon as the portal was passed. To get his effect it is +necessary to proceed half-way up the present nave with +closed eyes, or merely looking at the pavement, the eyes +religiously kept down. Any one who will make this +simple experiment (it is necessary to have a friend as +guide to tell you when you have arrived at the right point +of view) will see that Michael Angelo intended his building +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page248">[pg 248]</span><a name="Pg248" id="Pg248" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>to have the effect of a coherent geometrical whole. The +sublime concave of the dome, with the four arms of the +great cross of equal size, will be all at once grasped by the +eye. The huge building is like a great naturally-formed +crystal with mathematically proportioned limbs, beautiful +in large things as in small. An old writer has well said: +"The cross, which Michael Angelo made Greek, is now +Latin; and if it be thus with the essential form, judge ye +of the details!" The wooden model of the dome made +under Michael Angelo's eyes is still in existence, and was +followed fairly accurately by Giacomo della Porta, who +completed that portion of the work.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Amongst the other schemes that occupied Michael +Angelo was the plan of the improvements upon the +Campidoglio, undertaken by a society of gentlemen and +artists. Paul III. approved their design, and we may +believe, as all Roman citizens will tell us, that Michael +Angelo conceived, at least in its broad lines, the +present effect of the Capitol. Vasari informs us that +Michael Angelo's old friend, Tomaso dei Cavalieri, +superintended the work after the great sculptor's death; +we may trust him not to have departed from the master's +plans. Another scheme that interested Michael Angelo +considerably was the design for the church that the +Florentine residents in Rome wished to erect to their +patron saint, San Giovanni. A letter to his nephew +Lionardo mentions it.<a id="noteref_169" name="noteref_169" href="#note_169"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">169</span></span></a> "The Florentines are minded +to erect a great edifice, that is to say, their church, and +all of them with one accord put pressure on me to attend +to this. I have answered that I am here by the Duke's +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page249">[pg 249]</span><a name="Pg249" id="Pg249" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>licence for the work at Saint Peter's, and that without his +leave they will get nothing out of me." The Duke not +only gave his permission but was enthusiastic about the +scheme. Michael Angelo promised to send him his plan. +"This I have had copied and drawn out more clearly than +I have been able to do it, on account of old age, and will +send it to your most Illustrious Lordship." Vasari tells +us that Tiberio Calcagni, "of gentle manners and discreet +behaviour," not only copied this design, but also made a +model in clay under the master's supervision. Michael +Angelo informed the building committee that "if they +carried it out, neither the Romans or the Greeks ever +erected so fine an edifice in any of their temples; words, +the like of which neither before or afterwards issued from +his lips, for he was exceedingly modest," says Vasari. +Money was lacking and the scheme fell through; both +model and drawing were allowed to perish. The present +church of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, in Strada Giulia, +is the work of Giacomo della Porta; the west part is by +Alessandro Galilei.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Tiberio Calcagni was appointed to finish the bust of +Brutus, now in the Bargello at Florence. Michael Angelo +began it for Cardinal Ridolfi at the request of his friend, +Donato Giannotti. Tiberio had the sense and good +feeling not to touch his master's own work, but only +carved the base and the drapery; the face of the bust +remains a magnificent specimen of the great sculptor's +handiwork. This powerfully-conceived head is said to +have been taken from a small intaglio cut in cornelian. +It has been pointed out that the chisel marks are cut +by both the right and left hand. The vigour of the +workmanship indicates that the bust was begun soon after +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page250">[pg 250]</span><a name="Pg250" id="Pg250" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Michael Angelo left Florence in 1584, and may indicate +Michael Angelo's feelings towards the tyrant Alessandro +de' Medici. We may remember in this connection that +the exiles nicknamed Lorenzino, his murderer, Brutus.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Duke of Florence, through Vasari,<a id="noteref_170" name="noteref_170" href="#note_170"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">170</span></span></a> attempted +to get at the ideas of Michael Angelo with regard to the +Medici Chapel and the entrance to the Laurenziana, but +the old man had lost and forgotten the plans, if he had +ever made them. The difficulties that beset the Duke +and the academicians in completing the designs, and the +meagreness of Michael Angelo's instructions to them, +must give us pause when we attempt to attribute the +faults of these monuments to the master mind. "About +the staircase of the Library, of which so much has been +said to me, believe that if I could remember how I had +arranged it I should not need to be begged for information. +There comes into my mind, as in a dream, the +image of a certain staircase, but I do not believe this can +be the one I then thought of, for it seems so stupid. +Nevertheless, I will write about it."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Leone Leoni erected the <span class="tei tei-corr">monument</span> of Giangiacomo de' +Medici in Milan Cathedral from a design supplied by +Michael Angelo at the request of Pope Pius IV. It is a +fine monument and the bronzes are excellent. In criticising +the design we must remember that Michael Angelo had +never seen the church where it was to be placed, and that +Leone was not the man to hesitate in taking liberties +with another's design, good sculptor as he was, and no +doubt Michael Angelo would have approved of a good +sculptor like him making the design fit the workmanship.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a name="image49" id="image49" class="tei tei-anchor" style="text-align: center"></a> +<a name="fig100" id="fig100"></a></p><div class="tei tei-figure" style="text-align: center"><img src="images/image49.png" width="480" height="635" alt="Image #49" title="BRUTUS" /><div class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">BRUTUS</div><p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, THE BARGELLO, FLORENCE<br /> +(<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-style: italic">By permission of the Fratelli Alinari, Florence</span></span>)</p></div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The old master is supposed to have supplied designs +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page251">[pg 251]</span><a name="Pg251" id="Pg251" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>for many other buildings in Rome, such as the Porta Pia +and the Porta del Popolo, but there is nothing about them +to tell us that his genius is in them; probably slight +sketches were handed over to journeymen, who did pretty +much as they liked with them. It was otherwise with the +great restoration of the Baths of Diocletian. Michael +Angelo was commissioned by Pius IV. to convert them into +the Christian Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli. The +design has been altered by Vansitelli in 1749, and horrible +coloured imitations of clumsy marble altars have been +painted on the walls. Churchwardens' whitewash would +here be well applied. If the visitor will wait in this +church until dusk, when all the tawdry paintings vanish +into darkness, then the great columns will stand out in all +their dignity, and the noble cornice cast a splendid shadow +over the pillars of the huge hall. The roof and the pavement, +with their expression of space and distance, will +whisper "Michael Angelo!"</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When Henry II. of France died, in 1559, his widow, +Catherine de' Medici, wrote to Michael Angelo asking him +to supply at least the design for the equestrian statue of +the late King she desired to set up in the courtyard of the +royal château at Blois. The sketch was prepared and the +work given to Daniele da Volterra. Catherine wrote again +in 1560,<a id="noteref_171" name="noteref_171" href="#note_171"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">171</span></span></a> telling the sculptor that she had deposited +6000 golden scudi with Gianbattista Gondi for the said +work, "therefore, since on my side nothing remains to be +done, I entreat you by the love you have always shown to +my house, to our country,<a id="noteref_172" name="noteref_172" href="#note_172"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">172</span></span></a> and lastly to genius, that you +will endeavour with all diligence and assiduity, so far as +your years permit, to carry out this noble work, so that +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page252">[pg 252]</span><a name="Pg252" id="Pg252" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>we may see and recognise my lord as in life by the accustomed +excellence of your unique genius. Although you +cannot add to your fame, yet you will at least augment +your reputation for a most grateful and loving spirit +toward myself and my ancestors, and will through centuries +keep fresh the memory of my lawful and only love, for +which I shall be ready and willing to reward you liberally." +The Queen had seen Michael Angelo's sketch, and she adds +in a postscript that "the king's head must be without +curls, and the modern rich style of armour and trappings +must be employed." She is very particular about the likeness +and sends a portrait; evidently she did not want anything +like the Roman generals in the Medici Chapel at +Florence. When Michael Angelo died the work was left +in the hands of Daniele, who was a slow workman, as Cellini +tells us. In 1566 Daniele died also, and only the +horse was cast; it now serves as part of Biard's statue of +Louis XIII.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In 1560 Leone Leoni made the well-known medal of +Michael Angelo, which is our best portrait of him. It +represents him in old age. Vasari relates the incident: +"At this time the Cavaliere Leone made a very lovely +portrait of Michael Angelo upon a medal, and to meet his +wishes modelled on the reverse a blind man led by a dog, +with this legend round the rim:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">DOCEBO INIQUOS VIAS TVAS, ET IMPII AD TE CONVERTENTUR</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It pleased Michael Angelo so much that he gave Leone a +wax model of a Hercules strangling Antæus, by his own +hand, together with some drawings. There exist no other +portraits of Michael Angelo, except two in painting, one +by Bugiardini, the other by Jacopo del Conte; and one in +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page253">[pg 253]</span><a name="Pg253" id="Pg253" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>bronze, in full relief, made by Daniele da Volterra. These, +and Leoni's medal, from which many copies have been made, +and a great number of them have been seen by me in +several parts of Italy and abroad." Francesco d'Olanda +made a drawing of the old man in hat and mantle.<a id="noteref_173" name="noteref_173" href="#note_173"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">173</span></span></a> +Another portrait of Michael Angelo is introduced into +Marcello Venusti's copy of the Last Judgment, now in the +Picture Gallery at Naples. The original study for it may +be the portrait in the Casa Buonarroti, at Florence; it was +frequently repeated by him. One replica may be the portrait, +said to be by Michael Angelo's own hand, at the +Capitol. The apostle in red on the spectator's right of +the picture of the Assumption, by Daniele da Volterra, in +the Church of the Trinità de' Monti, in Rome, is also said +to be a portrait of Daniele's friend and master, who had +supplied him with the design for his great Crucifixion in +the same church. There is a life-size, full-face charcoal +drawing of the master in the Teyler Museum at Haarlem +which may be by the hand of Daniele, it has been pricked +for tracing. Bonasoni engraved a profile portrait of +Michael Angelo; it is dated 1546. It is a very faithful +and beautiful piece of work, and tells us what he looked +like at the age of seventy-two.<a id="noteref_174" name="noteref_174" href="#note_174"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">174</span></span></a> The bronze bust by +Daniele da Volterra, of which there are several copies, looks +as if it had been modelled from a mask taken after death; +at least, it was finished from one. Battista Lorenzi executed +the bronze bust on Michael Angelo's tomb at Santa Croce, +in Florence, from a similar mask.<a id="noteref_175" name="noteref_175" href="#note_175"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">175</span></span></a></p> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page254">[pg 254]</span><a name="Pg254" id="Pg254" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>During all these later years, Michael Angelo kept up +a brisk correspondence with his dutiful nephew Lionardo +about the purchase of land in Florence, and other family +matters.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Giovan Simone, the elder of Michael Angelo's surviving +brothers, died in 1548.<a id="noteref_176" name="noteref_176" href="#note_176"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">176</span></span></a></p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Lionardo</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">,—I hear from your last of Giovan Simone's +death. It gives me the greatest sorrow, for I still hoped, +although I am old, to have seen him before he died, and +before I died. God has willed it so. Patience! I should +like to hear particularly how he died, and if he confessed +and communicated with all the ordinances of the Church. +For if he did so, and I know it, I shall suffer less." +All through his life Michael Angelo is most punctilious +about the observances of the Church.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">Lionardo was now the only hope of continuing the +family, so his uncle reminds him that if he does not +soon marry and get children, his property will all go to +the Hospital of San Martino.</span><a id="noteref_177" name="noteref_177" href="#note_177"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">177</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 90%"> Old bachelor as he is, he +gives his nephew advice, in another letter, as to the choice +of a wife: "You ought not to look for a dower, but only +to consider whether the girl is well brought up, healthy, +of good character, and noble blood. You are not yourself +of such parts and person as to be worthy of the first +beauty of Florence. Let me tell you not to run after +money, but only look for virtue and good name."</span></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lionardo married Cassandra Ridolfi in the year 1553, +and the first child born of this marriage was a boy, by +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page255">[pg 255]</span><a name="Pg255" id="Pg255" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Michael Angelo's wish he was named Buonarroto. "I +shall be very pleased if the name of Buonarroto does not +die out of our family, it having lasted three hundred years +with us."<a id="noteref_178" name="noteref_178" href="#note_178"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">178</span></span></a> Vasari wrote to Michael Angelo describing the +festivities at the christening. Giorgio held the child at +the font in the Baptistry, "Mio bel Giovanni," as Michael +Angelo always called it.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The letters to Vasari are full of a courtly friendship +and regard; they are very pleasant reading. One of them +is the most beautiful and touching letter by his hand, +referring to the death of his servant Francesco, called +Urbino.<a id="noteref_179" name="noteref_179" href="#note_179"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">179</span></span></a></p> + +<div class="block tei tei-quote" style="margin-bottom: 1.80em; margin-left: 3.60em; margin-top: 1.80em; margin-right: 3.60em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"</span><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Messer Giorgio, dear friend</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">,—Although I write but +badly, yet will I say a few words in reply to yours. You +know that Urbino is dead, for which I owe the greatest +thanks to God; at the same time my loss is heavy and +sorrow infinite. The grace is this, that while Urbino +living kept me alive, in dying he has taught me to die not +unwillingly, but rather with a desire for death. I had +him with me twenty-six years, and always found him +faithful and true. Now that I had made him rich, and +thought to keep him as the staff and rest of my old age, +he has departed, and the only hope left to me is that of +seeing him again in Paradise, and of this God has given a +sign in his most happy death. Even more than dying, it +grieved him to leave me alive in this treacherous world, +with so many troubles; the better part of me went with +him, nothing is left to me but endless sorrow. I +commend myself to you, and beg you, if it is not a +</span><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page256">[pg 256]</span><a name="Pg256" id="Pg256" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span style="font-size: 90%">trouble to you, to make my excuses to Messer Benvenuto</span><a id="noteref_180" name="noteref_180" href="#note_180"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">180</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 90%"> +for not answering his letter, for grief abounds in such +thoughts as these, so that I cannot write. Commend me +to him, and I commend myself to you.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"Your </span><span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: right"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Michael Angelo Buonarrota</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, in Rome.</span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style="font-size: 90%">"The 23 day of February, 1556."</span></p> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Was ever servant loved after this fashion by his +master?</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"> </div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Urbino appointed Michael Angelo as one of his +executors, and the old man fulfilled his irksome duties +with fidelity. Urbino's brother was Raphael's well-known +pupil Il Fattore. Cornelia, Urbino's wife, corresponded +about the children and other affairs. Michael Angelo had +to approve her choice of a second husband, and interviewed +him, and made him promise to be a second father to +Urbino's children.</p> + +<div class="tei tei-tb"> </div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The unusual event of an excursion by Michael Angelo +into the country took place in 1556, possibly with a +view to avoiding the troubles feared in Rome from the +Duke of Alva, Spanish Viceroy of Naples. Michael +Angelo informed his nephew that he was making a +pilgrimage to Loreto, but feeling tired stopped to rest at +Spoleto. To Vasari he says: "I have in these days had +a great pleasure, but with great discomfort and expense, +among the mountains of Spoleto, visiting the hermits +there. Less than half of me has come back to Rome, for +truly there is no peace except among the woods."<a id="noteref_181" name="noteref_181" href="#note_181"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">181</span></span></a></p> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc101" id="toc101"></a><a name="pdf102" id="pdf102"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page257">[pg 257]</span><a name="Pg257" id="Pg257" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">CHAPTER XI</span></h2> + +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 2.40em; margin-top: 2.40em"><span style="font-size: 120%">THE END</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Michael Angelo's little circle of devoted friends in +Rome were very anxious about him during the winter +of 1563-64. Although almost fourscore years and ten +he would still walk abroad in all weathers, and took none +of the precautions usual for a man of his age. Tiberio +Calcagni, writing on February 14 to Lionardo, says in +the letter published by Daelli:<a id="noteref_182" name="noteref_182" href="#note_182"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">182</span></span></a> "Walking through Rome +to-day I heard from many persons that Messer Michael +Angelo was ill, so I went at once to visit him, and +although it was raining I found him out of doors on foot. +When I saw him I said that I did not think it right and +seemly for him to be going about in such weather. 'What +do you want?' he answered; 'I am ill, and cannot find rest +anywhere!' The uncertainty of his speech, with the look +and colour of his face, made me extremely uneasy about +his life. The end may not be just now, but I fear greatly +that it cannot be far off." The gray colour and the uneasiness +of an old man who has suffered a slight stroke are +evidently indicated here. During the next four days he +lived in his arm-chair. On the 15th, Diomede Leoni wrote +to Lionardo, with a letter enclosed, signed by Michael Angelo +but written by Daniele da Volterra.<a id="noteref_183" name="noteref_183" href="#note_183"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">183</span></span></a> After exhorting +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page258">[pg 258]</span><a name="Pg258" id="Pg258" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Lionardo to come to Rome, but to run no risks by travelling +too fast, he adds, "as you may be certain Messer Tomaso +dei Cavalieri, Messer Daniele, and I will not fail during your +absence in every possible service in your place. Besides, +Antonio, the old and faithful servant of the master, will +give a good account of himself under any circumstances. + ... If the illness of the master be dangerous, which God +forbid, you could not be in time to find him alive, even if +you could make more haste than is possible. But to give +you a little account of the state of Messere up to this +hour, which is the third of the night,<a id="noteref_184" name="noteref_184" href="#note_184"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">184</span></span></a> I inform you that +just now I left him quite composed and fully conscious, +but oppressed with continual drowsiness. In order to +shake it off, between twenty-two and twenty-three,<a id="noteref_185" name="noteref_185" href="#note_185"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">185</span></span></a> this +very day he tried to mount his horse and go for a ride, as +he was wont to do every evening in good weather, but the +coolness of the season and the weakness of his head and +legs prevented him, so he went back to his seat a little way +from the fire. He greatly prefers this chair to his bed. +We all pray God to preserve him unto us still for some +years and that He may bring you here in safety, to whom +I earnestly commend myself."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Two days later, on the 17th, Tiberio Calcagni wrote:<a id="noteref_186" name="noteref_186" href="#note_186"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">186</span></span></a> +"This is only to beg you to hasten your coming as much +as possible, even though the weather be bad. For your +Messer Michael Angelo is going to leave us indeed, and +he would have this one satisfaction the more."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Michael Angelo died a little before five o'clock on the +afternoon of February 18, 1564. His physicians, Federigo +Donati and Gherardo Fidelissimi, were with him at the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page259">[pg 259]</span><a name="Pg259" id="Pg259" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>last. Giorgio Vasari tells us "he made his will in three +words, committing his soul into the hands of God, his +body to the earth, and his goods to his nearest relatives, +telling them when their hour came to remember the +Passion of Jesus Christ."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Florentine envoy sent a despatch to inform the +Duke of the event, and he tells him the arrangements +made as to the inventory of property and the disposal for +safe-keeping of seven or eight thousand crowns found in a +sealed box, opened in the presence of Messer Tomaso dei +Cavalieri and Maestro Daniele da Volterra. The people of +the house are to be examined whether anything has been +carried away from it. This is not supposed to have been +the case. "As far as drawings are concerned they say +that he burned what he had by him before he died. +What there is shall be handed over to his nephew when +he comes, and this your Excellency can inform him." The +list of works of art found in the house is very small. They +were:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A blocked-out statue of Saint Peter.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">An unfinished Christ with another figure.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A statuette of Christ with the Cross, like the Risen +Christ in Santa Maria Sopra Minerva; and</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ten original drawings, one, a Pietà, belonged to +Tommaso dei Cavalieri.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A little design for the façade of a palace.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A design for a window in the Church of Saint Peters.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">An old plan of the Church of Saint Peter's, said to be +after the model of San Gallo, on several pieces of paper +glued together.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A drawing of three small figures.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Architectural drawings for a window and other details.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page260">[pg 260]</span><a name="Pg260" id="Pg260" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>A large cartoon for a Pietà, with nine figures, +unfinished.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Another large cartoon, with three large figures and +two putti.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Another large cartoon, with one large figure only.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Another large cartoon, with the figures of our Lord +Jesus Christ and the glorious Virgin Mary, His mother.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Another, the Epiphany.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This last drawing was presented to the notary who +drew up the will, and is supposed to be the cartoon now +in the British Museum; all the others went to Lionardo +Buonarroti. Lionardo arrived three days after the death. +The body was deposited upon a catafalque in the Church of +the Santissimi Apostoli, where the funeral was celebrated +by all the artists and Florentines in Rome. In fulfilment +of the wish of Michael Angelo, repeated two days before +his death, Lionardo made arrangements for the removal of +his uncle's remains to Florence. But the Romans, who regarded +him as a fellow citizen, resented this, and Lionardo +was obliged to send the body away disguised as a bale of +merchandise, addressed to the custom-house at Florence. +Vasari wrote, on March 10, duly informing him that the +packing-case had arrived, and had been left under seals +until Lionardo's arrival at the custom-house. Notwithstanding +this letter from Vasari, it appears that the body +was removed, on March 11, to the oratory of the Assunta, +beneath the Church of San Pietro Maggiore. Next day +the painters, sculptors, and architects of the newly-founded +Academy, of which Michael Angelo had been elected +Principal after the Duke, met at the church, intending to +bring the body secretly to Santa Croce. They had with +them only an embroidered pall of velvet and a crucifix to +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page261">[pg 261]</span><a name="Pg261" id="Pg261" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>place upon the bier. At night the elder men lighted +torches and the younger strove with one another to bear +the coffin. Meantime the curious Florentines found out +that something was going forward, and a great concourse +assembled as the news spread that Michael Angelo was +being carried to Santa Croce, and huge crowds followed the +humble procession, lighted by the flaring torches such as the +Misericordia carry to this day. The vast church of Santa +Croce was so crowded that the pall-bearers had difficulty +in reaching the sacristy with their burden. When they at +last got there, Don Vincenzo Borghini, Lieutenant of the +Academy, "thinking he would do what was pleasing to +many, and also, as he afterwards confessed, desiring to +behold in death one whom he had never seen in life, or, +at any rate, at such an age that he did not remember it, +ordered the coffin to be opened. When this was done, +whereas he and all of us present expected to find the +corpse already corrupted and defaced, inasmuch as Michael +Angelo had been dead twenty-five days and twenty-two in +his coffin, lo! we beheld him instead perfect in all his +parts and without any evil odour; indeed, we might +have believed that he was resting in a sweet and very +tranquil slumber. Not only were the features of his face +exactly the same as when he was in life (except that the +colour was a little like that of death), none of his limbs +were injured or repulsive; the head and cheeks to the +touch felt as though he had passed away only a few +hours before. When the eagerness of the multitude +who crowded round had calmed down a little, the coffin +was deposited in the church, behind the altar of the +Cavalcanti."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Those who would read of the gorgeous catafalque of +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page262">[pg 262]</span><a name="Pg262" id="Pg262" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>stucco, woodwork, and painting erected in the Church of +San Lorenzo by the Academy, may do so in the pages of +Vasari, and in the book called "Esequie del Divino Michel +Angelo Buonarroti, celebrate in Firenze dall' Academia, &c., +Firenze, i Giunti, 1564," and Varchi's "Orazione Funerali," +published by the same house at the same date. The great +artist is dead: let us leave him to his rest in Santa Croce, +the Westminster Abbey of his city and the church of +his ward.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Vasari received from Lionardo Buonarroti the commission +to design the tomb for Santa Croce. He did his +best to get the Pietà now in the Duomo to serve as the +principal part of the monument, asserting that it had been +intended by Michael Angelo for his monument. "Besides, +there is an old man in the group who represents the +sculptor." This plan did not succeed, and the ugly monument +now in existence was designed instead. The Duke +supplied the marbles, and the figures were carved by +Giovanni dall' Opera, Lorenzi and Valerio Cioli. The bust +portrait in bronze was modelled by Battista Lorenzi. It +was erected in 1570, and bears the inscription:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em"> +MICHAELI ANGELO BONAROTIO<br /> +E VETVSTA SIMONIORVM FAMILIA<br /> +SCVLPTORI. PICTORI. ET ARCHITECTO<br /> +FAMA OMNIBVS NOTISSIMO.<br /> +LEONARDVS PATRVO AMANTIS. ET DE SE OPTIME MERITO<br /> +TRANSLATIS ROMA EIVS OSSIBVS. ATQVE IN HOC TEMPLO MAIOR<br /> +SVOR SEPVLCRO CONDITIS. COHORTANTE SERENISS. COSMO MED.<br /> +MAGNO HETRVRIAE DVCE. P. C.<br /> +ANN. SAL. CIC. IC. LXX<br /> +VIXIT ANN. LXXXVIII. M. XI. D. XV.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Romans also erected a monument in the church +where they had hoped to keep the bones of the artist who +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page263">[pg 263]</span><a name="Pg263" id="Pg263" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>did more for their Immortal City than any man who ever +lived. Over this monument is the following epitaph:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">MICHAEL ANGELUS<br /> +BONARROTIUS<br /> +SCULPTOR PICTOR ARCHITECTUS<br /> +MAXIMA ARTIFICUM FREQUENTIA<br /> +IN HAC BASILICA SS. XII APOST. F.M.C.<br /> +XI CAL. MART. A. MDLXIV ELATUS EST<br /> +CLAM INDE FLORENTIAM TRANSLATUS<br /> +ET IN TEMPLO S. CRUCIS EORUMD. F.<br /> +V. ID. MART. EJUSD. A. CONDITUS<br /> +TANTO NOMINI<br /> +NULLUM PAR ELOGIUM</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Michael Angelo formed no school, his love of excellence +would not permit him to leave any inferior work behind +him, as Raphael did in certain portions of the Stanze and +Loggia of the Vatican. Michael Angelo's disposition was +not so genial nor were his manners so universally pleasing +as those of the gentle Raphael, so he was unable to keep +a body of workmen together in good temper; the result is, +we have no Sala of Constantine, or Palazzo del Tè, to +remind us of the passing of the master of a school. At +the same time, to his few assistants and workmen Michael +Angelo was as kind as father to son, when once he +became accustomed to them about him. He gave help +to various other artists, and it may be noted that all +those he influenced became men devoted to high finish +and the utmost perfection possible. Decadence in Italian +art began long before his death; but the imitators of +Michael Angelo are by far the best and most interesting +figures of that unfortunate period. They, at least, have +great intentions, and strive to attain a style of dignity and +distinction, and do not grudge any labour that may help +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page264">[pg 264]</span><a name="Pg264" id="Pg264" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>them to their ideals. Vasari tells us of some of these +men and their works: "He loved his workmen and was on +friendly terms with them. Among them were Jacopo +Sansovino, Il Pontormo, Daniele da Volterra, and Giorgio +Vasari Aretino, to whom he showed infinite kindness...." +He goes on to say that "he was unfortunate in those who +lived with him, since he chanced upon natures unfit to +follow him. For Pietro Urbano, of Pistoja, his pupil, was +a man of talent, but would never work hard. Antonio +Mini had the will but not the brain, and hard wax takes +a bad impression. Ascanio della Ripa Transone (Condivi) +worked very hard, but nothing came of it either in work +or in designs." Jacopo l'Indaco and Mineghella were boon +companions of the master. A stone-cutter Domenico Fancelli +nicknamed Topolino, Pilote the goldsmith, Giuliano Bugiardini +the painter, were of this company. The melancholy +Michael Angelo is said to have burst his sides with laughing +at Mineghella's stupidity. The very proper Vasari describes +the latter as "a mean and stupid painter of Valdarno, +but a very amusing person; and Michael Angelo, +who could with difficulty be made to work for kings, would +leave everything to make simple drawings for this fellow, +San Rocco, San Antonio, or San Francesco, to be coloured +for one of the man's many peasant patrons; among others +Michael Angelo made him a very beautiful model of a +Christ on the Cross, made a mould from it, and Mineghella +cast it in <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">papier-maché</span></span> and went about selling it all over +the country-side." It may be that the familiar and often-repeated +Crucifix in common use is an adaptation or copy, +far removed from this original; it has something of the +style of Michael Angelo's later work, the figure is most +beautifully disposed.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page265">[pg 265]</span><a name="Pg265" id="Pg265" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Sebastiano del Piombo lightened the old man's labour by +his genial humour and jovial companionship; Sebastiano +followed his teaching with great industry and skill, as all +his later works show; such as the Scourging of Christ, +in San Pietro in Montorio, and the Raising of Lazarus, +in our own National Gallery: drawings by the hand of +Michael Angelo still exist for the principal figures in both +these pictures. There is a Pietà by Sebastiano, at +Viterbo, evidently following the lines of one of Michael +Angelo's religious drawings; it is so beautiful in the +expression of its colour and the high finish of the nude, +that we cannot but think that Michael Angelo's exacting +eyes were peering over the shoulder of Sebastiano when he +painted it.</p> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Per ritornar là donde venne fora,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">L' immortal forma al tuo carcer terreno</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Venne com' angel di pietà si pieno</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Che sana ogn' intelletto, e'l mondo onora.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Questo sol m' arde, eqesto m' innamora;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Non pur di fora il tuo volto sereno:</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Ch' amor non già di cosa che vien meno</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Tien ferma speme, in cu' virtù dimora.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Nè altro avvien di cose altere e nuove</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">In cui si preme la natura; e'l cielo</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">E ch' a lor parto largo s' apparecchia.</div> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Nè Dio, suo grazia, mi si mostra altrove,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Più che 'n alcun leggiadro e mortal velo;</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">È quel sol amo, perchè 'n quel si specchia.</div> +</div> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc103" id="toc103"></a><a name="pdf104" id="pdf104"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page268">[pg 268]</span><a name="Pg268" id="Pg268" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">APPENDIX</span></h1> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">THREE DIALOGUES ON PAINTING COMPOSED<br /> +BY FRANCISCO D'OLLANDA, A PORTUGUESE<br /> +MINIATURE PAINTER WHO WAS IN ROME<br /> +IN THE YEAR 1538. TRANSLATED<br /> +FROM THE PORTUGUESE, WITH<br /> +THE HELP OF MR. A.J. CLIFT,<br /> +BY CHARLES HOLROYD. THE<br /> +MANUSCRIPT WAS PUBLISHED<br /> +FOR THE FIRST<br /> +TIME IN THE RENASCENCA<br /> +PORTUGUEZA<br /> +NO. VII.<br /> +PORTO,<br /> +1896</p> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc105" id="toc105"></a><a name="pdf106" id="pdf106"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page269">[pg 269]</span><a name="Pg269" id="Pg269" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">FIRST DIALOGUE</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">My intention in going to Italy was not to seek for advantage +or honour, but to study. I was sent there by my King, and I +had no other interest in view (such as having intercourse with +the Pope or with the Cardinals of the Court; and this God +knows and Rome knows, if I had wished to dwell there per-adventure +I did not lack opportunities, both for myself and +by the favour of the principal persons in the Pope's household), +but all ideas of this kind were so subdued in me, that I +did not even allow them to enter into my imagination; others +I had, more noble and more to my taste, which had much +more power over me than covetousness or expectation of +benefits such as many people have who go to Rome. What +alone was always present to me was how I, with my art, +might serve the king our Lord, who had sent me there, +communing always with myself how I could steal and convey +away to Portugal the excellencies and beauties of Italy to +please the King and the Infantas and the most serene Infante +D. Luiz. I used to say to myself: What fortresses or foreign +cities have I not yet in my book? What immortal buildings +and what noble statues does this city still possess which I +have not already stolen from it and carried away without carts +or ships on thin paper? What painting, stucco, or grotesque +has been discovered amongst these grottoes and antiquities of +Rome, Puzol, and Baias, of which the most rare is not to be +found in my sketch-books? Thus I beheld nothing either +antique or modern in painting, sculpture or architecture of +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page270">[pg 270]</span><a name="Pg270" id="Pg270" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>which I did not make some record of its best part, it appearing +to me that these were the greatest benefits that I could +carry away with me, more honourable and profitable to the +service of my King and to my own taste. I do not think I +have made a mistake (although some people tell me I have), +for as these things alone were my care, my dispute and +demand, no great Cardinal Fernes had to help me, nor had I +a greater Dattario to obtain, in order to go one day to see +D. Julio de Macedonia, a most famous illuminator, and another +day Master Michael Angelo, now Baccio the noble sculptor; +then Master Perino, or Bastiäo Veneziano, and sometimes +Valerio de Vicença, or Jacopo Mellequino, architect, and +Lactancio Tolomei, the acquaintance and friendship of these +men I valued much more than others of more parade and +pretension (as if there could be greater in the world, and so +Rome values them); because from them, and from their +works in my art, I obtained some fruit and knowledge. I +amused myself in discussing with them many rare and noble +works both of ancient and modern times. Master Michael +especially I esteemed so much that if I met him either in the +palace of the Pope or in the street, we could not part until +the stars sent us to rest. D. Pedro Mascarenhas, the Ambassador, +is my witness what a great thing this was and how +difficult; and, too, of the tales M. Angelo, when coming out +of vespers one day, told about me and about a book of mine +in which I had drawn some things in Rome and Italy, to +Cardinal Santtiquatro and to him. Now my habit was to go +round the solemn temple of the Pantheon and note all its +columns and proportions; the Mausoleum of Adrian and that +of Augustus, the Coliseum, the Thermæ of Antoninus and +those of Diocletian, the Arch of Titus and that of Severus, +the Capitol, the theatre of Marcellus and all the other notable +things in that city, the names of which have already escaped +me. At times, too, I was not turned out of the magnificent +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page271">[pg 271]</span><a name="Pg271" id="Pg271" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>chambers of the Pope, I only went there because they were +painted by the noble hand of Raphael of Urbino. I loved +more those antique men of stone sculptured on the arches +and columns of the old buildings, than those more inconstant +which everywhere weary one with talking, I learned more +from them and from their grave silence.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Now amongst the days which I thus passed in that Court +there was a Sunday on which I went to see Messer Lactancio +Tolomei, as others did; it was he, with the assistance of +Messer Blosio, the Pope's secretary, who gave me the friendship +of Michael Angelo. And this M. Lactancio was a very +important personage, both on account of nobility of mind and +of blood (he being a nephew of the Cardinal of Siena), as +well as through his knowledge of Latin, Greek and Hebrew +letters, and for the authority of his years. But finding in +his house a message that he was at Monte Cavallo, in the +church of St. Silvester, with the Lady Marchioness of Pescara, +listening to a lecture from the Epistles of St. Paul, I went to +Monte Cavallo and to St. Silvester. Now Senhora Vittoria +Colonna, Marchioness of Pescara, and sister of Senhor Ascanio +Colonna, is one of the most illustrious and famous ladies in +Italy and in all Europe, which is the world, chaste yet beautiful, +a Latin scholar, well-informed and with all the other parts +of virtue and fairness to be praised in woman. She, after +the death of her great husband, took to a private and simple +life, contenting herself with the fact that she had already +lived in her estate, and loving henceforward only Jesu Christ +and good deeds, doing good to poor women and bearing the +fruits of a true Catholic. For my friendship with this lady +also I was indebted to M. Lactancio, who was the most +intimate friend that she had.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Having commanded me to sit down, the lecture and its +praises over, the Marchioness looking at me and at M. Lactancio, +if I remember rightly, said:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page272">[pg 272]</span><a name="Pg272" id="Pg272" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>"Francisco d'Ollanda will be better pleased to hear +M. Angelo talk about painting, than Brother Ambrosio +expound this lesson."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Then I, almost angry, answered her:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Why, madam, does it appear to your Excellency that I +can attend to nothing but painting? Truly I shall always be +pleased to hear M. Angelo, but when the Epistles of St. Paul +are read, I prefer to hear Brother Ambrosio."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"Do not be angry, M. Francisco," M. Lactancio then said, +"for the Marchioness does not think that the man who is a +painter will not be everything. We esteem painting higher +in Italy. But perchance she said that to you in order to give +you, beyond what you already have, the further pleasure of +hearing Michael."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I then replied:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"Her Excellency will be doing no more than she is in the +habit of doing, giving always greater favours than one dares +to ask."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Marchioness, knowing my mind, called one of her +servants, and said, smiling:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"To those who know how to express thanks one must +study how to give, especially as I get as much in the giving +as Francisco d'Ollanda does in receiving. Foao, go to the +house of M. Angelo and tell him that I and M. Lactancio are +here in this quiet chapel, and that the church is closed and +very pleasant, if he cares to come and lose a little of the day +with us, so that we may gain it with him. And do not tell +him that Francisco d'Ollanda, the Spaniard, is here."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As I was whispering something about the discretion of the +Marchioness in everything, in the ear of Lactancio, she desired +to know what it was about.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"He was telling me," said Lactancio, "how well your +Excellency knows how to preserve decorum in everything, +even in a message. M. Michael is already more his friend +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page273">[pg 273]</span><a name="Pg273" id="Pg273" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>than mine, for he tells me that when they meet, Michael +Angelo does all he can to shun his company, seeing that +when they once come together they never can part."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"I know that, for I know Master Michael Angelo," she +returned; "but I do not know in what manner we shall treat +him so that we may lead him on to talk of painting."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Brother Ambrosio of Siena (one of the appointed preachers +to the Pope), who had not yet gone, said: "I do not believe +that if Michael knows the Spaniard to be a painter, he will +talk about painting at all, therefore let him hide himself +that he may hear him."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"It is perhaps not so easy to hide this Portuguese," I +replied with emphasis to the Friar, "from the eyes of Master +Michael Angelo; he will know me better hidden than your +reverence does here where I am, even if you put on spectacles; +and you will see that, being here, he will see me very plainly +if he comes."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Then the Marchioness and Lactancio laughed, but not I nor +yet the Friar, who however heard the Marchioness say that he +would find me to be something more than a painter.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After remaining but a short time silent, we heard a knocking +at the door, and all began to fear that Michael would not +come, as the messenger had returned so quickly. But Michael, +who resides at the foot of Monte Cavallo, happened by good +luck to be walking towards St. Silvester, on his way to the +Thermae by the Esquiline road with his Orbino, philosophising +by the way; being informed of the message, he could not +run away from us, nor did he fail to be the person knocking +at the door. The Marchioness rose to receive him, and remained +standing awhile before causing him to take a seat +between her and M. Lactancio. I sat a little way off, but the +Marchioness, remaining awhile without speaking, not wishing +to delay her practice of honouring those who conversed with +her, and the place where she was, commenced, with an art that +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page274">[pg 274]</span><a name="Pg274" id="Pg274" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>I could not describe, to say many things very well expressed, +and with thoughts most graciously stated, without ever touching +on painting, in order to ensure the great painter to us; and +I saw her as one wishing to reduce a well armed city by discretion +and guile; and we saw the painter, too, standing watchful +and vigilant, as if he were besieged, placing sentries in one +place and ordering bridges to be raised in another, making +mines and defending all the walls and towers; but finally the +Marchioness had to conquer, nor do I know who could defend +himself against her.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">She said: "It is known that whoever comes into conflict +with M. Angelo in his own speciality, which is discretion, +cannot but be vanquished. It is necessary, M. Lactancio, that +we should talk with him about actions or briefs or painting to +put him to silence and to obtain any advantage over him."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"Nay," I then said, "I know of no better way of wearying +M. Angelo than by informing him that I am here, as he has +not seen me hitherto. But I already know that the way not +to see a person is to have him before one's eyes."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">You should then have seen Michael turn himself towards +me with astonishment, and say:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"Forgive me, M. Francisco, for not having seen you for +had I not the Marchioness before my eyes, but as God has +sent you here, assist and help me as a comrade."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"For that reason only will I forgive you; but it seems to me +that the Marchioness causes with one light contrary effects, +as the sun does, which with the same rays melts and hardens, +because you were blinded by seeing her and I both hear and +see you, because I see her; and also because I know how much +a wise person will occupy himself with her Excellency, and how +little time she leaves for others; and therefore at times I do +not take the advice of some friars."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Here the Marchioness laughed again.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Then Friar Ambrosio rose and took leave of the Marchioness +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page275">[pg 275]</span><a name="Pg275" id="Pg275" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>and of us, remaining thenceforward a great friend of mine, +and he went away.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And now the Marchioness began to speak thus:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"His Holiness has done me the favour of allowing me to +build a nunnery for ladies here at the foot of Monte Cavallo, +by the broken portico, where it is said that Nero saw Rome +burning, so that the wicked footprints of such a man may be +trodden out by others more honest of holy women. I do not +know, M. Angelo, what shape and proportions to give to the +house, where the door should be placed, and whether some +of the old work may be adapted to the new?"</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"Yes, madam," said Michael, "the broken portico might be +used as a campanile."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And this was so pleasant, and Michael said it so seriously +and in such a manner that M. Lactancio could not help calling +attention to it; and the great painter added these words:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"I quite think your Excellency may build the nunnery; and +when we leave here, with your permission, we may very well +go and look at the site, so as to give you some drawing +for it."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"I did not dare to ask you for so much," she said, "but I +already knew that in everything you follow the doctrine of the +Lord: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">deposuit potentes, exaltavit humiles</span></span>; and in that also you +are excellent, for you acknowledge yourself at last as discreetly +generous and not as an ignorant prodigal. And therefore +in Rome those who know you esteem you even more than +your works; and those who do not know you esteem only the +least of you, which are the works of your hands. And certainly +I do not give any less praise to your knowledge of how +to retire within yourself and fly from our useless conversations, +and to your wisdom in not painting for all the princes who ask +you to do so, but confining yourself to the painting of a single +work during all your life as you have done,"</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"Madam," said Michael, "perchance you attribute to me +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page276">[pg 276]</span><a name="Pg276" id="Pg276" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>more than I deserve; but in doing so you remind me that I +wish to make a complaint against many persons, on my own +behalf and on behalf of painters of my temperament, and also +on behalf of M. Francisco here.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"There are many persons who maintain a thousand lies, and +one is that eminent painters are eccentric and that their conversation +is intolerable and harsh, they are only human all the +while, and thus fools and unreasonable persons consider them +fantastic and fanciful, allowing them with much difficulty the +conditions necessary to a painter. It is quite true that such +conditions are only necessary where there is a real painter, +which is in very few places, as in Italy, where there is the +perfection of all things; but foolish, idle persons are unreasonable +in expecting so many compliments from a busy +man: few mortals fulfil their duty well, one who does will not +accuse another who is fulfilling his; painters are not in any +way unsociable through pride, but either because they find +few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt +themselves with the useless conversation of idle people, and +debase the intellect from the lofty imaginations in which +they are always absorbed. And I affirm to your Excellency +that even his Holiness annoys and wearies me when at times +he talks to me and asks me somewhat roughly why do I not +come to see him, for I believe that I serve him better in not +going when he asks me, little needing me, when I wish to +work for him in my house; and I tell him that, as M. Angelo, +I serve him more thus than by standing before him all day, +as others do,"</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"Oh, happy M. Angelo," said I at this stage, "my prince +is not a Pope, can he forgive me such a sin?"</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"Such sins, M. Francisco, are just those which kings +pardon," said he, and added: "Sometimes, I may tell you, +my important duties have given me so much licence that +when, as I am talking to the Pope, I put this old felt hat non-chalantly +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page277">[pg 277]</span><a name="Pg277" id="Pg277" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>on my head, and talk to him very frankly, but even +for that he does not kill me; on the contrary, he has given me +a livelihood.<a id="noteref_187" name="noteref_187" href="#note_187"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">187</span></span></a> And as I say, I have paid him more compliments +in his service than unnecessary ones to his person. If +perchance a man were so blind as to invent such an unprofitable +exchange, as it is for a man to separate himself and content +himself with himself whilst he loses his friends and makes +enemies of all, would it not be very wrong if they bore him +ill-will for that? But whoever has such a complexion both +because the force of his duty demands it, and because of his +having been born with a dislike of ceremony and dissimulation, +it seems very foolish not to allow him to live. And if +such a man is so moderate that he does not want anything of +you, what do you want with him? And why should you +wish to use him in those vanities for which his quietness is +not fitted? Do you not know that there are sciences that +require the whole man without ever leaving him free for your +idle trivialities? When he has as little to do as you have, let +him be killed if he does not observe your rules of etiquette +and compliment even better than you. You only seek his +company and praise him in order to obtain honour through +him for yourselves, nor do you really mind what sort of man +he is, so long as a pope or an emperor converse with him. +And I dare affirm that he cannot be a great man who tries to +satisfy idle persons rather than the men of his own craft, nor +can one who is in nowise singular and reserved or whatever +you may be pleased to call it, be better than the ordinary and +vulgar talents which are to be found without a lantern in the +market-places of the world...."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Here Michael ceased speaking, and a little while afterwards +the Marchioness said:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page278">[pg 278]</span><a name="Pg278" id="Pg278" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>"If those friends of whom you are speaking had the discretion +of the friends of old, the evil would be smaller; when +Arcesilaus went one day to see Apelles, who was ill and in +need, this good friend raised his artist's head so as to arrange +the pillow and put underneath a sum of money for his cure, +which sum, having been found by the old woman attending +him, who was frightened at the amount, Apelles, smiling, +said: 'This money was stolen from Arcesilaus; do not be +astonished.'"</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Then Lactancio added, in this manner, his opinion: +"Skilful artists would not exchange places with any other +kind of men however great they may be, so satisfied are they +with some special joyousness which they get from their art; +but I would counsel them to exchange at least with the +happy ones, if it seemed to me that they wished to do so, and +were it not that they consider themselves the most happy of +mortals. The mind which is capable of the very highest +painting knows where the lives and pleasures of the pre-sumptuous +lead them and what they are, and how they die +nameless and without knowledge of the things which in the +world are most worthy of being known and esteemed, and +how we cannot even remember that such a man was born +however much money he may have kept in his coffers. +And thus he understands that good work and the good +name of immortal virtue is the felicity of this life and all or +almost all that is to be desired; and therefore he esteems +himself more because he is on the road to attain that glory +than one who does not know this and never even knew how +to desire it. Many are content with much less power than that +of imitating a work of God as in painting; and if one never +attained to the distinction of governing a great province, it +is but human to be satisfied with things which are more +difficult and more uncertain than governing a country which +stretched from the Columns of Hercules to the Indian River +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page279">[pg 279]</span><a name="Pg279" id="Pg279" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Ganges. Such an one never killed an enemy more difficult +to conquer than is the conforming the work to the desire or +idea of the great painter, and the one was never so satisfied +drinking out of a golden cup as the other drinking out of an +earthen pot. Nor was the Emperor Maximilian wrong in +saying that he could indeed make a duke or a count, but +as for an excellent painter God alone could make him when +He so pleased, for which reason he abstained from putting to +death a painter who deserved to die."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"What do you advise me to do, Master Lactancio," the +Marchioness then said; "shall I put a question to M. Angelo +about painting, as he now, in order to prove to me that +great men are justified in their ways and not eccentric, may +take measures like those he is accustomed to take?"</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And Lactancio: "For your Excellency, Madam, M. Michael +cannot help constraining himself and giving out here that +which it is well that he keeps close elsewhere."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">M. Angelo said: "I beg of your Excellency to tell me what +I can give to her and it shall be given."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And she, smiling: "I very much wish to know, as we are +dealing with this subject, what you think of the painting of +Flanders and whom it will satisfy, because it appears to me +more devout than the Italian style."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"The painting of Flanders, Madam," answered the artist +slowly, "will generally satisfy any devout person more than +the painting of Italy, which will never cause him to drop a +single tear, but that of Flanders will cause him to shed many; +this is not owing to the vigour and goodness of that painting, +but to the goodness of such devout person; women will like +it, especially very old ones, or very young ones. It will +please likewise friars and nuns, and also some noble persons +who have no ear for true harmony. They paint in Flanders, +only to deceive the external eye, things that gladden you and +of which you cannot speak ill, and saints and prophets. +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page280">[pg 280]</span><a name="Pg280" id="Pg280" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Their painting is of stuffs, bricks and mortar, the grass of the +fields, the shadows of trees, and bridges and rivers, which +they call landscapes, and little figures here and there; and +all this, although it may appear good to some eyes, is in truth +done without reasonableness or art, without symmetry or proportion, +without care in selecting or rejecting, and finally +without any substance or verve, and in spite of all this, +painting in some other parts is worse than it is in Flanders. +Neither do I speak so badly of Flemish painting because it is +all bad, but because it tries to do so many things at once (each +of which alone would suffice for a great work) so that it does +not do anything really well.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"Only works which are done in Italy can be called true +painting, and therefore we call good painting Italian, for if it +were done so well in another country, we should give it the +name of that country or province. As for the good painting +of this country, there is nothing more noble or devout, for +with wise persons nothing causes devotion to be remembered, +or to arise, more than the difficulty of the perfection which +unites itself with and joins God; because good painting is +nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a +reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting is a music +and a melody which intellect only can appreciate, and with +great difficulty. This painting is so rare that few are capable of +doing or attaining to it. And I further say (which whoever +notes it will consider important) that of all the climates +or countries lighted by the sun and the moon, in no other +can one paint well but in the kingdom of Italy; and it is a +thing which is nearly impossible to do well except here, even +though there were more talented men in the other provinces, +if there could be such, and this for reasons which we will +give you. Take a great man from another kingdom, and +tell him to paint whatever he likes and can do best, and let +him do it; and take a bad Italian apprentice and order +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page281">[pg 281]</span><a name="Pg281" id="Pg281" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>him to make a drawing, or to paint whatever you like, and +let him do it; you will find, if you understand it well, that +the drawing of that apprentice, as regards art, has more +substance than that of the other master, and what he +attempted to do is worth more than everything that the +other ever did. Order a great master, who is not an +Italian, even though it be Alberto,<a id="noteref_188" name="noteref_188" href="#note_188"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">188</span></span></a> a man delicate in his +manner, in order to deceive me, or Francisco d'Ollanda +there, to counterfeit a work which shall be like an Italian +work, and if it cannot be a very good one let it be an ordinary +or a bad painting, and I assure you that it will be +immediately recognised that the work was not done in Italy, +nor by the hand of an Italian. I likewise affirm that no +nation or people (I except one or two Spaniards) can perfectly +satisfy or imitate the Italian manner of painting (which is the +old Greek manner) without his being immediately recognised +as a foreigner, whatever efforts he may make, and however +hard he may work to do so. And if by some great miracle +such a foreigner should succeed in painting well, then, +although he may not have done it in order to imitate Italian +work, it will be said that he painted like an Italian. Thus +it is that all painting done in Italy is not called Italian +painting, but all that is good and direct is, for in this country +works of illustrious painting are done in a more masterly +and more serious manner than in any other place. We call +good painting <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Italian</span></span>, which painting, even though it be done +in Flanders or in Spain (which approaches us most) if it be +good, will be Italian painting, for this most noble science +does not belong to any country, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">as it came from heaven</span></span>; but +even from ancient times it remained in our Italy more than +in any other kingdom in the world, and I think that it will +end in it."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">So he spoke. Seeing that Michael was now silent, I urged +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page282">[pg 282]</span><a name="Pg282" id="Pg282" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>him on in this manner. "So, Master Michael Angelo, you +assert that out of all the nations of the world it is only +Italians who can paint? (Ollanda continues.)</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"But what wonder in that? You must know that in Italy +painting is done well for many reasons, and outside Italy +painting is done badly for many reasons. Firstly, the nature +of the Italians is studious in the extreme, and the talented +already bring with them, when they are born, power of work, +taste and love of that to which they are inclined, and of that +which demands their genius; and if any one determines to +make a profession, and to pursue some art or liberal science, +he does not content himself with what is sufficient for him to +become rich thereby, and one of the number of the craftsmen, +but in order to be unique and distinguished he watches and +works continuously, and keeps before his eyes the great hope +of being a paragon of perfection (I speak where I know I am +believed) and not a mere mediocrity in that art or science. +This is because Italy does not esteem mediocrity, deeming it +an exceedingly poor thing; and speaks only of those, and +even praises them to the skies, who, like <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">eagles</span></span>, surpass all +others, and penetrating the clouds approach the light of the +sun. Then, again, you are born in a province (is not this an +advantage?) which is the mother and protectress of all +sciences and disciplines, amongst so many relics of your +ancestors, which do not exist anywhere else, that already as +children you find before your eyes in the streets a great part +of whatever your inclination or genius may be inclined to; +and from youth upwards you are accustomed to see those +things which old men never saw in other kingdoms. Then, +growing up, although you may have been rude and rough, by +nature you are already so accustomed to have your eyes full of +the forms of the many old things of renown, that you cannot +fail to imitate them; and to all this are joined (as I say) +distinguished talent and indefatigable study and taste. You +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page283">[pg 283]</span><a name="Pg283" id="Pg283" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>have remarkable masters to imitate, and their works, and as +regards new works the cities are full of the curious things and +novelties which are discovered and found every day. And if +all these things do not suffice, although I should consider +them quite sufficient for the perfection of any science, at +least this is quite enough; namely, that we, Portuguese, +although some of us may be born with nice talent and minds—as +many are born—have a contempt for and consider it +fine to take little account of the arts, and we almost feel it a +disgrace to know much about them, wherefore we always +leave them imperfect and unfinished. You Italians alone, (I +cannot even say Germans or Frenchmen), give the greatest +honour, the greatest nobility and the power to be more, to a +man who is a splendid painter or splendid in some faculty; +and of all your noblemen, captains, wise men, satirists, cardinals +and Popes, that man only who may attain the reputation +of being perfect and rare in his profession is ever exalted +or thought much of by you. And as great princes are not +esteemed nor have any name in Italy, so it is a painter alone +that they call the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">divine</span></span>—Michael Angelo, as you will find in +letters which Aretino, satirist of all Christian gentlemen, +wrote you. Now, the payments and prices that in Italy are +given for paintings also appear to me to have a great deal to +do with the fact that painting cannot be done anywhere but +here, because frequently for a head or face from nature one +thousand 'cruzados' are paid, and many other works are +paid for as you, gentlemen, know better than I, very differently +from the way they are paid for in other kingdoms, seeing +that mine is among the magnificent and wide. Now, your +Excellency, please to judge whether these be hindrances or +helps."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"It seems to me," answered the Marchioness, "that before +these hindrances you must place talent and knowledge, which +are not transalpine but belong to the good Italian; however, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page284">[pg 284]</span><a name="Pg284" id="Pg284" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>everywhere virtue is the same, good is the same, and evil is +the same, although they may have a different civilisation from +ours."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"If that," I answered, "were heard in my country, well, +Madam, they would be astonished both at your Excellency +praising me and in that manner, and by your making that difference +between Italians and other men whom you call 'transalpine,' +or from beyond the mountains:</p> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">'Non adeo obtusa gestamos pectora Poeni,</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Nec tam auersus equos, Lysia, sol iungit ab urbe.'</div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"We have, Madam, in Portugal, good and ancient cities, +and principally my birthplace, Lisbon; we have good manners, +and good courtiers and valiant cavaliers and courageous +princes, both in war and in peace, and above all we have a very +powerful and splendid king, who with great calmness tempers +and governs us, and commands very distant provinces of barbarians, +whom he has converted to the Faith; and he is feared +by the whole East and by the whole of Mauritania and is a +patron of the Fine Arts, so much so that, through making a +mistake as to my talent, which in my youth promised some +fruit, he sent me to see Italy and its civilisation, and Master +Michael Angelo, whom I see here. It is quite true that we +have not such buildings and pictures as you have, but they are +already being made, and little by little they are losing that +barbarian superfluity that the Goths and Moors sowed throughout +Spain. I also hope that, on arriving in Portugal after +leaving here, I may assist either in the elegance of building +or in the nobility of painting, so that we may be able to +compete with you. Our science is almost entirely lost, and +without honour or renown in those kingdoms, and not through +the fault of others, but through the fault of the place and +disusage, to such extent that very few esteem it or understand +it unless it be our most serene king, by supporting all virtue +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page285">[pg 285]</span><a name="Pg285" id="Pg285" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>and patronising it; and likewise the most serene infante D. +Luiz, his brother, a very valorous and wise prince, who has a +very nice knowledge and discretion in every liberal art. All +the others neither understand nor esteem painting."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"They do well," said M. Angelo.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But Master Lactancio Tolomei, who had not spoken for +some time, proceeded in this manner:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"We Italians have this very great advantage over all other +nations in this great world, in the knowledge and honour of +all the illustrious and most worthy arts and sciences. But I +would have you to know, M. Francisco d'Ollanda, that whoever +does not understand and esteem the most noble art of +painting does so because of his own defects and not because +of the art, which is very noble and clear; and because he is +a barbarian and without judgment, and has no honourable part +in being a man. And this is proved by the example of the +most powerful old and modern emperors and kings, and of the +philosophers and wise persons who attained everything, and +who so greatly esteemed and appreciated the knowledge of +painting, and spoke of it with such high praises and examples, +and in making use of it and paying for it so liberally and magnificently +and, finally, by the great honour that the Mother +Church does it, with the holy Pontiffs, cardinals, and great +princes and prelates. And so you will find in all the past centuries, +all the past valorous peoples and nations held this art in +so much honour, that they admired nothing more nor considered +anything as a greater wonder. And then we see +Alexander the Great, Demetrius, and Ptolomy, famous kings, +together with many other princes, who readily boast of understanding +it; and amongst the Cæsars, Augustus the divine +Cæsar, Octavian Augustus, M. Agrippa, Claudius, and Caligula +and Nero, in this alone virtuous, likewise Vespasian and Titus, +as was shown in the famous retable of the Temple of Peace, +which he built after having vanquished the Jews and their +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page286">[pg 286]</span><a name="Pg286" id="Pg286" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Jerusalem. What shall I say of the great Emperor Trajan? +What of Helius Adrianus, who with his own hand painted +singularly well, as the Greek Dion writes in his life, and Spartianus? +Then the divine Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Julius +Capitolinus, says how he learned to paint, Diognetus being +his teacher; and even Ælius Lampridius relates that the +Emperor Severus Alexander, who was an exceedingly powerful +prince, himself painted his genealogy to show that he descended +from the lineage of the Metelos. Of the great +Pompey, Plutarch says that in the city of Mitylene he drew +with a style the plan and shape of the theatre, in order to +have it afterwards built in Rome, which he did.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"And although, owing to its great effects and beauties, noble +painting merits all veneration without seeking praise from +other virtues, beside those proper to it, I still wished to show +here, before one who knows it, by what sort of men it was +esteemed. And if by chance, at any time or in any place, +there should be found any one who, because of being highly +placed and great, refuses to esteem this art, let him know +that others still greater appreciated it greatly. Who can compare +himself with Alexander the Greek? Who will exceed +the prowess of Cæsar the Roman? Who is of greater glory +than Pompey? Who more a prince than Trajan? For these +Alexanders and Cæsars not only dearly loved the divine +painting, and paid great prices for it, but with their own +hands they occupied themselves with it and touched it. Or +who, out of bravery and presumption, will despise it and be +not rather very humble and very unworthy before painting, +before her severe and grave face?"</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Thus it seemed that Lactancio was finishing, when the +Marchioness proceeded, saying:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"Or who will be the virtuous and serene man (if he despises +it for its sanctity) who will not show great reverence and +adore the spiritual contemplation and devotion of holy +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page287">[pg 287]</span><a name="Pg287" id="Pg287" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>painting? I think that time would sooner be lacking than +material for the praises of this virtue. It produces joy in +the melancholy, it brings both the contented and the +angry man to the knowledge of human misery; it moves +the obstinate to compunction, the mundane to penitence, +the contemplative to contemplation, and the fearful to +shame. It shows us death and what we are, more gently +than in any other way; the torments and dangers of hell; +so far as is possible, it represents to us the glory and peace +of the blessed, and the incomprehensible image of our +Lord God. It represents to us the modesty of His saints, +the constancy of the martyrs, the purity of the virgins, the +beauty of the angels, and the love and ardour with which +the seraphim burn, better than in any other way, and lifts +up our spirit and plunges our mind into the depths beyond +the stars, to imagine the empirean that there exists. What +shall I say of how it brings before us the worthies who passed +away so long ago, and whose bones even are not now upon +this earth, to enable us to imitate them in their bright deeds? +Or how it shows us their councils and battles by examples +and delightful histories? Their great deeds, their piety and +their manners? To captains it shows the manoeuvres of the +old armies, the cohorts and their disposition, their discipline +and their military order. It animates and creates daring, by +emulation and an honest envy of the famous ones, as Scipio +the African confessed.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"It leaves a memorial of the present times for those who +come after. Painting shows us the garb of the pilgrim or of +antiquity, the variety of foreign peoples and nations, buildings, +animals, and monsters, which in writing it would be +prolix to hear about, and even then it would be but badly +understood. And not only these things does this noble art, +but it places before our eyes the image of any great man +who should be seen and known because of his deeds, and +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page288">[pg 288]</span><a name="Pg288" id="Pg288" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>likewise the beauty of a woman who is separated from us by +many leagues, a thing on which Pliny reflects much. To one +who dies it gives many years of life, his own face remaining +behind painted, and his wife is consoled, seeing daily before +her the image of her deceased husband, and the sons who +were left little children rejoice when men to know the +presence and the aspect of their dear father, and fear to +shame him."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As the Marchioness, almost weeping, made a pause here, +M. Lactancio, in order to draw her out of her sorrowful +imagination and memories, said:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"Besides all these things, which are great, what is there +that more ennobles or makes other things more beautiful +than painting, whether on arms, in temples, in palaces, or +fortresses, or anywhere else where beauty and order may +have a place? And so great minds assert that there is +nothing a man can find to fight against his mortality or +against the flight of time but painting only. Nor did Pithagoras +depart from this view when he said that only in three +things were men similar to the immortal God: in science, +in painting, and in music."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Here Master Michael said:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"I am sure that if in your Portugal, M. Francisco, they +were to see the beauty of the painting that is in some houses +in Italy, they could not be so uncultured as not to esteem it +greatly, and wish to attain to it; but it is not surprising that +they do not know or appreciate what they have never seen and +what they do not possess." Here M. Angelo rose, showing +that it was already time for him to retire and go; and likewise +the Marchioness rose; I asked her as a favour to invite +all that distinguished company for the following day in that +same place, and that M. Angelo should not fail to appear. +She did so, and he promised that he would come. And the +Marchioness going with the rest, M. Lactancio left with +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page289">[pg 289]</span><a name="Pg289" id="Pg289" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Michael, and I and Diogo Zapata, a Spaniard, went with the +Marchioness from the monastery of St. Silvester at Monte +Cavallo to the other monastery where there is the head of +St. John the Baptist, and where the Marchioness resides, +and we left her with the mothers and nuns, and I went to +my residence.</p> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc107" id="toc107"></a><a name="pdf108" id="pdf108"></a> +<h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">SECOND DIALOGUE</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">All that night I thought of the past day, and was preparing +myself for the one to come; but it frequently happens that +our arrangements prove uncertain and vain, and very contrary +to what we expect, as I then learnt. On the following day +M. Lactancio sent me word that we could not meet as we had +arranged, owing to certain business matters which had cropped +up both for the Lady Marchioness and likewise for Michael +Angelo himself, but he asked me to be at St. Silvester's in +eight days' time, as that day had been agreed upon.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I found those eight days long, but finally, when Sunday +came, the time appeared to me to have been but short, for I +should have liked to have been better armed with knowledge +for such a noble company. When I arrived at St. Silvester +the lesson from the Epistles which Friar Ambrose read was +finished and he was gone, and they were beginning to complain +of my being late and about me.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After they had pardoned me, I having confessed to being a +laggard, and after the Marchioness had bantered me a little, +and I Messer Angelo in my turn, I obtained permission to +proceed with the former conversation about painting; I +commenced saying:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"I think, Senhor Michael Angelo, that last Sunday, when we +were about to part, you told me that if in the kingdom of +Portugal, which you here call Spain, they were to see the noble +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page290">[pg 290]</span><a name="Pg290" id="Pg290" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>pictures of Italy, they would esteem them greatly, for which +reason I beg as a favour (for I have come here for nothing else) +that you will not disdain to inform me what famous works in +painting there are in Italy, so that I may know how many I +have already seen, and how many I still have to see."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"You ask me a question which would take long to answer, +M. Francisco," said M. Angelo, "wide and difficult to put +together, for we know that there is no prince or private person +or nobleman in Italy, or any one of any pretension, however +little curious he may be about painting (to say nothing of those +excellent ones who adore it), who does not take steps to have +some relic of divine painting, or who at least, in so far as he +can, does not order many works to be executed. So that a +good portion of the beauty of our art is spread over many +noble cities, castles, country-seats, palaces and temples, and +other private and public buildings; but as I have not seen +them all in an orderly manner, I can only speak of some +which are the principal ones.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"In Siena there is some singular painting in the Municipal +Chamber and in other places; in Florence, my native place, in +the Palaces of the Medici, there is a grotesque by Giovanni +da Udine, and so throughout Tuscany. In Urbino, the Palace +of the Duke, who was himself half a painter, has a great +deal of praiseworthy work, and also in his country-seat called +'Imperial,' near Pesaro, erected by his wife, there is some +very magnificent painting. So, too, the Palace of the Duke +of Mantua, where Andrea painted the Triumph of Caius +Cæsar, is noble; but more so still is the work of the +Stable, painted by Julius, a pupil of Raphael, who now flourishes +in Mantua. In Ferrara we have the painting of Dosso +in the Palace of Castello, and in Padua they also praise the +loggia of M. Luis, and the Fortress of Lenhago. Now in +Venice there are admirable works by Chevalier Titian, a +valiant man in painting and in drawing from nature, in the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page291">[pg 291]</span><a name="Pg291" id="Pg291" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Library of St. Mark, some in the House of the Germans, +and others in churches and in other good hands; and the +whole of that city is a good painting.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"So in Pisa, in Lucca, in Bologna, in Piacenza, in Parma, +where there is the Parmesano,<a id="noteref_189" name="noteref_189" href="#note_189"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">189</span></span></a> in Milan, and in Naples. So +in Genoa there is the house of Prince Doria, painted by Master +Perino, with great judgment, especially the Storm of the +Vessels of Æneas, in oils, and the ferocity of Neptune and his +sea-horses; and likewise in another room there is a fresco, +Jupiter fighting against the giants in Phlegra, overthrowing +them with thunderbolts; and nearly the whole city is +painted inside and out. And in many other castles and +cities of Italy, such as Orvieto, Esi,<a id="noteref_190" name="noteref_190" href="#note_190"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">190</span></span></a> Ascoli, and Como, there +are pictures nobly painted, and all of great price, for I only +speak of such; and if we were to speak of the private paintings +and pictures that every one holds dearer than life, it would +be to speak of the innumerable, and there are to be found in +Italy some cities which are nearly all painted with tolerable +painting, inside and out."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It seemed that Michael was coming to a conclusion, when +the Lady Marchioness, looking at me, said:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"Do you not remark, M. Francisco, that M. Michael +abstained from speaking of Rome, the mother of painting, so +as not to talk of his own works? Now what he would not do, +let us not fail to do for the purpose of ensnaring him the more, +for when one deals with famous paintings, no other has such +value as the fount from which they are derived and proceed. +And this work is in the head and fount of the Church, I +mean in St. Peter's in Rome; a great vault, in fresco, with its +circuit and curvatures of arches, and a façade, in which M. +Angelo divinely made us understand and divided into +histories how God first created the world, with many images +of Sibyls and figures of exceedingly great artistic beauty +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page292">[pg 292]</span><a name="Pg292" id="Pg292" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>and artifice. And what is singular is, that doing nothing +more than this work, which as yet he has not completed, and +having commenced it when a youth, there is therein comprised +the work of twenty painters united in that vault alone. +Raphael of Urbino painted in this city a second work of such +art that it would have been the first if the other had not +existed. It is a hall and two chambers and a loggia in fresco, +in the palaces of the said St. Peter, a magnificent thing +of many elegant stories of a very decorous description. And +the story of Apollo playing his harp amongst the nine muses +in the Parnasus is singular. In the house<a id="noteref_191" name="noteref_191" href="#note_191"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">191</span></span></a> of Augustimguis +(Chigi) Raphael has painted very preciously a poetry, the +story of Psyche, and very gracefully he surrounded Galatea +by mermen in the middle of the waves and by cupids in the +air. The picture in S. Pietro in Montorio of the Transfiguration +of our Lord,<a id="noteref_192" name="noteref_192" href="#note_192"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">192</span></span></a> in oils, is very good, and another in Aracœli, +and in the Temple of Peace, in fresco.<a id="noteref_193" name="noteref_193" href="#note_193"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">193</span></span></a> The picture +in S. Pietro in Montorio by the hand of Bastiäo Veneziano<a id="noteref_194" name="noteref_194" href="#note_194"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">194</span></span></a> +is famous; he did it in competition with Raphael. There +are many facades of palaces in this city, in white and black,<a id="noteref_195" name="noteref_195" href="#note_195"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">195</span></span></a> +by Baltesar<a id="noteref_196" name="noteref_196" href="#note_196"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">196</span></span></a> di Siena, architect, and by Marturino and by +Polidoro, a man who in that manner of working magnificently +enriched Rome. Further, there are here many palaces of +Cardinals and other men painted in grotesque and in stucco +and with many other varieties of art, for the city is more +painted than any other in the whole world, apart from the +private pictures that every one holds dearer than life itself. +But of the things outside the city, the Vigna, begun by Pope +Clement VII., at the foot of Monte Mario, is most worth seeing; +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page293">[pg 293]</span><a name="Pg293" id="Pg293" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>it is ornamented by the fine painting and sculpture of Raphael +and Julius, where the giant lies sleeping, whose feet the satyrs +are measuring with shepherds' crooks. You now see whether +these are works which would lead us to be silent about our +city."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And she was already ceasing to speak, when I remembered +me, and said:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"No doubt your Excellency also forgot the famous tomb or +chapel of the Medici in San Lorenzo, at Florence, painted in +marble by M. Angelo, with such a generous number of statues +in full relief that it can certainly compete with any of the +great works of antiquity; where the goddess or image of +Night, sleeping above the nocturnal bird, and the melancholy +Death in Life pleased me the most, although there are +there many noble sculptures around the Dawn. But I cannot +omit the mention of a painting which I saw, even though it +was outside Italy, in France or Provence, in the City of +Avignon, in a Franciscan monastery: it is that of a dead +woman who had been very beautiful, she was called the +Beautiful Anna; a king of France who liked painting and +who painted (if I am not mistaken) called Reynel, came to +Avignon and inquired whether the Beautiful Anna was there +because he greatly desired to see her to paint her from life, +and having been told that she had died shortly before, the +king caused her to be disinterred to see whether still in her +bones there were some traces of her beauty. He found her +clothed, in the old style, as if she were alive, with her golden +hair dressed on her head, but all the gay beauty of the face, +which alone was uncovered, had changed into a skull; notwithstanding +this, the painter king considered it so beautiful +that he painted her from nature, surrounding his work with +verses which mourn and are still mourning for her. Which +work I saw in that place and I thought it very worthy."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">All were pleased with my picture, and M. Angelo added +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page294">[pg 294]</span><a name="Pg294" id="Pg294" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>that in Narbonne I would have also seen the picture +St. Sebastian in the Cathedral, and he said:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"In France there is some good painting, and the King of +France has many palaces and pleasure houses with innumerable +paintings, both in Fontainebleau, where the king kept +together two hundred painters, well paid, for a certain time; +and in Madrid, the pleasure house which he built, where +he voluntarily imprisons himself at times, in memory of +Madrid in Spain where he was a prisoner."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"I think," said M. Lactancio, "that I heard a while ago +Francisco d'Ollanda name amongst paintings the tomb that +you, Senhor Michael, sculptured in marble; but I do not +understand how sculpture can be called painting."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Then I began to laugh heartily, and begging permission of +the Master, said:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"To save Senhor Michael trouble I will reply to Senhor +Lactancio concerning this doubt of his, which has followed me +here from my own country.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"As you will find that all the employments which have +most art and reasonableness and grace are those which most +nearly approach the drawing or painting, so those which most +nearly approach it proceed from it and are a part or member of +it, such as sculpture or statuary, which is nothing else but +painting itself, although it may well appear to some to be a +separate art; it is, however, condemned to serve painting, its +mistress.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"And this I will give as a sufficient proof (as your Excellencies +well know), that in the books we find Phidias and +Praxiteles called painters, whilst it is certain that they were +sculptors in marble, seeing that the statues from their hands +in stone are here near us, on this hill, the horses which they +made, which King Teridade sent to Nero as a present, for +which reason in recent times this place is called Monte +Cavallo. And should this not be enough, I will add how +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page295">[pg 295]</span><a name="Pg295" id="Pg295" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Donatello (who, with the permission of Master Michael, was +one of the first modern ones who in sculpture merited fame +and name in Italy) never said anything else to his pupils, +when teaching them, but draw, telling them in a single word +of doctrine: 'Pupils, I give you the whole art of sculpture +when I tell you—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">draw!</span></span>' And so Pomponio Gaurico, sculptor, +also affirms in the book he wrote 'De Re Statuaria.' But +why do I seek examples and proofs afar, when perchance +they are near me? And so as not to speak of myself, I say +the great draughtsman, M. Angelo, who is here, also sculptures +in marble, which is not his art, and better even (if one +may say it) than he paints with the brush on a panel, and he +himself has told me sometimes that he finds the sculpture of +stone less difficult than the using of colours, and that he +deems it to be a very much greater thing to make a masterly +stroke with the brush than with the chisel. And even a +famous draughtsman, if he so desires, will by himself sculpture +and carve in hard marble, in bronze and in silver, exceedingly +large statues in full relief (which is a great thing), without +ever having taken a chisel in his hand; and this is owing to the +great virtue and power of drawing. It does not, therefore, +follow that a sculptor will know how to paint or how to hold a +brush, nor will he know how to paint and make a stroke like +a master, as I learnt a few days ago on going to see Baccio +Blandino,<a id="noteref_197" name="noteref_197" href="#note_197"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">197</span></span></a> the sculptor, whom I found trying to paint in oils +and unable to do so. The draughtsman will be a master in +building palaces or temples, and will carve statues and will +paint pictures; for the said Master Michael and Raphael and +Baltesar di Siena,<a id="noteref_198" name="noteref_198" href="#note_198"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">198</span></span></a> famous painters, taught architecture and +sculpture, and Baltesar di Siena, after briefly studying that +art, equalled Bramante, a most eminent architect, who passed +all his life in its discipline, and yet he used to say that +it gave him an advantage, for he appreciated the invention, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page296">[pg 296]</span><a name="Pg296" id="Pg296" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>fancy and freedom of drawing. I am speaking of true +painters."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"But I say, Senhor Lactancio," said Michael, assisting +M. Francisco, "that the painter of whom he speaks not only +will be instructed in liberal arts and other sciences such as +architecture and sculpture, which are his own province, but +also in all other manual crafts which are practised throughout +the world; should he wish, he will do them with more art +than the actual masters of them. However that may be, I +sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find +amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing +or painting, all others being members proceeding therefrom; +for if you carefully consider all that is being done in +this life you will find that each person is, without knowing it, +painting this world, creating and producing new forms and +figures here, in dress and the various garbs, in building and +occupying spaces with painted buildings and houses, in cultivating +the fields and ploughing the land into pictures and +sketches, in navigating the seas with sails, in fighting and +dividing the spoil, and finally in the 'firmamentos' and +burials and in all other operations, movements and actions. +I leave out all the handicrafts and arts, of which painting is +the principal fount, of which some are rivers which spring +from it, such as sculpture and architecture; some are brooks, +such as mechanical trades; and some are stagnant ponds, +which do not flow (such as useless handicrafts like cutting out +with scissors and such like), formed from the waters of the +flood when drawing overflowed its banks in old time and +inundated everything under its dominion and empire, as one +sees in the works of the Romans, all done in the manner of +painting. In all their painted buildings and fabrics, in all +works in gold, silver, or in metals, in all their vases and +ornaments, and even in the elegance of their coins, and in +their dress and armour, in their triumphs as well as in all +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page297">[pg 297]</span><a name="Pg297" id="Pg297" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>their other operations and works, one easily recognises how, +in the time when they held sway over all the earth, my lady +painting was the universal sovereign and mistress of all their +deeds and trades and sciences, extending herself even to +writing, and composing or writing histories. So that whosoever +well considers and understands human works, will find +without doubt that they are all either painting itself or some +part of painting; and although the painter be capable of +inventing what has not as yet been found, and of doing all +the handicrafts of the others with much more grace and +elegance than their own professors, yet no one but he can be +a true painter or draughtsman."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"I am satisfied," answered Lactancio, "and understand +better the great power of painting, which, as you stated, is +seen in all things of the ancients and even in writing and +composing. And perhaps notwithstanding your great imagination +you will not have been as much struck as I have +been with the conformity which letters have with painting +(for you will certainly hold letters to be a part of painting); +nor by how these two sciences are such legitimate sisters that, +if one be separated from the other, neither is perfect, although +it seems that these present times keep them in some way +separated. But yet every learned and consummate man will +find that in all his works he is always exercising to a great +extent the office of a good painter, painting and colouring +some intention of his with much care and devotion. Now in +opening the old books, the famous ones are few which are +not like painting; and it is certain that those which are the +heaviest and most confused are so for no other reason but +because the writers are not good draughtsmen and are not +very skilful in drawing and dividing up their work; and the +most facile and terse are those of the best draughtsman. +And even Quintilian in the perfection of his <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Rhetoric</span></span> lays it +down that not only in the division of the words his orator +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page298">[pg 298]</span><a name="Pg298" id="Pg298" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>should draw, but that with his own hand he should know how +to sketch and draw; and hence it is, Senhor M. Angelo, that +you may at times call a great man of letters or a great +preacher a good painter; and a great draughtsman you may +call a man of letters, and whosoever most penetrates into real +antiquity will find that painting and sculpture were both +called painting, and that in the time of Demosthenes they +called <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">writing</span></span> 'antigraphia,' which means <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">drawing</span></span>, and it was +a word common to both these sciences, and that the writings +of Agatharco can be called the painting of Agatharco. And +I think that the Egyptians also—all of them who had to +write or express anything—were accustomed to know how to +paint, and even their hieroglyphic signs were painted animals +and birds, as is shown by some obelisks in this city which came +from Egypt. But if I speak of poetry, it seems to me that it +will not be very difficult for me to show how true a sister she +is to painting. But so that Senhor Francisco may know how +much necessity he has for poetry, and how much he may +gain from the best of it, I will show him here how much care +the poets take (although this is matter for a young man +rather than for me) of their profession and intelligence, and +how much they praise and celebrate their art as being free +from penalties and blots; and it does not seem that the poets +worked for anything except to teach the beauties of painting, +and what ought to be avoided or done in it, with all their +suavity and music of verses, and with so many just and fluent +words that I do not know how I can repay them. Now one +of the things in which they put the most study and work (I +speak of the famous poets) is in painting well or in imitating +a good painting; and this is due to the accuracy which, with +the greatest promptness and care, they desire to express and +attain. And the one who can attain this is the one who is +the most excellent and clear. I remember that the prince of +them, Virgil, threw himself down to sleep at the foot of a +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page299">[pg 299]</span><a name="Pg299" id="Pg299" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>beech-tree, and how he has painted in words the forms of +two vases that Alcimedon had made in a cavern covered +with a wild vine, with some goats chewing willows, and some +blue hills smoking in the distance; then he remains resting +on one hand the whole day, to study how many winds and +clouds he will put into the Tempest of Æolus, and how he +will paint the Port of Carthage in a bay, with an island +standing apart, and with how many rocks and woods he will +surround it. Afterwards he paints Troy burning; then some +feasts in Sicily, and beyond near Cumas the gate of hell +with a thousand monsters, and chimeras, and many souls +passing Acheron; then the Elysian Fields, the host of the +Blest, the pains and torments of the Impious, and afterwards +the Arms of Vulcan, a fine piece of work; shortly +afterwards a painted Amazon, and the ferocity of capless +Turnus. He paints the routs in battle, the many dead, the +fates of noble men, the many spoils and trophies. Read the +whole of Virgil and you will not find in it anything but the +handicraft of a Michael Angelo. Lucan employs a hundred +pages in painting an enchantress and the breaking up of a +fine battle. Ovid is nothing else but a 'retavolo' (copyist). +Statius paints the house of sleep and the walls of great Thebes. +The poet Lucretius likewise paints, and Tibullus and Catullus +and Propertius. One paints a fountain, and a wood close by, +with Pan, the shepherd, playing a flute amongst the ewes. +Another paints a shrine with nymphs around dancing. +Another draws the drunken Bacchus, surrounded by wild +women, with old Silenus, half falling from an ass, who would +have fallen were he not held up by a satyr who carries a leathern +bottle. Even the satirical poet paints the picture of the labyrinth. +Now what do the lyric poets do, or the wits of Martial, or the +tragic or comic ones? What do they do but paint reasonably? +And what I say I do not invent, for each one of them himself +confesses that he paints: they called painting dumb poetry."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page300">[pg 300]</span><a name="Pg300" id="Pg300" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>At this point I said: "Senhor Lactancio, in calling painting +<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">dumb</span></span> poetry it seems to me that the poets did not know +how to paint well, because, if they understood how much +more painting declares and speaks than poetry, her sister, +they would not say it was dumb, and I will maintain rather +that poetry is the more dumb."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Marchioness said: "How will you prove, Spaniard, +what you say? how will you prove that painting is not dumb +and that poetry is? Let us hear, for in no more worthy discourse +could this day be spent, hearing what you maintain on +that subject; afterwards it may be possible to bring this company +together again, in another place."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"How can your Excellency wish," I answered, "that I +should dare to do so at once, and how should I be able to +interest this company with my little knowledge, especially as +I am a pupil of the lady who is dumb and has no tongue? +Particularly, too, as it is already late, if the light through +these windows does not deceive me; how can you order me +to praise my innamorata before her own husband and in such +an honourable court of those who know her worth? If there +were some powerful adversaries here I might attempt it, +although in this I am wrong, for it would be much easier to +vanquish enemies than to please these friends. But if your +Excellency desires so much to see me put to silence I will +speak, not as an enemy of poetry, for I am much indebted to +her, and I owe her much in the virtue of my profession, and +in the perfection which I so much desire, but to defend the +other lady, who is still more mine, for whose sake only I +rejoice to live, and for whom I confess I have a voice and +speak, she being dumb, solely because I one day saw her +move her eyes; and as she teaches one to speak by her eyes, +what would she do if she were to move her wise lips? Good +poets (as Senhor Lactancio said) do not do more with words +than even mediocre painters do with their works, for the +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page301">[pg 301]</span><a name="Pg301" id="Pg301" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>former recount what the latter express and declare. They +with fastidious meanings do not always engage one's ears, +whilst the latter satisfy one's eyes, as with some beautiful +spectacle they hold all men prisoners and entranced; and the +passage over which good poets most trouble themselves, and +which they hold as the greatest finesse, is to show you in +words (perchance too many and too long), as if painting a +storm on the sea, or the burning of a city, which storm, if +they were able, they would rather paint, for when you finish +the work of reading, you have already forgotten the commencement, +and you have only present the short verse on +which your eyes were last fixed; and the one who shows you +this best is the best poet.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"Now, how much more does painting say which shows you +that storm altogether with the thunder, lightning, waves, +vessels, and reefs, and you see: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">omniaque viris ostentant praesentem +mortem</span></span>, and in the same place: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">ex-templo Aeneas tendens +ad sidera palmas</span></span> and <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">tres Eurus abreptas in saxa latentia torquet +emissamque hyemem sensit Neptunus et imis</span></span>, and likewise it shows +very present and visibly all the burning of the city, in every +part, represented and seen as if it were really true; on one side +those who run through the streets and squares, on the other +those who jump from the walls and towers; here the temples +half demolished and the reflection of the flames in the rivers, +and the surrounded shores illuminated; how Pantheus as he +runs away limping with his idols, leading his grandchild by the +hand; how the Trojan horse gives birth in the centre of a +great square to armed men; how Neptune, very wrath, throws +down the walls; how Pyrrhus beheads Priam; Æneas with his +father on his shoulders, and Ascanius and Creusa who follow +him in the darkness of night, full of fear; and all this so +present and so connected and natural that very often you are +moved to think that you are not safe before it, and you are +glad to know they are only colours and that they cannot +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page302">[pg 302]</span><a name="Pg302" id="Pg302" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>inspire or do harm. It does not show you this spread out in +words, whilst you remember only the part which is before +your eyes having already forgotten the past and not knowing +the future, and which verses only the ears of a grammarian +can understand with difficulty, but one's eyes visibly enjoy +that spectacle as being true, and one's ears seem to hear the +actual cries and clamour of the painted figures; it seems as if +you smell the smoke, you fly from the flames, you fear the +fall of the buildings; you are ready to give a hand to those +who are falling, you defend those who are fighting against +numbers; you run away with those who run away and stand +firm with the courageous. Not only the learned are satisfied, +but also the simple, the countryman, the old woman; not only +these, but also the Sarmatian stranger, the Indian, and the +Persian (who never understood the verses of Virgil, or Homer, +which are dumb to them), delight themselves with and +understand that work with great pleasure and quickness; the +barbarian ceases to be barbarian, and understands, by virtue +of the eloquent painting, that which no poetry or numbered +feet could teach him. And the law of painting says: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">in ipsa +legunt qui literas nesciunt</span></span>, and further on says: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">pro lectione pictura +est</span></span>. When Cebes, a Theban, wished to write an opinion of his +for a law of human life, he simulated and painted it on a 'panel,' +as he thought that he would express it better thus, and that +it would be more noble and more easily understood by all +men; he then desired more to know how to paint, in order +to speak, than how to write. But even, if after all this, poetry +still affirms that a Venus painted at the feet of a Jupiter does +not speak, nor Turnus painted, showing his valour before King +Latinus, even this reason cannot render learned painting +dumb so that she does not speak, and show in all things that +she is in this also the first, or perhaps the companion, of my +lady poetry. For the great painter will paint Venus weeping +at the feet of Jupiter, with all the following advantages, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page303">[pg 303]</span><a name="Pg303" id="Pg303" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>which the poet will not have: the first one is that he paints +heaven where it is supposed to be, and the person, dress, and +action or movement of Jupiter and his eagle with the +thunderbolt; and he will paint fully the luxurious beauty of +Venus, and her robe of gauzy raiment with all her graceful +movements, so elegant and light and with such skill that, +although she may not speak with her mouth, yet it appears +from her eyes, hands, and mouth that she is really speaking +(nor do you hear the soft and sweet speech of Venus, when a +croaking school-master reads the words and sayings of Venus). +She appears to be uttering all those pious sayings and complaints +which Virgil Maro writes concerning her. And also +the great painter will make even King Latinus more copious +in his work and the Councillors of the Laurentes more defined, +clearer, some with perturbed face, and others more collected +and quiet, different in appearance and physiognomy and age, +different in movements, which the poet cannot do without +too much prolixity and confusion. And even then he will +not do it; and the painter will do it so that it may be seen +with greater pleasure and move the spectator more, and likewise +he will place before your eyes the brave image of Turnus, +boastful and furious with the coward Drances, that it seems +as if you fear him yourself and that he is saying: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Larga +quidem semper, Drance, tibi copia fandi</span></span>. Therefore I with my +small talent, as a pupil of a mistress without a tongue, still +deem the power of painting to be greater than that of poetry +in making greater effects and in having more force and +vehemence whether to move mind and soul to joy and +laughter, or to sorrow and tears, with more effective eloquence. +But let the muse Calliope be the judge in this matter, for I +will be content with her judgment."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And having said that I ceased. The Marchioness honoured +me in bantering terms thus:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"You, Senhor Francisco, have done so well for your +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page304">[pg 304]</span><a name="Pg304" id="Pg304" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>innamorata, painting, that, if Master Michael does not show +just as great a sign of love for her, we may perhaps get her +to divorce him and go with you to Portugal."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And, smiling, Michael said: "He knows, Madam, that I +have already done so, and that I have already released her +entirely to him; for as I do not possess such powers as such +great love demands, he has said what he has said, as of one +who belongs to him."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"I confess," said I, "Madam, that he has released her to +me, but she does not wish to go with me, so that she still +remains at home with him; neither would I, although she is +so worthy, like to see her come to my country, for there are +but few there who know how to esteem her, and my most +serene king, unless it were in his unoccupied moments, would +not favour her, especially if there happened to be any unrest +through war, in which she is of no use; and so she would +become angry and perhaps in a fit of temper she would one +day throw herself into the ocean, which is hard by, and cause +me to sing many times the verse:</p> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Audieras: et fama fuit; sed opera tantum</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">nostra valent, Lycida, tela inter maria, quantum</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">chaonias dicunt aquila veniente columbas.</div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But if she were of use in time of war, I would desire her to +come at once."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"I quite understand," said the Marchioness, "but as now +the day is far spent, let your question be for next Sunday." +And as she said this she rose, and all of us with her, and we +went away.</p> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> +<a name="toc109" id="toc109"></a><a name="pdf110" id="pdf110"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page305">[pg 305]</span><a name="Pg305" id="Pg305" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">THIRD DIALOGUE</span></h2> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Not only were we unable to meet together on the following +Sunday with the Marchioness and M. Angelo, but even on the +next one, eight days later, we were almost prevented, and indeed +did not wish to meet, because at that time was being +celebrated in the city of Rome the feast of the twelve +triumphal cars in the Camp Nagao<a id="noteref_199" name="noteref_199" href="#note_199"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">199</span></span></a> in the ancient manner. +Starting from the Capitol with such magnificence and ancient +pomp that it seemed as if one were back in the old times of +the Emperors and the triumphs of the Romans. This feast +was celebrated on the occasion of the marriage<a id="noteref_200" name="noteref_200" href="#note_200"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">200</span></span></a> of Senhor +Ottavio,<a id="noteref_201" name="noteref_201" href="#note_201"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">201</span></span></a> son of Pedro Luiz, and grand-nephew of our Lord +Pope Paul III., to Senhora Margarida,<a id="noteref_202" name="noteref_202" href="#note_202"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">202</span></span></a> adopted daughter of +the Emperor. She had been a short time previously the wife +of Alessandro de Medici, Duke of Florence, who was killed +through treason in Florence. And now, she being a widow +and very young and beautiful, his Holiness and his Majesty +married her to Senhor Ottavio, a very young and estimable +man, consequently the city and the Court feasted them as +much as could be at night with serenades and banquets, and +the whole of Rome ablaze with lights and illuminations, especially +the Castle of St. Angelo, and every day feasts and +great expenditure. Such as the feast of Monte Trestacho, +with its twenty bulls attached to twenty carts, killed as a +public spectacle in the square of St. Peter's; and the race +which was run between buffaloes and horses along the entire +Via di Nostra Signora Transpontina to the square of the said +palace. And also those festivals which I have mentioned of +the twelve triumphal cars, gilded and ornamented with many +fine figures and very noble devices; there were Romans and +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page306">[pg 306]</span><a name="Pg306" id="Pg306" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>the heads of the districts of Rome, dressed in the old style, +with all the pomp and pride that could be desired; one hundred +sons of citizens on horseback, so brave and so bizarre +in their gallantry of painted antiquity, that in comparison +with them the velvet mantles and plumes and the infinity of +novelties and costumes in which Italy exceeds every other +province of Europe, appeared very ordinary. But when I had +seen this noble phalanx and company descending from the +Capitol with many infantry, and had viewed all the bravery of +the cars and the ediles, dressed in the old fashion, and had seen +Senhor Giulio Cesarino pass with the standard of the city of +Rome, on a horse with trappings covered with a white coat of +arms and black brocade, I at once turned my horse towards +Monte Cavallo, and thus went riding along the Thermae road +pondering over many things of the olden times, in which I +then felt myself to be more than in the present.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Then I ordered my servant to go without fail to St. Silvester +and learn whether perchance the Marchioness or Senhor +M. Angelo happened to be there. The servant was not long +in returning, telling me that Senhor M. Angelo and Senhor +Lactancio and Brother Ambrose were all together in the friar's +cell, which was itself in St. Silvester, but that no mention +whatever had been made of the Marchioness. I went on +towards St. Silvester, but the truth is that I intended to pass +before it and to return to the city, when I saw coming a certain +Çapata, a great servitor of the Marchioness, and a very honourable +person and my friend. I being on horseback and he on +foot, I was obliged to dismount; and he having told me that +he had been sent by the Marchioness, we went into St. Silvester. +As we were entering Senhores, M. Angelo and M. Lactancio +were coming out by way of the garden or court, in order +to take their siesta under the trees by the running water.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"Oh! welcome," said Senhor Lactancio, "both of you; you +could not arrive at a better moment; you have been very wise +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page307">[pg 307]</span><a name="Pg307" id="Pg307" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>to fly from the confusion in the city and take shelter in this +quiet haven."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"That is all very well," we said, "but this flattery does not +console us, nor is it sufficient to compensate us for the loss of +the absent one."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"He said that for the Marchioness," said Senhor Michael, +"and you are so far right, that if you had not come this instant +I might have gone."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Conversing thus we sat down on a stone bench in the garden +at the foot of some laurels, on which there was room for all of +us, and we were very comfortable, leaning back against the +green ivy which covered the wall, and from there we could see +a good part of the city, very graceful and full of ancient +majesty.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"Let us not lose everything," said Senhor Çapata, after +making excuses for the Marchioness; "let us get some profit +out of such a goodly assembly as we have here; please continue +the same noble discussion which you held a few days ago, on +the most noble art of painting, seeing that the Marchioness +very reluctantly commissioned me to that end, for she herself +would have liked to be present. But you must know that she +sent me here to report to her everything stored in my memory, +to relate to her everything treated of, without losing a single +point. And therefore we are bound, gentlemen, I to hear and +to be silent about what I do not understand, and you to give +me something to remember and report."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"Senhor Michael," I answered, "must fulfil the wishes of +the Marchioness when she heard me in the last discussion, and +practically promised to show me whether painting would be +entirely useless in time of war, for I remember that her Excellency +named last Sunday, in which we did not meet, for that +purpose."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Here M. Angelo laughed, and added:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"So you, M. Francisco, expect the Marchioness to have as +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page308">[pg 308]</span><a name="Pg308" id="Pg308" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>much power when absent as when present. Well, as you have +so much faith in her, I do not wish you to lose it through +me."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">All said that it would be well, and then M. Angelo began +to say:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"And what is there more profitable in the business and +undertaking of war, or what is of more use in the operations +of sieges and assaults than painting? Do you not know that +when Pope Clement and the Spaniards besieged Florence, it was +only by the work and virtue of the painter M. Angelo that +the besieged were defended a good while, not to say, the city +released, and the captains and soldiers outside were for a good +while astonished and oppressed and killed through the defences +and strongholds which I made on the tower, lining them in +one night on the outside with bags of wool and other materials, +emptying them of earth and filling them with fine powder, +with which I burnt a little the blood of the Castillians, whom +I sent through the air torn in pieces? So that I consider great +painting as not only profitable in war, but exceedingly necessary; +for the engines and instruments of war and for catapults, +rams, mantlets, testudines, and iron-shod towers and bridges, +and (as this bad and iron time does not make any use of these +arms now, but rejects them) mortars; for the shaping of +the mortars, battering-rams, strengthened cannons, and arquebuses, +and especially for the shape and proportions of all +fortresses and rocks, bastions, strongholds, fences, mines, +countermines, trenches, loop-holes, casemates; for the entrenchments +for horsemen, ravelins, gabions, battlements, for +the invention of bridges and ladders, for the emplacement of +camps, for the order of the lines, measurement of the +squadrons, for the difference and design of arms, for the +designs of the banners and standards, for the devices on the +shields and helmets, and also for new coats of arms, crests +and medals which are given on the field to those who show +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page309">[pg 309]</span><a name="Pg309" id="Pg309" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>great prowess, for the painting of trappings (I mean, the giving +of instruction to other lesser painters as to how they ought +to be painted, and seeing that the excellent painters can +paint the trappings of the horses and the shields and even +the tents for valorous princes); for the manner of dividing +and selecting everything; for the description and assortment +of the colours and liveries, which but few can determine. +Moreover, drawing is of exceedingly great use in war to show +in sketches the position of distant places and the shape of +the mountains and the harbours, as well as that of the ranges +of mountains and of the bays and seaports, for the shape of +the cities and fortresses, high and low, the walls and the +gates and their position, to show the roads and the rivers, +the beaches and the lagoons and marshes which have to be +avoided or passed; for the course and spaces of the deserts +and sandy pits of the bad roads and of the woods and forests; +all this done in any other way is badly understood, but by +drawing and sketching all is very clear and intelligible; all of +these are great things in warlike undertakings, and the +drawings of the painter greatly aid and assist the intentions +and plans of the captain. What better thing can any brave +cavalier do than show before the eyes of the raw and inexperienced +soldiers the shape of the city that they have to +attack before they approach it, what river, what mountains +and what towns have to be passed on the morrow? And +the Italians, at least, say that, if the Emperor when he entered +Provence had first ordered the course of the river +Rodano to be drawn, he would not have sustained such great +losses, nor retired his army in disorder, nor would he have been +painted afterwards in Rome as a crab, which crawls sideways, +with the words borne by the columns of Hercules, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Plus ultra</span></span>, +for, wishing to go forward, he went back. And I well believe +that Alexander the Great in his great undertakings frequently +made use of the skill of Apelles, even if he himself did not +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page310">[pg 310]</span><a name="Pg310" id="Pg310" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>know how to draw. And in the works and commentaries, +written by the monarch Julius Cæsar, we may see how much +he availed himself of drawing, through some capable man +whom he had in his army. And I even think that the said +Cæsar was extremely intelligent in painting, that the great +Captain Pompey drew very well and with style, he being +vanquished by Cæsar, as Cæsar was a better draughtsman. +And I assert that a modern captain who commands a great +army and who is not capable and intelligent in painting and +cannot draw, cannot do any great feats or deeds of arms; and +that he who understands and esteems it will do deeds of +renown which will be long remembered, and will know his +ways and how he stands, and how and where he will +break through, and how he will order his retreat, and he +will know how to make his victory appear much greater. +For painting in war is not only advantageous but very necessary. +What country warmed by the sun is more bellicose and +better armed than our Italy, or where are there more continuous +wars and greater routs and sieges? and in what +country warmed by the sun is painting more esteemed and +celebrated than in Italy?"</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">M. Angelo was already reposing when João Çapata said:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"It indeed seems to me, Master Michael, that in arming +excellently Francisco d'Ollanda's lady you disarmed the +Emperor Charles, not remembering that we here are more +Colonna than Orsino. I do not wish to revenge myself for +that except by asking you, since you have shown the worth +of painting in war, to now say what it can do in peace, +because it appears to me that you have said so many +profitable things of it in the time of arms that I doubt +whether you will find as many in the time of the toga."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He laughed and answered:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"Your Excellency will please not to count me as an Orsino. +You will remember how I at once became one of those columns +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page311">[pg 311]</span><a name="Pg311" id="Pg311" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>that the crab was going to seek;" and afterwards he +added:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"If it was a trouble for me to show the advantage of this +our art in time of war, I hope it will not be so to show its +worth in the time of the toga and of peace; then princes are +in the habit of availing themselves with pleasure and cost of +things of very little importance and almost of no value at all; +and we see that some men are so clever in idle things that +by works of no nobility or profit, and without any learning +or substance, they are able to acquire a name, honour, profit +and substance for themselves and loss to whomsoever may give +them their profit. We see that in the domains and states +which are governed by a senate and republic they make +much use of painting in public places, in the cathedrals, in the +temples, in halls of justice, in courts, porticos, basilicas and +palaces, in libraries, and generally for public ornament; and +every noble citizen has privately in his palaces or chapels, +country seats or 'vignas,' a good portion of painting. But as +it is not lawful in such a country for any one to make more +show than his neighbour, by giving commissions to painters +so as to make themselves out rich and well-to-do, with how +much more reason ought this profitable art and science to be +made use of in the obedient and peaceful kingdoms where +God permits one man to incur all these magnificent expenses +and carry out all the sumptuous works that his taste and +honour may desire and demand, particularly as it is such a +generous art that one person can do alone and without any +adviser what many men together cannot do? And a prince +would be doing a great wrong to himself—to say nothing of +the fine arts—if, when he obtains quietness and saintly peace, +he does not undertake great enterprises in painting both +for the ornamentation and glory of his estate and for his +private contentment and the recreation of his mind. And +then in times of peace there are so many things in which +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page312">[pg 312]</span><a name="Pg312" id="Pg312" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>painting may be of use, that it seems to me that peace is +obtained with so much labour of arms, for nothing else but in +order to do her work, and carry out enterprises with the quiet +which she merits and demands, after the great services she +has rendered in war. For what name will remain alive in +consequence of a great victory or a great feat of arms, if +afterwards, when quiet comes, it be not kept in perpetual +memory (a thing so important and necessary amongst men), +by virtue of painting and architecture, in arches, triumphs +and tombs, and in many other ways. And Augustus Cæsar +departed not from my saying when, during the universal +peace in all lands, he closed the doors of the Temple of Janus, +because in closing those doors of iron he opened the doors of +gold of the treasures of the Empire, in order to spend more +largely in peace than he had done even in war; and perhaps +amongst such ambitious and magnificent works as those with +which he ornamented Mount Palatine and the Forum, he +paid as much for a figure in painting as he would have paid +to a regiment of soldiers in a month. So that the peace of +great princes should be desired in order that they may give +their country great works in painting for the ornamentation +of their estate and their glory, and receive from them spiritual +and special contentments and beautiful things to behold."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"I do not know, Senhor Michael," said I, "how you will +prove to me that Augustus paid as much for a painted figure +as he would pay to a regiment of soldiers for a month; if +you were to say that in Spain it would be more difficult to +believe you, than if you said that there were such bad +painters in Italy that they painted the Emperor with the legs +of a crab and with the label, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Plus ultra</span></span>!"</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Senhor Michael laughed once more, without the Marchioness, +and afterwards said:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"I well know that in Spain people do not pay so well +for painting as in Italy, and therefore you will be surprised +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page313">[pg 313]</span><a name="Pg313" id="Pg313" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>at the great sums paid for it, as you are only accustomed +to small sums; and I have been well informed of this by a +Portuguese servant that I had, and therefore painters live +and exist here, and not in the Spains. Of the Spaniards, the +finest nobility in the whole world, you will find some who +applaud and praise and like painting to a certain extent, but +on pressing them further, they have no mind to order even a +small work, nor to pay for it; and, what I consider baser still +they are astonished when they are told that there are persons +in Italy who give good prices for paintings; indeed, in my +judgment they do not act in this like such noble people as +they say they are, even though it were for nothing else but +not to undervalue that which they have no experience of and +cannot do; it recoils on their own head, however, they demean +themselves and disgrace the nobility of which they boast; +and not indeed that virtue, which will always be esteemed so +long as there are men here in Italy and in this city. And +for this reason a painter ought not to desire to be away from +this land in which we are; and you, M. Francisco d'Ollanda, +if you hope to be appreciated through the art of painting in +Spain or in Portugal, I tell you at once that you are living in +a vain and false hope, and that in my judgment you ought +rather to live in France or in Italy, where talent is recognised +and great painting is much esteemed, because you will find +here private persons and gentlemen, even those who at +present do not take much pleasure in painting, as for instance +Andrea Doria, who nevertheless had his palace painted +magnificently, and magnificently paid Master Perino his +painter; and like Cardinal Fernes, who does not know what +painting is, but who made a very nice allowance to the said +Master Perino, merely to call him his painter, giving him +twenty 'cruzados' per month and rations for him and for a +horse and servant, besides paying him very well for his works. +See what Cardinal Della Valla or Cardinal de Cesis did. +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page314">[pg 314]</span><a name="Pg314" id="Pg314" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Likewise Pope Paul, who, although not very musical nor +interested in painting, yet treats me well, and at least better +than I ask; and then there is Urbino, my servant, to whom he +gives solely for grinding my colour ten 'cruzados' a month +besides rations in the palace. I say nothing of his vain +favours and kindnesses, of which I sometimes feel ashamed. +Now, what shall I say of the diverting Sebastian Veneziano? +to whom (although he did not come at a favourable time) the +Pope gave the Leaden Seal, with the honour and profit which +appertain to that office, without the lazy painter having +painted more than two things in Rome, which will not astonish +Senhor Francisco much. So that in this our country, even +those who do not esteem painting greatly, pay for it much +better than those who are greatly delighted with it in Spain +or Portugal; and therefore I advise you as a son that you +ought not to depart from Italy, because I fear that if you do +you will repent it."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"I thank, you, Senhor Michael Angelo, for your advice," I +said to him, "but still I am serving the King of Portugal, +and in Portugal I was born and hope to die, and not in Italy. +But as you make such a difference in the value of painting +in Italy and in Spain, do me the favour of teaching me how +painting ought to be valued, because I am in this matter +so scandalised that I do not trust myself to value any +work."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"What do you call valuing?" he replied. "Do you wish +the painting which we are discussing to be paid for according +to a valuation, or do you think that any one knows how to +value it? for I consider that work to be worth a great price +which has been done by the hand of a very capable man, even +though in a short time; if it were done in a very long time +who will know how to value it? And I hold that to be of +very little value which has been painted in many years by a +person who does not know how to paint, although he be +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page315">[pg 315]</span><a name="Pg315" id="Pg315" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>called a painter; for works ought not to be esteemed because +of the amount of time employed and lost in the labour, but +because of the merit of the knowledge and of the hand which +did them; for if it were not so, they would not pay more to a +lawyer for an hour's examination of an important case, than to +a weaver for as much cloth as he may weave during the +course of his whole life, or to a navvy who is bathed in sweat +the whole day by his work. By such variation nature is +beautiful, and that valuation is very foolish which is made by +one who does not understand the good or the bad in the work: +some paintings worth little are valued highly, and others, +which are worth more, do not even pay for the care with +which they are done or for the discomfort that the painter +himself experiences when he knows that such persons have +to value his work, or for the exceeding disgust he feels asking +for payment from an unappreciative treasurer.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"It does not seem to me that the ancient painters were +content with your Spanish payments and valuations; and I +certainly think they were not, for we find that some were so +magnificently liberal that, knowing that there was not sufficient +money in the country to pay for their works, they presented +them liberally for nothing, having spent on such work, +labour of their mind, time and money. Such were Zeuxis, +Heracleotes and Polygnotus Thasius and others. And there +were others of a more impatient nature who used to waste +and break up the works that they had done with so much +trouble and study, on seeing that they were not paid for as +they deserved; like the painter who was commanded by +Cæsar to paint a picture, and having asked a sum of money +for it that Cæsar would not give, perhaps in order to effect +his intention the better, the painter took the picture and +was about to break it up, his wife and children around him +bemoaning such great loss; but Cæsar then delighted him, in +a manner proper to a Cæsar, giving him double the sum which +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page316">[pg 316]</span><a name="Pg316" id="Pg316" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>he had previously asked, telling him that he was a fool if he +expected to vanquish Cæsar."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"Now, Senhor Michael," said João Çapata, a Spaniard, +"one thing I cannot understand in the art of painting: it is +customary at times to paint, as one sees in many places in +this city, a thousand monsters and animals, some of them +with faces of women and with legs and with tails of fishes, +and others with arms like tigers' legs, and others with men's +faces; in short, painting that which most delights the painter +and which was never seen in the world."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"I am pleased," said Michael, "to tell you why it is usual +to paint that which was never seen in the world, and how +right such licence is, and how true it is, for some who do not +understand him are accustomed to say that Horace, a lyric +poet, wrote this verse in abuse of painters:</p> + +<div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 10.00em">Pictoribus adque poetis</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Quidlibet audendi semper fuit acqua potestas.</div> +<div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 2.00em">Scimus et hanc veniam petimusque damusque vicissim.</div> +</div> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This verse does not in any way insult painters, but rather +praises and honours them; for it says that poets and painters +have power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may +approve of; and this good insight and this power they have +always had, for whenever a great painter (which very seldom +happens) does a work which appears to be false and lying, that +falsity is very true, and if he were to put more truth into it +it would be a lie, as he will never do a thing which cannot be +in itself, nor make a man's hand with ten fingers, nor paint +on a horse the ears of a bull or the hump of a camel, nor will +he paint the foot of an elephant with the same feeling as for +that of a horse, nor in the arm or face of a child will he put +the senses of an old man, nor an ear nor an eye out of its +place by as much as the thickness of a finger, nor is he even +permitted to place a hidden vein in an arm anywhere he +likes; for such things as these are very false. But should he, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page317">[pg 317]</span><a name="Pg317" id="Pg317" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>in order better to retain the decorum of the place and time, +alter some of the limbs (as in grotesque work, which without +that would indeed be without grace and therefore false) or a +part of one thing into another species such as to change a +griffin or a deer from the middle downwards into a dolphin, +or from thence upwards into any figure he may wish, putting +wings instead of arms, putting off arms if wings suit it better, +that limb which he changes, whether of a lion, horse or +bird, will be quite perfect of the species to which it belongs; +and this although it may appear false can only be called well +imagined and monstrous. The reason is it is better decoration +when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for +variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the +attention of mortal eyes, which at times desire to see that +which they have never yet seen, nor does it appear to them +that it can be more unreasonable (although very admirable) +than the usual figures of men or animals. And so it is that +insatiable human desire took licence and neglected at times +buildings with columns and windows and doors for others +imitated in false grotesque, the columns of which are made of +children springing from the leaves of flowers, with the architraves +and summit of branches of myrtle and gates of canes +and other things, which appear to be very impossible and +out of reason, and yet all this is very grand if done by one +who understands it."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He ended, and I said:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"Does it not seem to you, Senhor, that this feigned work +is much more suitable for ornament in its proper place (such +as a country seat or a pleasure house) rather than, for instance, +a procession of friars, which is a very natural thing, or a King +David doing penance, is it not a great insult to drag him +from his oratory? And does not the god Pan playing on the +pipes, or a woman with the tail of a fish and wings (which is +seldom seen), appear to you to be a more suitable painting for +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page318">[pg 318]</span><a name="Pg318" id="Pg318" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>a garden or for a fountain? And it is a much greater falsity +to put an imagination in a place where the real is demanded, +and this reasoning explains all the things which some call +'impossibilities' in painting. Still the obstinate will say: +'How can a woman with a beautiful face have the tail of a +fish and the legs of the swift deer or panther, with wings on +her back like an angel?' To such one may however reply +that if such nonconformity is in just proportion in all its parts +it is quite in harmony and is very natural; and that much +praise is due to the painter who painted a thing which was +never seen and is so impossible, with such wit and judgment +that it seems to be alive and possible, so that men wish that +such things did exist in the world, and say that they could +pluck feathers from those wings and that it is moving hands +and eyes. And so one who paints (as a book said) a hare +which, in order to be distinguished from the dog following it, +required a label indicating it, such a person, painting a thing +so little deceitful, may be said to paint a great falsehood, +more difficult to find amongst the perfect works of nature +than a beautiful woman with the tail of a fish and wings."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">They agreed with what I said, even João Çapata himself, +who was not well instructed in the beauties of painting. +And Master Michael, seeing that his conversation was not +badly employed on us, said:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"Now what a high thing is decorum in painting! and how +little the painters who are no painters try to observe it! and +what attention the great man pays to this!"</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"And are there painters who are not painters?" asked +João Çapata."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"In many places," answered the painter, "but as the +majority of people are without sense and always love that +which they ought to abhor, and blame that which deserves +most praise, it is not very surprising that they are so constantly +mistaken about painting, an art worthy only of great understandings, +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page319">[pg 319]</span><a name="Pg319" id="Pg319" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>because without any discretion or reason, and +without making any difference, they call a painter both the +person who has nothing more than the oils and brushes of +painting and the illustrious painter who is not born in the +course of many years (which I consider to be a very great +thing); and as there are some who are called painters and are +not painters, so there is also painting which is not painting, +for they did it. And what is marvellous is that a bad painter +neither can nor knows how to imagine, nor does he even +desire to do good painting, his work mostly differs but little +from his imagination, which is generally somewhat worse; +for if he knew how to imagine well or in a masterly manner +in his fantasy, he could not have a hand so corrupt as not to +show some part or indication of his good will. But no one +has ever known how to aspire well in this science, except the +mind which understands what good work is, and what he can +make of it. It is a serious thing, this distance and difference +which exist between the high and the low understanding in +painting."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At this point M. Lactancio, who had not spoken for some +time, said:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"I cannot suffer at all one indiscretion of bad painters, the +images which they paint without consideration or devotion +in the churches. And I should like to direct our discussion +to this end, being sure that the carelessness with which some +paint the holy images cannot be good. Work which a very +incapable painter or man dares to do, without any fear, so +ignorantly that instead of moving mortals to devotion and +tears, he sometimes provokes them to laughter."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"This sort of painting is a great undertaking," proceeded +M. Angelo; "in order to imitate to some extent the venerable +image of our Lord it is not sufficient merely to be a great +master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary +for the painter to be very good in his mode of life, or +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page320">[pg 320]</span><a name="Pg320" id="Pg320" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>even, if such were possible, a saint, so that the Holy Spirit +may inspire his intellect. And we read that Alexander +the Great put a heavy penalty upon any painter other than +Apelles who should paint him, for he considered that man +alone able to paint his appearance with that severity and +liberal mind which could not be seen without being praised +by the Greeks and feared and adored by the barbarians. +And therefore if a poor man of this earth so commanded +by edict concerning his image, how much more reason have +the ecclesiastical or secular princes to take care to order +that no one shall paint the benignity and meekness of our +Redeemer or the purity of Our Lady and the Saints but the +most illustrious painters to be found in their domains and +provinces? And this would be a very famous and much +praised work in any lord. And even in the Old Testament +God the Father wished that those who only had to ornament +and paint the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">arca foederis</span></span> should be masters not merely +excellent and great, but also touched by His grace and +wisdom, God saying to Moses that He would imbue them +with the knowledge and intelligence of His Spirit so that +they might invent and do everything that He could invent +and do. And therefore if God the Father willed that the +ark of His Covenant should be well ornamented and painted, +how much more study and consideration must He wish applied +to the imitation of His Serene Face and that of His Son our +Lord, and of the composure, chastity and beauty of the +glorious Virgin Mary, who was painted by St. Luke the +Evangelist, the work is in the Sancto Sanctorum, and the +head of our Saviour which is in San Giovanni in Laterano, as +we all know, and especially Messer Francisco. Frequently +the images badly painted distract and cause devotion to be +lost, at least in those who possess little; and, on the contrary, +those that are divinely painted provoke and lead even +those who are little devout and but little inclined to worship +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page321">[pg 321]</span><a name="Pg321" id="Pg321" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>to contemplation and tears, and by their grave aspect imbue +them with reverence and fear."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">M. Lactancio then said, having turned towards me:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"Why did M. Angelo say of the picture of the Saviour, 'as +we all know and especially Messer Francisco'?"</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I answered: "Because, Senhor, he has already met me +two or three times on the road to San Giovanni Laterano, +going to obtain His grace for my salvation."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And I thereupon wished to cease speaking, but he desiring +me to continue, I recommenced thus:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"Senhor, the Most Serene Queen of Portugal, being +desirous of seeing the precious face of Our Saviour, +ordered our ambassador to have it drawn from the original, +but I, not trusting this to anybody, wished, with the desire +that I have to serve her, to dare to undertake this enterprise +myself, for it is very fine as regards execution and +no less as regards accuracy. And thus I have sent it to +her, done under such difficulties as Your Excellencies can +suspect."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"You cannot be a friend of the Lady Marchioness," said +João Çapata," for you did not show her a thing which is so +much to her liking; but tell me, Messer Francisco, did you +do it with that severe simplicity which the old painting has +and with that fear in those divine eyes which in the original +seem to belong to the very Saviour?"</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"I did it that way," I said to him, "and in it I desired to +put all the truth, neither to increase nor diminish anything +of that grave severity. But I fear that this, which was my +greatest work, will be the one the least known."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"No it will not," answered M. Lactancio Tolomei, "as in +that they will trust to your knowledge, and it will be an +image which will lead them to build a noble temple for it. I +am astonished at your being able to reproduce and send it, +for neither the Popes nor the Brothers of San Giovanni +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page322">[pg 322]</span><a name="Pg322" id="Pg322" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Laterano ever allowed the King of France or other devout +princesses to do so."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Then M. Angelo said:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"It is astonishing how M. Francisco worked, and how he +robbed Rome of this precious relic, and how he painted it +in oils, although in all his life he had never been a painter in +oils, and only made pictures hitherto easily contained on a +small parchment."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"How can it be," said M. Lactancio, "that one who +never painted in oils is capable of doing it, and that one who +has always done little things can also do big ones?"</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And as I did not reply, Michael Angelo answered him:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"Do not be surprised, sir, and as regards this I wish now +to state my views about the noble art of painting. Let every +man who is here understand this well: design, which by +another name is called drawing, and consists of it, is the +fount and body of painting and sculpture and architecture +and of every other kind of painting, and the root of all sciences. +Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the +power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure; he +will be able to make figures higher than any tower, either in +colours or carved from the block, and he will not be able to +find a wall or enclosure which does not appear circumscribed +and small to his brave imagination. And he will be able to +paint in fresco in the manner of old Italy, with all the mixtures +and varieties of colour usually employed in it. He will +be able to paint in oils very suavely with more knowledge, +daring and patience than painters. And, finally, on a small +piece of parchment he will be most perfect and great, as in +all other manners of painting. Because great, very great is +the power of design and drawing. Senhor Francisco d'Ollanda +can paint, if he wishes, everything that he knows how to draw."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"I will not ask again about another doubt," said M. Lactancio, +"because I dare not."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page323">[pg 323]</span><a name="Pg323" id="Pg323" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>"Please to dare, Your Excellency," said Michael Angelo, +"for as we have already sacrificed the day to painting, let us +likewise offer up the night which is setting in."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He then said: "I wish finally to know what this painting +that is so fine and rare must possess or what it is? Whether +there must be tourneys painted, or battles, or kings and +emperors covered with brocade, or well-dressed damsels, or +landscapes and fields and towns? Or whether perchance +it must be some angel or some saint painted and the actual +form of this world? Or what must it be? Whether it +must be done with gold or with silver, whether with very fine +tints or with very brilliant ones?"</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"Painting," M. Angelo began, "is not such a great work +as any of those which you have mentioned, sir, only the painting +which I so much vaunt and praise will be the imitation +of some single thing amongst those which immortal God +made with great care and knowledge and which He invented +and painted, like to a Master: and so downwards, whether +animals or birds, dispensing perfection according as each +thing merits it. And in my judgment that is the excellent +and divine painting which is most like and best imitates any +work of immortal God, whether a human figure, or a wild +and strange animal, or a simple and easy fish, or a bird of the +air or any other creature. And this neither with gold nor +silver nor with very fine tints, but drawn only with a +pen or a pencil, or with a brush in black and white. To +imitate perfectly each of these things in its species seems +to me to be nothing else but to desire to imitate the +work of immortal God. And yet that thing will be the +most noble and perfect in the works of painting which in +itself reproduced the thing which is most noble and of the +greatest delicacy and knowledge. And what barbarous judge +is there that cannot understand that the foot of a man is more +noble than his shoe? His skin than that of the sheep from +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page324">[pg 324]</span><a name="Pg324" id="Pg324" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>which his clothes are made? And who from this will proceed +to find the merit and degree in everything? But I do not +mean that, because a cat or a wolf is vile, the man who paints +them skilfully has not as much merit as one who paints a horse, +or the body of a lion, as even (as I have said above) in the simple +shape of a fish there is the same perfection and proportion +as in the form of man, and I may say the same of all the world +itself with all its cities. But all must be ranked according +to the work and study which one demands more than another, +and this should be taught to some ignorant persons who +have said that some painters painted faces well but that +they could not paint anything else. Others have said that +in Flanders they painted clothes and trees extremely well, and +some have maintained that in Italy they paint the nude and +symmetry or proportions better. And of others they say +other things. But my opinion is that he who knows how +to draw well and merely does a foot or a hand or a neck, can +paint everything created in the world; and yet there are +painters who paint everything there is in the world so imperfectly +and so much without worth that it would be better +not to do it at all. One recognises the knowledge of a +great man in the fear with which he does a thing the more +he understands it. And on the contrary, the ignorance of +others in the foolhardy daring with which they fill pictures +with what they know nothing about. There may be an +excellent master who has never painted more than a single +figure, and without painting anything more deserves more +renown and honour than those who have painted a thousand +pictures: he knows better how to do what he has not done +than the others know what they do.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"And not only is this as I tell you, but there is another +wonder which seems greater, namely, that if a capable man +merely makes a simple outline, like a person about to begin +something, he will at once be known by it—if Apelles, as +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page325">[pg 325]</span><a name="Pg325" id="Pg325" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Apelles; if an ignorant painter, as an ignorant painter. And +there is no necessity for more, neither more time, nor more +experience, nor examination, for eyes which understand it +and for those who know that by a single straight line Apelles +was distinguished from Protogenes, immortal Greek +painters."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And Michael Angelo having stopped, I proceeded:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"It is also a great thing that a great master, although he +may wish and work hard to do so, cannot so change or +injure his hand as to paint something appearing to have been +done by an apprentice, for whoever carefully examines such +a thing, will find in it some sign by which he will know that +it was done by the hand of a skilful person. And on the +contrary, one who knows little, although he may endeavour +to do the smallest thing so that it may appear to have been +done by a great man, will have his trouble in vain, because +immediately, when placed beside the work of a great man, it +will be recognised as having been done by a prentice hand. +But I should like now to know something more from Senhor +Michael Angelo, to see whether he agrees with my opinion, +and that is that he should tell me whether it is better to +paint a work quickly or slowly?"</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And he answered:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"I will tell you: to do anything quickly and swiftly is very +profitable and good, and it is a gift received from the immortal +God to do in a few hours what another is painting during +many days; for if it were not so Pausias of Sicyon would not +work so hard in order to paint in one day the perfection of a +child in a picture. If he who paints quickly does not on that +account paint worse than one who paints slowly, he deserves +therefore much greater praise. But should he through the +hurry of his hand pass the limits which it is not right to pass +in art, he ought rather to paint more slowly and studiously; +for an excellent and skilful man is not entitled to allow his +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page326">[pg 326]</span><a name="Pg326" id="Pg326" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>taste to err through his haste when thereby some part is forgotten +or neglected of the great object perfection, which is +what must be always sought; hence it is not a vice to work +a little slowly or even to be very slow, nor to spend much +time and care on works, if this be done for more perfection; +only the want of knowledge is a defect.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"And I wish to tell you, Francisco d'Ollanda, of an exceedingly +great beauty in this science of ours, of which +perhaps you are aware, and which I think you consider the +highest, namely, that what one has most to work and struggle +for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of +labour and study in such a way that it may afterwards appear, +however much it was laboured, to have been done almost +quickly and almost without any labour, and very easily, +although it was not. And this is a very excellent beauty, at +times some things are done with little work in the way I have +said, but very seldom: most are done by dint of hard work +and appear to have been done very quickly.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"But Plutarch says in his book <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">De Liberis educandis</span></span>, that a +poor painter showed Apelles what he was doing, telling him: +'This painting has just this moment been done by my hand,' +Apelles answered: 'Even if you had not said so I should have +known that it was by your hand and that it was done quickly, +and I am surprised that you do not do many of them every day.'</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"However I should prefer (if one had either to err or be +correct) to err or be correct quickly rather than slowly, and +that my painter should rather paint diligently and a little +less well than one who is very slow, painting better, but +not much better.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"But now I wish to know this of you, M. Francisco, to +see whether you agree with my opinion, namely, that you +should tell me if there are many different ways of painting +almost of equal goodness; which of them will you consider +the worst, or which of them are bad?"</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page327">[pg 327]</span><a name="Pg327" id="Pg327" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>"That is still a greater question," I replied, "Senhor Michael, +than the one I put to you; but just as Mother Nature has +produced in one place men and animals, and in another place +men and animals, all made according to one art and proportion, +and yet very different to each other, so it is, almost +miraculously, with the hands of painters, as you will find +many great men each of whom paints in his own manner and +style men and women and animals, their styles greatly differing, +and yet they all of them retain the same proportions and +principles; and yet all these different styles may be good and +worthy of being praised in their differences. For in Rome +Polidoro, a painter, had a very different style to that of +Balthazar, of Siena; M. Perino different from that of Julius, of +Mantua; Martorino did not resemble Parmesano; Cavalliere +Tiziano in Venice was softer than Leonardo da Vinci; the +sprightliness of Raphael of Urbino and his softness does not +resemble the work of Bastiāo Veneziano; your work does not +resemble any other; nor is my small talent similar to any +other. And although the famous ones whom I have mentioned +have the light and shade, the design and the +colours different from each other, they are none the less all +great and famous men, and each distinguished by his difference +and style, and their works very worthy of being valued at +almost the same price, because each of them worked to +imitate Nature and perfection in the manner that he considered +to be the most proper, and his own, and in accordance +with his idea and intention."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And this said, we rose and went away as it was already +night.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc111" id="toc111"></a><a name="pdf112" id="pdf112"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page329">[pg 329]</span><a name="Pg329" id="Pg329" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">THE WORKS OF MICHAEL ANGELO</span></h1> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Rape of Deianira, or the Battle of the Centaurs, a bas-relief, 1490.<br /> +Casa Buonarroti, Florence.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Angel of the Shrine of Saint Dominic, a marble statuette, 1494.<br /> +San Domenico, Bologna.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Bacchus, a marble statue, 1497.<br /> +National Museum, Florence.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Madonna della Pietà, a marble group, 1499.<br /> +St. Peter's, Rome.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The David, a colossal marble statue, 1504.<br /> +Accademia della Belle Arti, Florence.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">St. Matthew, an unfinished heroic marble statue.<br /> +The Court of the Accademia delle Belle Arti, Florence.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Madonna and Child, marble statue, 1506.<br /> +St. Bavon, Bruges.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Madonna and Child, a tondo, marble bas-relief, unfinished.<br /> +National Museum, Florence.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page330">[pg 330]</span><a name="Pg330" id="Pg330" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>The Madonna and Child, a tondo, marble bas-relief, unfinished.<br /> +The Diploma Gallery of the Royal Academy, London.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Holy Family, a tondo, painted on wood.<br /> +No. 1139, The Uffizi, Florence.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Moses, a heroic marble statue.<br /> +San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Vault of the Sistine Chapel, ceiling frescoes, 1512.<br /> +Vatican, Rome.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Madonna and Infant Christ, St. John the Baptist and Angels, an unfinished painting on wood by Bugiardini, the Cartoon alone by Michael Angelo.<br /> +No. 809, The National Gallery, London.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Risen Christ, a marble statue, 1521.<br /> +Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, Rome.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Tombs of Lorenzo dei Medici, Duke of Urbino and Giuliano, Duc de Nemours, heroic marble statues, the figures of Day and Evening and the architecture left unfinished by the master in 1534.<br /> +New Sacristy, San Lorenzo, Florence.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Madonna and Child, heroic marble statue.<br /> +New Sacristy, San Lorenzo, Florence.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Four Slaves, unfinished heroic marble statues.<br /> +The Grotto of the Boboli Gardens, Florence.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Apollo, an unfinished marble statue.<br /> +The National Museum, Florence.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Leda, a painting, damaged and restored as to the head, arms, and shoulder, 1529.<br /> +Offices of the National Gallery, London.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page331">[pg 331]</span><a name="Pg331" id="Pg331" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>The Slaves, two heroic marble statues.<br /> +Room of Renaissance Sculpture, the Louvre, Paris.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Brutus, an unfinished marble bust.<br /> +The National Museum, Florence.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Day of Judgment, fresco, 1541.<br /> +The Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Entombment of our Lord, an unfinished painting on wood, the figures of our Lord and the men very much repainted, the three women and the background by the master.<br /> +No. 790, the National Gallery, London.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Martyrdom of St. Peter, a fresco, 1549.<br /> +Cappella Paolina, Vatican, Rome.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Conversion of St. Paul, a fresco, 1549.<br /> +Cappella Paolina, Vatican, Rome.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Pietà of Santa Maria del Fiore, a marble group.<br /> +The Duomo, Florence.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc113" id="toc113"></a><a name="pdf114" id="pdf114"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page332">[pg 332]</span><a name="Pg332" id="Pg332" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL BOOKS +CONSULTED BY THE AUTHOR</span></h1> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Berenson, Bernhard</span></span>.<br /> +The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance. London and New York, 1896.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Black, Charles Christopher</span></span>.<br /> +Michael Angelo Buonarroti, Sculptor, Painter and Architect. London, 1875.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Cellini, Benvenuto</span></span>.<br /> +Vita di, Scritta da lui Medesimo. Firenze, 1885.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Clément, Charles</span></span>.<br /> +Michelangelo. London, 1880.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Condivi, Ascanio</span></span>.<br /> +Vita di Michelangelo Buonarroti, Scritta da A.C. suo discepolo. Pisa, 1746. First edition Roma, 1553.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Gotti, Aurelio</span></span>.<br /> +Vita di Michelangelo Buonarroti. Firenze, 1875.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Hasenclever, Sophie</span></span>.<br /> +Saumtliche Gedichte Michelangelo's. Leipzic, 1875.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Hollanda, Francesco de</span></span>.<br /> +Quatro Diologos da Pintura Antigua, La Renascença Portugueza. Porto, 1896.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page333">[pg 333]</span><a name="Pg333" id="Pg333" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Milanesi, Gaetano</span></span>; and <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">le Docteur A Le Pileur</span></span>.<br /> +Les Correspondants de Michel-Ange, i Sebastiano del Piombo. Librairie de l'Art. Paris, 1890.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Milanesi, Gaetano</span></span>.<br /> +Le Lettre di Michelangelo Buonarroti, publicate coi Ricordi ed i Contratti Artistici. Firenze, 1875.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Symonds, John Addington</span></span>.<br /> +The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti. London, 1893.<br /> +The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tomaso Campanella. London, 1878.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Vasari, Giorgio</span></span>.<br /> +Le Vite de' pin eccellenti Pittori, Scultori et Architetti. Bologna, 1647. And first edition, Firenze, 1550. Second edition, Firenze, 1558.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Wilson, Charles Heath</span></span>.<br /> +Life and Works of Michelangelo Buonarroti. London, 1881.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc115" id="toc115"></a><a name="pdf116" id="pdf116"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page334">[pg 334]</span><a name="Pg334" id="Pg334" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">ERRATUM</span></h1> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Page 27, note 1, line 2, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">for</span></span> 1831, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">read</span></span> 1873</p> +</div> + +<hr class="doublepage" /><div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<a name="toc117" id="toc117"></a><a name="pdf118" id="pdf118"></a> +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page335">[pg 335]</span><a name="Pg335" id="Pg335" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><h1 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em"><span style="font-size: 173%">INDEX</span></h1> + + + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Abel, <a href="#Pg44" class="tei tei-ref">44</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Academy: Florence, <a href="#Pg117" class="tei tei-ref">117</a>, <a href="#Pg260" class="tei tei-ref">260</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Accursio: a messenger from Julius II., <a href="#Pg51" class="tei tei-ref">51</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Active Life; The Tomb of Julius II., <a href="#Pg68" class="tei tei-ref">68</a>, <a href="#Pg225" class="tei tei-ref">225</a>, <a href="#Pg226" class="tei tei-ref">226</a>, <a href="#Pg227" class="tei tei-ref">227</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Adam: Sistine Chapel, <a href="#Pg13" class="tei tei-ref">13</a>, note; <a href="#Pg43" class="tei tei-ref">43</a>, <a href="#Pg163" class="tei tei-ref">163</a>, <a href="#Pg165" class="tei tei-ref">165</a>, <a href="#Pg171" class="tei tei-ref">171</a>-<a href="#Pg175" class="tei tei-ref">175</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Adonis, <a href="#Pg129" class="tei tei-ref">129</a>, <a href="#Pg229" class="tei tei-ref">229</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Adrian IV.: Pope <a href="#Pg54" class="tei tei-ref">54</a>, <a href="#Pg190" class="tei tei-ref">190</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Aginense: Cardinal, <a href="#Pg51" class="tei tei-ref">51</a>, <a href="#Pg52" class="tei tei-ref">52</a>, <a href="#Pg146" class="tei tei-ref">146</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Agnolo: Herald of Florence, <a href="#Pg135" class="tei tei-ref">135</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Agnolo: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Doni<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Agostino: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Duccio<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Agostino: San, the Isaiah of Raphael at, <a href="#Pg177" class="tei tei-ref">177</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Agnolo di Donnino: assistant, <a href="#Pg151" class="tei tei-ref">151</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Alberigo: Marchese, <a href="#Pg52" class="tei tei-ref">52</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Alberto: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Dürer<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Albertina: Vienna, <a href="#Pg193" class="tei tei-ref">193</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Albertini: his statement, <a href="#Pg164" class="tei tei-ref">164</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Albizzi: Anton Francesco degli, portrait by Sebastiano, <a href="#Pg197" class="tei tei-ref">197</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Alcibiades, <a href="#Pg87" class="tei tei-ref">87</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Aldobrandini: sword-hilt designed for, <a href="#Pg136" class="tei tei-ref">136</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Aldovrandi: Gian Francesco, his kindness to the master, <a href="#Pg18" class="tei tei-ref">18</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Aldovrandi: Ulisse, sees a statue of Apollo, <a href="#Pg108" class="tei tei-ref">108</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Alessandro da Carnossa, <a href="#Pg3" class="tei tei-ref">3</a>, note<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Alessandro de' Medici: <br /> +Duke, his ill-will to the master, <a href="#Pg59" class="tei tei-ref">59</a>, <a href="#Pg60" class="tei tei-ref">60</a>, <a href="#Pg62" class="tei tei-ref">62</a>;<br /> +flight, <a href="#Pg201" class="tei tei-ref">201</a>; <a href="#Pg250" class="tei tei-ref">250</a>, <a href="#Pg305" class="tei tei-ref">305</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Alexander the Great, <a href="#Pg285" class="tei tei-ref">285</a>, <a href="#Pg286" class="tei tei-ref">286</a>, <a href="#Pg309" class="tei tei-ref">309</a>, <a href="#Pg320" class="tei tei-ref">320</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Alexander VI.: Pope, <a href="#Pg29" class="tei tei-ref">29</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Alfonso: Duke of Ferrara, <a href="#Pg60" class="tei tei-ref">60</a>, <a href="#Pg61" class="tei tei-ref">61</a>, <a href="#Pg204" class="tei tei-ref">204</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Alva: Duke of, <a href="#Pg265" class="tei tei-ref">265</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Aman, <a href="#Pg45" class="tei tei-ref">45</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Amanati: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Bartolomeo<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ambrosio: Brother, <a href="#Pg272" class="tei tei-ref">272</a>-<a href="#Pg274" class="tei tei-ref">274</a>; <a href="#Pg289" class="tei tei-ref">289</a>, <a href="#Pg306" class="tei tei-ref">306</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Anatomy: <br /> +studies at Santo Spirito, <a href="#Pg16" class="tei tei-ref">16</a>;<br /> +of animals as well as man, <a href="#Pg75" class="tei tei-ref">75</a>;<br /> +dissection and a treatise upon it, <a href="#Pg81" class="tei tei-ref">81</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ancestors of Christ: Sistine Chapel, <a href="#Pg166" class="tei tei-ref">166</a>, <a href="#Pg169" class="tei tei-ref">169</a>, <a href="#Pg177" class="tei tei-ref">177</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Andrea del Sarto, <a href="#Pg103" class="tei tei-ref">103</a>, note; <br /> +studies the Cartoon, <a href="#Pg127" class="tei tei-ref">127</a>, <a href="#Pg224" class="tei tei-ref">224</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Angel: for the Shrine of San Domenico, <a href="#Pg19" class="tei tei-ref">19</a>, <a href="#Pg104" class="tei tei-ref">104</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Angelico: Fra, <a href="#Pg219" class="tei tei-ref">219</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Angeli: S.M. degli, <a href="#Pg251" class="tei tei-ref">251</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Anna: the Beautiful, <a href="#Pg293" class="tei tei-ref">293</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Antonio: a servant, successor to Urbino, <a href="#Pg236" class="tei tei-ref">236</a>, <a href="#Pg258" class="tei tei-ref">258</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Antonio: Maria da Legnia, <a href="#Pg145" class="tei tei-ref">145</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Antonio: <br /> +San, copy, <a href="#Pg7" class="tei tei-ref">7</a>, <a href="#Pg97" class="tei tei-ref">97</a>;<br /> +Cartoon for Mineghella, <a href="#Pg264" class="tei tei-ref">264</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Antonio: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Mini<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Apelles, <a href="#Pg278" class="tei tei-ref">278</a>, <a href="#Pg309" class="tei tei-ref">309</a>; <a href="#Pg320" class="tei tei-ref">320</a>, <a href="#Pg325" class="tei tei-ref">325</a>, <a href="#Pg326" class="tei tei-ref">326</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Apollo: in the Bargello, <a href="#Pg204" class="tei tei-ref">204</a>, <a href="#Pg228" class="tei tei-ref">228</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Arcadelt: Giacomo, sets the master's madrigals to music, <a href="#Pg207" class="tei tei-ref">207</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Aretino, <a href="#Pg222" class="tei tei-ref">222</a>, <a href="#Pg283" class="tei tei-ref">283</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Arezzo: fortifications at, <a href="#Pg202" class="tei tei-ref">202</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Arno, <a href="#Pg193" class="tei tei-ref">193</a>; <br /> +and <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Cartoon<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Arrigo Fiamingo: fresco, Sistine Chapel, <a href="#Pg167" class="tei tei-ref">167</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ascanio: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Condivi<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Assumption: by Daniele, with a portrait of the master, <a href="#Pg253" class="tei tei-ref">253</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Assunta: oratory of, <a href="#Pg260" class="tei tei-ref">260</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Athletes: Sistine Chapel, <a href="#Pg13" class="tei tei-ref">13</a>, note; <a href="#Pg164" class="tei tei-ref">164</a>, <a href="#Pg167" class="tei tei-ref">167</a>, <a href="#Pg168" class="tei tei-ref">168</a>, <a href="#Pg173" class="tei tei-ref">173</a>-<a href="#Pg178" class="tei tei-ref">178</a>, <a href="#Pg211" class="tei tei-ref">211</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Athens, <a href="#Pg156" class="tei tei-ref">156</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Attalante, <a href="#Pg146" class="tei tei-ref">146</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Avignon, <a href="#Pg293" class="tei tei-ref">293</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bacchus: carved in Rome, <a href="#Pg24" class="tei tei-ref">24</a>, <a href="#Pg107" class="tei tei-ref">107</a>, <a href="#Pg108" class="tei tei-ref">108</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Baccio d'Agnolo, <a href="#Pg116" class="tei tei-ref">116</a><br /></p> + + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page336">[pg 336]</span><a name="Pg336" id="Pg336" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Baglioni: the traitor, <a href="#Pg203" class="tei tei-ref">203</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Baldassare: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Peruzzi<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Baldassari: del Milanese, buys the god of Love, <a href="#Pg21" class="tei tei-ref">21</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bandinelli: Baccio, studies the Cartoon, <a href="#Pg126" class="tei tei-ref">126</a>;<br /> +Hercules and Cacus, <a href="#Pg204" class="tei tei-ref">204</a>, <a href="#Pg270" class="tei tei-ref">270</a>, <a href="#Pg295" class="tei tei-ref">295</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bandini: Francesco, <a href="#Pg236" class="tei tei-ref">236</a>, <a href="#Pg246" class="tei tei-ref">246</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Baptistry: Florence, <a href="#Pg255" class="tei tei-ref">255</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bargello: <br /> +Florence, mask of a faun, <a href="#Pg11" class="tei tei-ref">11</a>;<br /> +Tondo, <a href="#Pg121" class="tei tei-ref">121</a>, <a href="#Pg129" class="tei tei-ref">129</a>;<br /> +Apollo, <a href="#Pg205" class="tei tei-ref">205</a>, <a href="#Pg228" class="tei tei-ref">228</a>;<br /> +Brutus, <a href="#Pg249" class="tei tei-ref">249</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bartolomei: Messer, <a href="#Pg231" class="tei tei-ref">231</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bartolomeo: Amanati, letter to, <a href="#Pg238" class="tei tei-ref">238</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bartolommea: widow of Buonarroto, <a href="#Pg201" class="tei tei-ref">201</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bas-relief: Florentine love of, <a href="#Pg121" class="tei tei-ref">121</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bassano, <a href="#Pg174" class="tei tei-ref">174</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bathers: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Cartoon<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Battista Benti: carves details in the Tomb of Julius II., <a href="#Pg226" class="tei tei-ref">226</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Battista del Cinque: carpenter, <a href="#Pg197" class="tei tei-ref">197</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Batista Lorenzi, <a href="#Pg253" class="tei tei-ref">253</a>, <a href="#Pg262" class="tei tei-ref">262</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Beatrice: of Mantua, <a href="#Pg3" class="tei tei-ref">3</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Beaumont: Sir George, presents a tondo to the Royal Academy, <a href="#Pg121" class="tei tei-ref">121</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Belvedere: works ordered by Julius III., <a href="#Pg78" class="tei tei-ref">78</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Beinbo, <a href="#Pg76" class="tei tei-ref">76</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bene: Benedetto, copies the Leda, <a href="#Pg204" class="tei tei-ref">204</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bentivogli: <br /> +law, <a href="#Pg18" class="tei tei-ref">18</a>;<br /> +return to Bologna, <a href="#Pg40" class="tei tei-ref">40</a>, <a href="#Pg141" class="tei tei-ref">141</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Benvenuto: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Cellini<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bernardo Cencio: Canon of St. Peter's, <a href="#Pg180" class="tei tei-ref">180</a>, <a href="#Pg181" class="tei tei-ref">181</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bernardo da Bibbiena, <a href="#Pg146" class="tei tei-ref">146</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bernardo della Ciecha, <a href="#Pg116" class="tei tei-ref">116</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Berlin, <a href="#Pg106" class="tei tei-ref">106</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bertoldo: the master of Michael Angelo in Sculpture, <a href="#Pg99" class="tei tei-ref">99</a>, <a href="#Pg100" class="tei tei-ref">100</a>, <a href="#Pg102" class="tei tei-ref">102</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Berugetta: Alonso, <a href="#Pg126" class="tei tei-ref">126</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Biagio da Cesena: objects to nude figures, <a href="#Pg222" class="tei tei-ref">222</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bibbiena: Cardinal, rebukes Cardieri, l7<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bible: <br /> +the master's study, <a href="#Pg86" class="tei tei-ref">86</a>;<br /> +of Raphael, <a href="#Pg173" class="tei tei-ref">173</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bini: Bernardo, trustee for the Tomb, <a href="#Pg51" class="tei tei-ref">51</a>, <a href="#Pg69" class="tei tei-ref">69</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Blois: Chateau, <a href="#Pg251" class="tei tei-ref">251</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Boboli Gardens: the grotto with four statues, <a href="#Pg129" class="tei tei-ref">129</a>, <a href="#Pg227" class="tei tei-ref">227</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Boccaccio, <a href="#Pg19" class="tei tei-ref">19</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bologna: <br /> +flight to, <a href="#Pg18" class="tei tei-ref">18</a>-20;<br /> +with Julius II. at, <a href="#Pg39" class="tei tei-ref">39</a>, <a href="#Pg40" class="tei tei-ref">40</a>;<br /> +conversations at, <a href="#Pg90" class="tei tei-ref">90</a>, <a href="#Pg132" class="tei tei-ref">132</a>;<br /> +the Colossal Bronze destroyed, <a href="#Pg141" class="tei tei-ref">141</a>, <a href="#Pg171" class="tei tei-ref">171</a>, <a href="#Pg195" class="tei tei-ref">195</a>, <a href="#Pg291" class="tei tei-ref">291</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bonasoni: <br /> +Giulio, engravings, a Pietà, <a href="#Pg230" class="tei tei-ref">230</a>;<br /> +portrait of the master, <a href="#Pg253" class="tei tei-ref">253</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bonifazio: Count, <a href="#Pg3" class="tei tei-ref">3</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bononiensis: Tudius, engraves a Pietà, <a href="#Pg230" class="tei tei-ref">230</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Boon companions: of the master, <a href="#Pg264" class="tei tei-ref">264</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Borgerini: Pier Francesco, <a href="#Pg182" class="tei tei-ref">182</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Borghini: Don Vincenzo, opens the coffin, <a href="#Pg261" class="tei tei-ref">261</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Borgia: Cesare, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Valentino<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Borgo, <a href="#Pg178" class="tei tei-ref">178</a>, <a href="#Pg238" class="tei tei-ref">238</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Botticelli: <br /> +Sandro, letter addressed to him, <a href="#Pg23" class="tei tei-ref">23</a>, <a href="#Pg107" class="tei tei-ref">107</a>, <a href="#Pg116" class="tei tei-ref">116</a>; <br /> +Popes and histories by, <a href="#Pg166" class="tei tei-ref">166</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bramante: <br /> +destroys S. Petronilla, <a href="#Pg25" class="tei tei-ref">25</a>;<br /> +Tomb of Julius, <a href="#Pg31" class="tei tei-ref">31</a>;<br /> +his errors, <a href="#Pg32" class="tei tei-ref">32</a>;<br /> +rebuilding of S. Peter's, <a href="#Pg34" class="tei tei-ref">34</a>;<br /> +suggests the painting of the vault, <a href="#Pg41" class="tei tei-ref">41</a>;<br /> +and Raphael to finish it, <a href="#Pg47" class="tei tei-ref">47</a>;<br /> +his shortcomings, <a href="#Pg48" class="tei tei-ref">48</a>;<br /> +scaffold, <a href="#Pg82" class="tei tei-ref">82</a>;<br /> +has the Pope's ear in Rome, <a href="#Pg130" class="tei tei-ref">130</a>;<br /> +vault painting, <a href="#Pg131" class="tei tei-ref">131</a>, <a href="#Pg164" class="tei tei-ref">164</a>;<br /> +"a brave architect," <a href="#Pg238" class="tei tei-ref">238</a>, <a href="#Pg240" class="tei tei-ref">240</a>-<a href="#Pg242" class="tei tei-ref">242</a>, <a href="#Pg295" class="tei tei-ref">295</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Brancacci Chapel: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Masaccio<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Brazen Serpent: Sistine Chapel, <a href="#Pg46" class="tei tei-ref">46</a>; <a href="#Pg178" class="tei tei-ref">178</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">British Museum: <br /> +drawings, advice to Mini, <a href="#Pg192" class="tei tei-ref">192</a>;<br /> +for the tombs, <a href="#Pg193" class="tei tei-ref">193</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bronze-coloured figures: Sistine Chapel, <a href="#Pg169" class="tei tei-ref">169</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Brothers of the master: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Buonarroto, Giovan Simone, Sigismondo <br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bruciolo: invites the master to Venice, <a href="#Pg78" class="tei tei-ref">78</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bruges, <a href="#Pg29" class="tei tei-ref">29</a>, <a href="#Pg121" class="tei tei-ref">121</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Brunelleschi: <br /> +the lantern of, <a href="#Pg192" class="tei tei-ref">192</a>;<br /> +his dome, <a href="#Pg208" class="tei tei-ref">208</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Brutus: <br /> +bust of, Bargello, <a href="#Pg249" class="tei tei-ref">249</a>;<br /> +nickname of Lorenzino, <a href="#Pg250" class="tei tei-ref">250</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Buggiardini: <br /> +Giuliano assistant, <a href="#Pg150" class="tei tei-ref">150</a>, <a href="#Pg155" class="tei tei-ref">155</a>;<br /> +paints the master's portrait, and a Madonna and Child from a cartoon of the master's, <a href="#Pg157" class="tei tei-ref">157</a>, <a href="#Pg158" class="tei tei-ref">158</a>, <a href="#Pg252" class="tei tei-ref">252</a>, <a href="#Pg264" class="tei tei-ref">264</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Buonarroti: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Michael Angelo<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Buonarroti: <br /> +Casa, bas-reliefs in, <a href="#Pg102" class="tei tei-ref">102</a>; <a href="#Pg104" class="tei tei-ref">104</a>;<br /> +presented to Florence, <a href="#Pg105" class="tei tei-ref">105</a>;<br /> +wax models of the David, <a href="#Pg118" class="tei tei-ref">118</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Buonarroti: Senator Filippo, <a href="#Pg203" class="tei tei-ref">203</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Buonarroto: <br /> +brother of the master, <a href="#Pg4" class="tei tei-ref">4</a>;<br /> +established in business, <a href="#Pg109" class="tei tei-ref">109</a>, <a href="#Pg151" class="tei tei-ref">151</a>, <a href="#Pg152" class="tei tei-ref">152</a>;<br /> +letters to, <a href="#Pg133" class="tei tei-ref">133</a>, <a href="#Pg134" class="tei tei-ref">134</a>, <a href="#Pg136" class="tei tei-ref">136</a>, <a href="#Pg141" class="tei tei-ref">141</a>, <a href="#Pg161" class="tei tei-ref">161</a>, <a href="#Pg181" class="tei tei-ref">181</a>;<br /> +his health, <a href="#Pg165" class="tei tei-ref">165</a>;<br /> +dies of the plague in the master's arms, <a href="#Pg201" class="tei tei-ref">201</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Buoninsegna: Domenico, <a href="#Pg183" class="tei tei-ref">183</a><br /></p> + + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page337">[pg 337]</span><a name="Pg337" id="Pg337" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Cain, <a href="#Pg44" class="tei tei-ref">44</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Calcagni: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Tiberio<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Camerino: Duke of, writes to the master, <a href="#Pg217" class="tei tei-ref">217</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Campidoglio: <br /> +plans of the master, <a href="#Pg248" class="tei tei-ref">248</a>;<br /> +his portrait there, <a href="#Pg253" class="tei tei-ref">253</a>, <a href="#Pg270" class="tei tei-ref">270</a>, <a href="#Pg305" class="tei tei-ref">305</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Campo Santo: Pisa, <a href="#Pg219" class="tei tei-ref">219</a>, <a href="#Pg220" class="tei tei-ref">220</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Canossa, <a href="#Pg3" class="tei tei-ref">3</a>-5<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Çapata: João, <a href="#Pg306" class="tei tei-ref">306</a>, <a href="#Pg307" class="tei tei-ref">307</a>, <a href="#Pg310" class="tei tei-ref">310</a>, <a href="#Pg316" class="tei tei-ref">316</a>, <a href="#Pg318" class="tei tei-ref">318</a>, <a href="#Pg321" class="tei tei-ref">321</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Capitol: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Campidoglio<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Capponi: Niccolo, <a href="#Pg201" class="tei tei-ref">201</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Caprese: the master born at, <a href="#Pg5" class="tei tei-ref">5</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Cardiere: improvisatore, his dream, <a href="#Pg16" class="tei tei-ref">16</a>, <a href="#Pg17" class="tei tei-ref">17</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Carlino: chamberlain, <a href="#Pg147" class="tei tei-ref">147</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Carlo degli Albizzi, <a href="#Pg147" class="tei tei-ref">147</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Caro: Annibal, <a href="#Pg76" class="tei tei-ref">76</a>, <a href="#Pg85" class="tei tei-ref">85</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Carota: woodcarver, <a href="#Pg197" class="tei tei-ref">197</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Carpi: Cardinal, <a href="#Pg246" class="tei tei-ref">246</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Carrara, <a href="#Pg30" class="tei tei-ref">30</a>, <a href="#Pg52" class="tei tei-ref">52</a>, <a href="#Pg53" class="tei tei-ref">53</a>, <a href="#Pg183" class="tei tei-ref">183</a>, <a href="#Pg185" class="tei tei-ref">185</a>, <a href="#Pg190" class="tei tei-ref">190</a>, <a href="#Pg192" class="tei tei-ref">192</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Cartoon of Pisa, <a href="#Pg37" class="tei tei-ref">37</a>, <a href="#Pg124" class="tei tei-ref">124</a>, <a href="#Pg125" class="tei tei-ref">125</a>;<br /> +Vasari's account, <a href="#Pg126" class="tei tei-ref">126</a>;<br /> +Cellini's, <a href="#Pg127" class="tei tei-ref">127</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Cassandra Ridolfi: marries Leonardo, <a href="#Pg254" class="tei tei-ref">254</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Caterina: Santa, <a href="#Pg31" class="tei tei-ref">31</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Catherine de' Medici: letter from, <a href="#Pg251" class="tei tei-ref">251</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Cavalcani, <a href="#Pg24" class="tei tei-ref">24</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Cavalcanti: altar of, <a href="#Pg261" class="tei tei-ref">261</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Cavalieri: <br /> +Tomaso dei, a friend, <a href="#Pg85" class="tei tei-ref">85</a>;<br /> +drawings for, <a href="#Pg230" class="tei tei-ref">230</a>;<br /> +letter from, <a href="#Pg231" class="tei tei-ref">231</a>, <a href="#Pg246" class="tei tei-ref">246</a>, <a href="#Pg248" class="tei tei-ref">248</a>, <a href="#Pg258" class="tei tei-ref">258</a>, <a href="#Pg259" class="tei tei-ref">259</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Cellini: <br /> +Benvenuto, <a href="#Pg91" class="tei tei-ref">91</a>, <a href="#Pg92" class="tei tei-ref">92</a>, <a href="#Pg118" class="tei tei-ref">118</a>;<br /> +describes the Cartoon, <a href="#Pg127" class="tei tei-ref">127</a>, <a href="#Pg202" class="tei tei-ref">202</a>, <a href="#Pg252" class="tei tei-ref">252</a>, <a href="#Pg255" class="tei tei-ref">255</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Centaurs: battle of, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Deianira<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Cesena: Bishop of, <a href="#Pg85" class="tei tei-ref">85</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Charles: the Emperor, <a href="#Pg309" class="tei tei-ref">309</a>, <a href="#Pg310" class="tei tei-ref">310</a>, <a href="#Pg312" class="tei tei-ref">312</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Charon, <a href="#Pg71" class="tei tei-ref">71</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Chigi, <a href="#Pg292" class="tei tei-ref">292</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Chiostro Verde: S.M. Novella, <a href="#Pg173" class="tei tei-ref">173</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Christ: <br /> +on the Cross, modelled for Mineghella, <a href="#Pg264" class="tei tei-ref">264</a>;<br /> +taken down from the Cross, Vittoria Colonna, <a href="#Pg85" class="tei tei-ref">85</a>;<br /> +the Risen, in the Minerva, <a href="#Pg74" class="tei tei-ref">74</a>, <a href="#Pg180" class="tei tei-ref">180</a>, <a href="#Pg181" class="tei tei-ref">181</a>, <a href="#Pg187" class="tei tei-ref">187</a>-<a href="#Pg189" class="tei tei-ref">189</a>;<br /> +a statuette, <a href="#Pg259" class="tei tei-ref">259</a> <br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ciapino: carpenter, <a href="#Pg197" class="tei tei-ref">197</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Cioli: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Valerio<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Clement VII: <br /> +Pope, <a href="#Pg10" class="tei tei-ref">10</a>;<br /> +Medici Library, <a href="#Pg54" class="tei tei-ref">54</a>;<br /> +clemency, <a href="#Pg58" class="tei tei-ref">58</a>;<br /> +Medici Tombs, <a href="#Pg59" class="tei tei-ref">59</a>;<br /> +recalls the master to Rome, <a href="#Pg60" class="tei tei-ref">60</a>, <a href="#Pg64" class="tei tei-ref">64</a>;<br /> +orders the Day of Judgment, <a href="#Pg64" class="tei tei-ref">64</a>, <a href="#Pg78" class="tei tei-ref">78</a>;<br /> +the New Sacristy, <a href="#Pg186" class="tei tei-ref">186</a>;<br /> +elected Pope, <a href="#Pg190" class="tei tei-ref">190</a>-<a href="#Pg192" class="tei tei-ref">192</a>, <a href="#Pg195" class="tei tei-ref">195</a>;<br /> +his postscript, <a href="#Pg197" class="tei tei-ref">197</a>;<br /> +and curious commission, <a href="#Pg198" class="tei tei-ref">198</a>;<br /> +besieged in St. Angelo, <a href="#Pg200" class="tei tei-ref">200</a>;<br /> +anger abates, <a href="#Pg203" class="tei tei-ref">203</a>, <a href="#Pg207" class="tei tei-ref">207</a>, <a href="#Pg231" class="tei tei-ref">231</a>, <a href="#Pg277" class="tei tei-ref">277</a>, <a href="#Pg292" class="tei tei-ref">292</a>, <a href="#Pg308" class="tei tei-ref">308</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Colombo: Realdo, anatomist, <a href="#Pg81" class="tei tei-ref">81</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Colonna: <br /> +Vittoria, Marchioness of Pescara, poetry, <a href="#Pg76" class="tei tei-ref">76</a>;<br /> +a Christ made for her, <a href="#Pg74" class="tei tei-ref">74</a>;<br /> +the master is enamoured of her divine spirit, <a href="#Pg85" class="tei tei-ref">85</a>;<br /> +visits her death-bed, <a href="#Pg85" class="tei tei-ref">85</a>;<br /> +drawings and sonnets for her, <a href="#Pg230" class="tei tei-ref">230</a>, <a href="#Pg234" class="tei tei-ref">234</a>;<br /> +conversations at St. Silvester, <a href="#Pg271" class="tei tei-ref">271</a>-<a href="#Pg304" class="tei tei-ref">304</a>, <a href="#Pg306" class="tei tei-ref">306</a>-<a href="#Pg308" class="tei tei-ref">308</a>, <a href="#Pg312" class="tei tei-ref">312</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Colossus: a proposed, <a href="#Pg198" class="tei tei-ref">198</a>, <a href="#Pg199" class="tei tei-ref">199</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Condivi: Ascanio della Ripa, the Life by, <a href="#Pg3" class="tei tei-ref">3</a>-93, <a href="#Pg163" class="tei tei-ref">163</a>, <a href="#Pg164" class="tei tei-ref">164</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Connétable: de Montmorenci, and the Slaves, <a href="#Pg227" class="tei tei-ref">227</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Consiglio: a mercer, <a href="#Pg110" class="tei tei-ref">110</a>, <a href="#Pg111" class="tei tei-ref">111</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Consiglio: Cartoon for the Sala del, <a href="#Pg37" class="tei tei-ref">37</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Constantinople: <br /> +the designs to throw a bridge from Pera to, <a href="#Pg37" class="tei tei-ref">37</a>;<br /> +is invited to, <a href="#Pg78" class="tei tei-ref">78</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Contemplative Life: Tomb of Julius II., <a href="#Pg28" class="tei tei-ref">28</a>, <a href="#Pg225" class="tei tei-ref">225</a>-<a href="#Pg227" class="tei tei-ref">227</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Contracts: <br /> +for the Madonna della Pietà of St. Peter's, <a href="#Pg112" class="tei tei-ref">112</a>;<br /> +the David, <a href="#Pg115" class="tei tei-ref">115</a>;<br /> +and the Risen Christ, <a href="#Pg180" class="tei tei-ref">180</a>, <a href="#Pg181" class="tei tei-ref">181</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Conversion of St. Paul, <a href="#Pg232" class="tei tei-ref">232</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Cornelia: wife of Urbino, <a href="#Pg256" class="tei tei-ref">256</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Correggio: perfected Melozzo's method, <a href="#Pg131" class="tei tei-ref">131</a>, <a href="#Pg172" class="tei tei-ref">172</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Cortono: Cardinal, <a href="#Pg201" class="tei tei-ref">201</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Cosimo: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Medici<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Cosmo: St., <a href="#Pg194" class="tei tei-ref">194</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Creation: <br /> +the, <a href="#Pg164" class="tei tei-ref">164</a>, <a href="#Pg165" class="tei tei-ref">165</a>, <a href="#Pg167" class="tei tei-ref">167</a>, <a href="#Pg170" class="tei tei-ref">170</a>;<br /> +of Eve, <a href="#Pg171" class="tei tei-ref">171</a>, <a href="#Pg175" class="tei tei-ref">175</a>, <a href="#Pg291" class="tei tei-ref">291</a>;<br /> +of man, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Adam<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Creator: the, Sistine Chapel, <a href="#Pg43" class="tei tei-ref">43</a>, <a href="#Pg44" class="tei tei-ref">44</a>, <a href="#Pg171" class="tei tei-ref">171</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Crispo: Cardinal, <a href="#Pg84" class="tei tei-ref">84</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Croce: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Santa Croce<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Cronaca: Il, <a href="#Pg116" class="tei tei-ref">116</a>, <a href="#Pg120" class="tei tei-ref">120</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Crucifixion: <br /> +in wood for Santo Spirito, <a href="#Pg16" class="tei tei-ref">16</a>;<br /> +drawings, <a href="#Pg234" class="tei tei-ref">234</a>;<br /> +by Daniele, <a href="#Pg253" class="tei tei-ref">253</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Cuio: Capitano, the master sups with, <a href="#Pg197" class="tei tei-ref">197</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Cupid: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Love<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Damino: St., <a href="#Pg194" class="tei tei-ref">194</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Dandolo: Marco, opinion of Baglioni, <a href="#Pg203" class="tei tei-ref">203</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Daniele da Volterra, <a href="#Pg223" class="tei tei-ref">223</a>, <a href="#Pg251" class="tei tei-ref">251</a>-<a href="#Pg253" class="tei tei-ref">253</a>;<br /> +writes for the master and acts as executor, <a href="#Pg257" class="tei tei-ref">257</a>-<a href="#Pg259" class="tei tei-ref">259</a>, <a href="#Pg263" class="tei tei-ref">263</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Dante, <a href="#Pg19" class="tei tei-ref">19</a>, <a href="#Pg68" class="tei tei-ref">68</a>, <a href="#Pg71" class="tei tei-ref">71</a>;<br /> +the master's special devotion to, <a href="#Pg86" class="tei tei-ref">86</a>, <a href="#Pg184" class="tei tei-ref">184</a>, <a href="#Pg220" class="tei tei-ref">220</a><br /></p> + + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page338">[pg 338]</span><a name="Pg338" id="Pg338" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Danti: Vincenzio, <a href="#Pg229" class="tei tei-ref">229</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">David and Goliath: Sistine Chapel, <a href="#Pg46" class="tei tei-ref">46</a>, <a href="#Pg178" class="tei tei-ref">178</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">David: <br /> +the bronze, <a href="#Pg28" class="tei tei-ref">28</a>, <a href="#Pg119" class="tei tei-ref">119</a>;<br /> +sent to France, <a href="#Pg120" class="tei tei-ref">120</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">David: <br /> +the colossal statue, <a href="#Pg27" class="tei tei-ref">27</a>, <a href="#Pg114" class="tei tei-ref">114</a>;<br /> +the contract, <a href="#Pg115" class="tei tei-ref">115</a>;<br /> +contemporary account of the transport, <a href="#Pg116" class="tei tei-ref">116</a>;<br /> +removed to the Academy, <a href="#Pg117" class="tei tei-ref">117</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Dawn: marble statue in the New Sacristy, <a href="#Pg172" class="tei tei-ref">172</a>, <a href="#Pg194" class="tei tei-ref">194</a>, <a href="#Pg203" class="tei tei-ref">203</a>, <a href="#Pg209" class="tei tei-ref">209</a>, <a href="#Pg211" class="tei tei-ref">211</a>, <a href="#Pg214" class="tei tei-ref">214</a>, <a href="#Pg293" class="tei tei-ref">293</a>.<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Day: marble statue in the New Sacristy, <a href="#Pg58" class="tei tei-ref">58</a>, <a href="#Pg194" class="tei tei-ref">194</a>, <a href="#Pg203" class="tei tei-ref">203</a>, <a href="#Pg209" class="tei tei-ref">209</a>, <a href="#Pg212" class="tei tei-ref">212</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Day of Judgment: <br /> +Sistine Chapel, <a href="#Pg45" class="tei tei-ref">45</a>, <a href="#Pg166" class="tei tei-ref">166</a>, <a href="#Pg183" class="tei tei-ref">183</a>;<br /> +the fresco begun, <a href="#Pg216" class="tei tei-ref">216</a>;<br /> +shown to the public, <a href="#Pg219" class="tei tei-ref">219</a>;<br /> +described, <a href="#Pg219" class="tei tei-ref">219</a>;<br /> +copies in the Corsini Palace, <a href="#Pg222" class="tei tei-ref">222</a>, <br /> +and in the Naples Museum, <a href="#Pg253" class="tei tei-ref">253</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Death: the master's sayings on, <a href="#Pg236" class="tei tei-ref">236</a>, <a href="#Pg236" class="tei tei-ref">236</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Deianira: the rape of, a bas-relief, <a href="#Pg14" class="tei tei-ref">14</a>, <a href="#Pg103" class="tei tei-ref">103</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Deliverances of the Chosen People, <a href="#Pg166" class="tei tei-ref">166</a>, <a href="#Pg169" class="tei tei-ref">169</a>, <a href="#Pg178" class="tei tei-ref">178</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Delphic Sibyl, <a href="#Pg174" class="tei tei-ref">174</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Deluge: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Flood<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Demosthenes, <a href="#Pg75" class="tei tei-ref">75</a>, <a href="#Pg298" class="tei tei-ref">298</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Deposition: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Pietà<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Design: the power of, <a href="#Pg295" class="tei tei-ref">295</a>-<a href="#Pg298" class="tei tei-ref">298</a>, <a href="#Pg308" class="tei tei-ref">308</a>-<a href="#Pg311" class="tei tei-ref">311</a>, <a href="#Pg322" class="tei tei-ref">322</a>.<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Desnoyers: orders the destruction of the Leda, <a href="#Pg62" class="tei tei-ref">62</a>, <a href="#Pg204" class="tei tei-ref">204</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Diocletian: the Baths of, a restoration, <a href="#Pg251" class="tei tei-ref">251</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Diognetus, <a href="#Pg286" class="tei tei-ref">286</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Diomede Leoni: letter to Leonardo, <a href="#Pg257" class="tei tei-ref">257</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Dionigi: Cardinal di, orders a Pietà, <a href="#Pg25" class="tei tei-ref">25</a>, <a href="#Pg112" class="tei tei-ref">112</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Diploma Gallery: Burlington House, the tondo, <a href="#Pg121" class="tei tei-ref">121</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Divina Commedia: the master's drawings for, <a href="#Pg184" class="tei tei-ref">184</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Dome of St. Peter's, <a href="#Pg208" class="tei tei-ref">208</a>, <a href="#Pg233" class="tei tei-ref">233</a>, <a href="#Pg246" class="tei tei-ref">246</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Domenico: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Ghirlandaio<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Domenico: San, Bologna, The Angel for the Shrine, <a href="#Pg19" class="tei tei-ref">19</a>, <a href="#Pg104" class="tei tei-ref">104</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Donatello: <br /> +praised by the master, <a href="#Pg28" class="tei tei-ref">28</a>,<br /> +who comes under the influence of his foreman, <a href="#Pg99" class="tei tei-ref">99</a>, <a href="#Pg106" class="tei tei-ref">106</a>;<br /> +St. George, and Judith, <a href="#Pg117" class="tei tei-ref">117</a>;<br /> +his influence, <a href="#Pg118" class="tei tei-ref">118</a>, <a href="#Pg170" class="tei tei-ref">170</a>, <a href="#Pg178" class="tei tei-ref">178</a>, <a href="#Pg295" class="tei tei-ref">295</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Donati: Federigo, physician, <a href="#Pg258" class="tei tei-ref">258</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Donato: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Giannoti<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Doni: Agnolo, the tondo painted for, <a href="#Pg29" class="tei tei-ref">29</a>, <a href="#Pg122" class="tei tei-ref">122</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Doria: <br /> +Andrea, project for his statue <a href="#Pg190" class="tei tei-ref">190</a>;<br /> +his portrait by Sebastiano, <a href="#Pg191" class="tei tei-ref">191</a>, <a href="#Pg291" class="tei tei-ref">291</a>, <a href="#Pg313" class="tei tei-ref">313</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Dosso, <a href="#Pg290" class="tei tei-ref">290</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Drawing: <br /> +Ghirlandaio's book, <a href="#Pg8" class="tei tei-ref">8</a>;<br /> +copies of old masters, <a href="#Pg9" class="tei tei-ref">9</a>;<br /> +for the tombs of the Medici, <a href="#Pg193" class="tei tei-ref">193</a>;<br /> +its power, <a href="#Pg295" class="tei tei-ref">295</a>-<a href="#Pg297" class="tei tei-ref">297</a>;<br /> +in war, <a href="#Pg308" class="tei tei-ref">308</a>,<br /> +and in peace, <a href="#Pg311" class="tei tei-ref">311</a>, <a href="#Pg322" class="tei tei-ref">322</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Duccio: Agostino, and the block of marble, <a href="#Pg27" class="tei tei-ref">27</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Duke of Florence, <a href="#Pg246" class="tei tei-ref">246</a>, <a href="#Pg248" class="tei tei-ref">248</a>, <a href="#Pg250" class="tei tei-ref">250</a>, <a href="#Pg259" class="tei tei-ref">259</a>, <a href="#Pg260" class="tei tei-ref">260</a>, <a href="#Pg262" class="tei tei-ref">262</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Duoino of Florence: <br /> +the shadow of, <a href="#Pg127" class="tei tei-ref">127</a>, <a href="#Pg208" class="tei tei-ref">208</a>;<br /> +the Pietà, placed under, <a href="#Pg236" class="tei tei-ref">236</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Dürer: Albert, <a href="#Pg29" class="tei tei-ref">29</a>, <a href="#Pg81" class="tei tei-ref">81</a>, <a href="#Pg281" class="tei tei-ref">281</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ecouen: the slaves at, <a href="#Pg227" class="tei tei-ref">227</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Enrico II., <a href="#Pg3" class="tei tei-ref">3</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Epiphany: a cartoon, <a href="#Pg260" class="tei tei-ref">260</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ercole: Don, captain of Florence, <a href="#Pg61" class="tei tei-ref">61</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Esi, <a href="#Pg291" class="tei tei-ref">291</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Esther: Queen, <a href="#Pg46" class="tei tei-ref">46</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Euclid, <a href="#Pg75" class="tei tei-ref">75</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Eve, <a href="#Pg43" class="tei tei-ref">43</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Evening, <a href="#Pg194" class="tei tei-ref">194</a>, <a href="#Pg203" class="tei tei-ref">203</a>, <a href="#Pg209" class="tei tei-ref">209</a>, <a href="#Pg214" class="tei tei-ref">214</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Expulsion, <a href="#Pg172" class="tei tei-ref">172</a>, <a href="#Pg175" class="tei tei-ref">175</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Façade of San Lorenzo, <a href="#Pg183" class="tei tei-ref">183</a>, <a href="#Pg185" class="tei tei-ref">185</a>, <a href="#Pg227" class="tei tei-ref">227</a>, <a href="#Pg228" class="tei tei-ref">228</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Fall of Man: Sistine Chapel, <a href="#Pg43" class="tei tei-ref">43</a>, <a href="#Pg164" class="tei tei-ref">164</a>, <a href="#Pg165" class="tei tei-ref">165</a>, <a href="#Pg170" class="tei tei-ref">170</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Farnese Palace: the cornice, <a href="#Pg233" class="tei tei-ref">233</a>, <a href="#Pg237" class="tei tei-ref">237</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Farnese: the House of, the master's love for, <a href="#Pg84" class="tei tei-ref">84</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Father of the master: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Lodovico<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Fattore: Il, <a href="#Pg256" class="tei tei-ref">256</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Fattuci: <br /> +Ser Giovan Francesco, letters to, <a href="#Pg133" class="tei tei-ref">133</a>, <a href="#Pg143" class="tei tei-ref">143</a>, <a href="#Pg191" class="tei tei-ref">191</a>, <a href="#Pg193" class="tei tei-ref">193</a>, <a href="#Pg195" class="tei tei-ref">195</a>, <a href="#Pg199" class="tei tei-ref">199</a>, <a href="#Pg242" class="tei tei-ref">242</a>;<br /> +he rebukes the master for his modesty, <a href="#Pg192" class="tei tei-ref">192</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Faun: <br /> +a copy in marble, <a href="#Pg10" class="tei tei-ref">10</a>;<br /> +the Mask in the Bargello, <a href="#Pg11" class="tei tei-ref">11</a>, note;<br /> +a drawing in the Louvre, <a href="#Pg98" class="tei tei-ref">98</a>, note<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Febbre: Madonna della, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Madonna<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Fernando di Gonzaga: Signer, <a href="#Pg205" class="tei tei-ref">205</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Femes: Cardinal, <a href="#Pg270" class="tei tei-ref">270</a>, <a href="#Pg313" class="tei tei-ref">313</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ferrara: the master visits the fortifications, <a href="#Pg60" class="tei tei-ref">60</a>, <a href="#Pg202" class="tei tei-ref">202</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ferrara: <br /> +Duke of, disposes of the Colossal Bronze, <a href="#Pg141" class="tei tei-ref">141</a>;<br /> +the master's visit to, <a href="#Pg202" class="tei tei-ref">202</a>, <a href="#Pg290" class="tei tei-ref">290</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Festa: Constanza, sets the master's madrigals to music, <a href="#Pg208" class="tei tei-ref">208</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ficino: Masilio, <a href="#Pg102" class="tei tei-ref">102</a><br /></p> + + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page339">[pg 339]</span><a name="Pg339" id="Pg339" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Fidelissimi: Gherardo, physician, <a href="#Pg258" class="tei tei-ref">258</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Fight for the Standard: Leonardo da Vinci's cartoon, <a href="#Pg124" class="tei tei-ref">124</a>, <a href="#Pg127" class="tei tei-ref">127</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Figio Vanni: Battista, Pope's agent, <a href="#Pg203" class="tei tei-ref">203</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Filippiuo: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Lippi<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Flanders: the master's opinion of the painting of, <a href="#Pg279" class="tei tei-ref">279</a>-<a href="#Pg281" class="tei tei-ref">281</a>, <a href="#Pg324" class="tei tei-ref">324</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Flood: the, Sistine Chapel, <a href="#Pg44" class="tei tei-ref">44</a>, <a href="#Pg46" class="tei tei-ref">46</a>, <a href="#Pg165" class="tei tei-ref">165</a>, <a href="#Pg167" class="tei tei-ref">167</a>, <a href="#Pg170" class="tei tei-ref">170</a>-<a href="#Pg173" class="tei tei-ref">173</a>, <a href="#Pg214" class="tei tei-ref">214</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Florence, <a href="#Pg3" class="tei tei-ref">3</a>-6, <a href="#Pg15" class="tei tei-ref">15</a>-20, <a href="#Pg22" class="tei tei-ref">22</a>-29, <a href="#Pg36" class="tei tei-ref">36</a>, <a href="#Pg37" class="tei tei-ref">37</a>, <a href="#Pg50" class="tei tei-ref">50</a>, <a href="#Pg51" class="tei tei-ref">51</a>;<br /> +siege of, <a href="#Pg56" class="tei tei-ref">56</a>, <a href="#Pg201" class="tei tei-ref">201</a>;<br /> +is betrayed, <a href="#Pg57" class="tei tei-ref">57</a>, <a href="#Pg203" class="tei tei-ref">203</a>; <a href="#Pg62" class="tei tei-ref">62</a>;<br /> +gossip, <a href="#Pg97" class="tei tei-ref">97</a>; <a href="#Pg106" class="tei tei-ref">106</a>-<a href="#Pg114" class="tei tei-ref">114</a>; <a href="#Pg130" class="tei tei-ref">130</a>; <a href="#Pg158" class="tei tei-ref">158</a>;<br /> +the master purchases land for a studio, <a href="#Pg184" class="tei tei-ref">184</a>, <a href="#Pg208" class="tei tei-ref">208</a>, <a href="#Pg253" class="tei tei-ref">253</a>-<a href="#Pg255" class="tei tei-ref">255</a>, <a href="#Pg260" class="tei tei-ref">260</a>, <a href="#Pg290" class="tei tei-ref">290</a>, <a href="#Pg293" class="tei tei-ref">293</a>, <a href="#Pg305" class="tei tei-ref">305</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Fontainebleau: the Leda at, <a href="#Pg204" class="tei tei-ref">204</a>, <a href="#Pg294" class="tei tei-ref">294</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Forli: Bishop of, Pier Giovanni, <a href="#Pg83" class="tei tei-ref">83</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Fortification: <br /> +the master made Commissary-General, <a href="#Pg55" class="tei tei-ref">55</a>;<br /> +the Borgo, <a href="#Pg238" class="tei tei-ref">238</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">France: <br /> +statue of Hercules sent to, <a href="#Pg14" class="tei tei-ref">14</a>;<br /> +painting in, <a href="#Pg294" class="tei tei-ref">294</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Francesca: daughter of Buonarroto, <a href="#Pg201" class="tei tei-ref">201</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Francesca: mother of the master, <a href="#Pg109" class="tei tei-ref">109</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Francesco d'Ollanda, <a href="#Pg269" class="tei tei-ref">269</a>-<a href="#Pg327" class="tei tei-ref">327</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Francesco: <br /> +San, a cartoon drawn for a barber, <a href="#Pg107" class="tei tei-ref">107</a>;<br /> +and another for Mineghella, <a href="#Pg264" class="tei tei-ref">264</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Francesco: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Bandini and Urbino<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Francesco: Urbino, da, schoolmaster, <a href="#Pg6" class="tei tei-ref">6</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Franciabigio: Il, studies the Cartoon, <a href="#Pg127" class="tei tei-ref">127</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Francia: Il, <a href="#Pg90" class="tei tei-ref">90</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Francis I.: <br /> +of France buys the Leda, <a href="#Pg62" class="tei tei-ref">62</a>;<br /> +invites the master to France, <a href="#Pg78" class="tei tei-ref">78</a>;<br /> +letter to, <a href="#Pg232" class="tei tei-ref">232</a>, <a href="#Pg294" class="tei tei-ref">294</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Frizzi: Frederigo, finishes the Risen Christ, <a href="#Pg188" class="tei tei-ref">188</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Gaeta: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Pier Luigi<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Galatea: by Raphael, <a href="#Pg292" class="tei tei-ref">292</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Galli: Jacopo, commissions the Bacchus, <a href="#Pg24" class="tei tei-ref">24</a>, <a href="#Pg107" class="tei tei-ref">107</a>, <a href="#Pg112" class="tei tei-ref">112</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Galli: owned the Bacchus and the little Cupid, <a href="#Pg25" class="tei tei-ref">25</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Gallio Subelloni, <a href="#Pg247" class="tei tei-ref">247</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Gallo: Antonio, <a href="#Pg226" class="tei tei-ref">226</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ganymede: a drawing, <a href="#Pg231" class="tei tei-ref">231</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Gatta: Bartolommeo della, <a href="#Pg166" class="tei tei-ref">166</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Gems: <br /> +engraved, shown to the master by the Magnificent, <a href="#Pg13" class="tei tei-ref">13</a>; <br /> +motives from intaglios, Adam, <a href="#Pg171" class="tei tei-ref">171</a>;<br /> +Judith, <a href="#Pg178" class="tei tei-ref">178</a>;<br /> +Leda, <a href="#Pg202" class="tei tei-ref">202</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Genoa: <br /> +the master proposes to retire to, <a href="#Pg66" class="tei tei-ref">66</a>;<br /> +the Senate orders a statue of Doria, <a href="#Pg190" class="tei tei-ref">190</a>;<br /> +the medallion, Albergo dei Poveri, <a href="#Pg237" class="tei tei-ref">237</a>, <a href="#Pg291" class="tei tei-ref">291</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">George: St., by Donatello, <a href="#Pg117" class="tei tei-ref">117</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Germany, <a href="#Pg200" class="tei tei-ref">200</a>, <a href="#Pg283" class="tei tei-ref">283</a>, <a href="#Pg291" class="tei tei-ref">291</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ghibelline, <a href="#Pg4" class="tei tei-ref">4</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ghiberti: Lorenzo, <a href="#Pg100" class="tei tei-ref">100</a>, <a href="#Pg170" class="tei tei-ref">170</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ghirlandaio: <br /> +Domenico, the master's first teacher, <a href="#Pg7" class="tei tei-ref">7</a>, <a href="#Pg8" class="tei tei-ref">8</a>, <a href="#Pg97" class="tei tei-ref">97</a>; <br /> +the master leaves him, <a href="#Pg10" class="tei tei-ref">10</a>, <a href="#Pg99" class="tei tei-ref">99</a>;<br /> +histories in the Sistine Chapel, <a href="#Pg166" class="tei tei-ref">166</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ghirlandaio: <br /> +Ridolfo, Vasari's gossip, <a href="#Pg97" class="tei tei-ref">97</a>;<br /> +worked from the Cartoon, <a href="#Pg126" class="tei tei-ref">126</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Giacomo del Duca: carves details on the Tomb of Julius II., <a href="#Pg226" class="tei tei-ref">226</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Giacomo della Porta, <a href="#Pg249" class="tei tei-ref">249</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Giangiacomo de' Medici: his monument at Milan, <a href="#Pg250" class="tei tei-ref">250</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Giannotti: Donato, a friend of the master's, <a href="#Pg85" class="tei tei-ref">85</a>, <a href="#Pg246" class="tei tei-ref">246</a>, <a href="#Pg249" class="tei tei-ref">249</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Giant: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> David<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Gié: Maréchal de, <a href="#Pg119" class="tei tei-ref">119</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Giorgio: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Vasari<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Giotto: studies from, <a href="#Pg105" class="tei tei-ref">105</a>, <a href="#Pg158" class="tei tei-ref">158</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Giovanni da Reggio, <a href="#Pg187" class="tei tei-ref">187</a>, <a href="#Pg188" class="tei tei-ref">188</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Giovanni da Udine, <a href="#Pg197" class="tei tei-ref">197</a>, <a href="#Pg290" class="tei tei-ref">290</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Giovanni dall' Opera, <a href="#Pg262" class="tei tei-ref">262</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Giovanni de' Marchesi: stone-carver, <a href="#Pg224" class="tei tei-ref">224</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Giovanni de' Medici, <a href="#Pg17" class="tei tei-ref">17</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Giovanni: a gem-engraver, <a href="#Pg231" class="tei tei-ref">231</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Giovanni: San, in Laterano, <a href="#Pg320" class="tei tei-ref">320</a>, <a href="#Pg321" class="tei tei-ref">321</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Giovanni: Michi, <a href="#Pg150" class="tei tei-ref">150</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Giovanni: San, dei Fiorentini, designs for, <a href="#Pg248" class="tei tei-ref">248</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Giovannino: San, a, <a href="#Pg106" class="tei tei-ref">106</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Giovan Simone: <br /> +joins Buonarroto in the cloth business, <a href="#Pg109" class="tei tei-ref">109</a>, <a href="#Pg133" class="tei tei-ref">133</a>, <a href="#Pg135" class="tei tei-ref">135</a>;<br /> +his behaviour troubles the master, <a href="#Pg151" class="tei tei-ref">151</a>;<br /> +a letter to him, <a href="#Pg153" class="tei tei-ref">153</a>;<br /> +he begins to do well, <a href="#Pg162" class="tei tei-ref">162</a>;<br /> +death, <a href="#Pg254" class="tei tei-ref">254</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Girolamo da Fano: retouches the Day of Judgment, <a href="#Pg223" class="tei tei-ref">223</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Gismondo: <br /> +to join Buonarroto, <a href="#Pg152" class="tei tei-ref">152</a>;<br /> +visits Rome, <a href="#Pg161" class="tei tei-ref">161</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Giugni: Galeotto, envoy, <a href="#Pg202" class="tei tei-ref">202</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Giulia: La, the cannon cast from the wreck of the Bronze, <a href="#Pg141" class="tei tei-ref">141</a>, <a href="#Pg202" class="tei tei-ref">202</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Giulia: the Villa, works ordered by Julius III., <a href="#Pg78" class="tei tei-ref">78</a>, <a href="#Pg292" class="tei tei-ref">292</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Giuliano: a marble statue in the New Sacristy, <a href="#Pg193" class="tei tei-ref">193</a>, <a href="#Pg194" class="tei tei-ref">194</a>, <a href="#Pg211" class="tei tei-ref">211</a>, <a href="#Pg212" class="tei tei-ref">212</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Giuliano de' Medici: his courtesy, <a href="#Pg17" class="tei tei-ref">17</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Giulio Romano, <a href="#Pg290" class="tei tei-ref">290</a>, <a href="#Pg293" class="tei tei-ref">293</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Gondi: the bank of, <a href="#Pg78" class="tei tei-ref">78</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Gondi: Filippo, hides his goods, <a href="#Pg201" class="tei tei-ref">201</a><br /></p> + + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page340">[pg 340]</span><a name="Pg340" id="Pg340" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Gondi: Giambattista, <a href="#Pg251" class="tei tei-ref">251</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Gonfaloniere: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Soderini<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Gottifredo, <a href="#Pg3" class="tei tei-ref">3</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Granacci: <br /> +Francesco, <a href="#Pg7" class="tei tei-ref">7</a>, <a href="#Pg9" class="tei tei-ref">9</a>, <a href="#Pg11" class="tei tei-ref">11</a>, <a href="#Pg98" class="tei tei-ref">98</a>, <a href="#Pg99" class="tei tei-ref">99</a>;<br /> +studies the Cartoon, <a href="#Pg126" class="tei tei-ref">126</a>;<br /> +helps to provide assistants, his letter, <a href="#Pg149" class="tei tei-ref">149</a>, <a href="#Pg151" class="tei tei-ref">151</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Grand Canal: a design for a bridge, <a href="#Pg74" class="tei tei-ref">74</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Grotesque, <a href="#Pg316" class="tei tei-ref">316</a>-<a href="#Pg318" class="tei tei-ref">318</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Guelph, <a href="#Pg4" class="tei tei-ref">4</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Guidobaldo: Duke of Urbino own's the god of Love, <a href="#Pg23" class="tei tei-ref">23</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Guidoccione, <a href="#Pg76" class="tei tei-ref">76</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Haarlem: drawings in the Teyler Museum, <a href="#Pg253" class="tei tei-ref">253</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Hawkwood: Sir John, <a href="#Pg124" class="tei tei-ref">124</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Henry II.: of France, <a href="#Pg251" class="tei tei-ref">251</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Hercules: a marble statue, <a href="#Pg14" class="tei tei-ref">14</a>, <a href="#Pg105" class="tei tei-ref">105</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Hercules and Cacus, <a href="#Pg204" class="tei tei-ref">204</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Hercules strangling Antæus: a wax model, <a href="#Pg252" class="tei tei-ref">252</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Holkham Hall: Cartoon at, <a href="#Pg38" class="tei tei-ref">38</a>, <a href="#Pg124" class="tei tei-ref">124</a>, <a href="#Pg125" class="tei tei-ref">125</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Holy Family with Shepherds, the, <a href="#Pg122" class="tei tei-ref">122</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Homer, <a href="#Pg76" class="tei tei-ref">76</a>, <a href="#Pg78" class="tei tei-ref">78</a>, <a href="#Pg173" class="tei tei-ref">173</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Human form: the master's love for the beauty of, <a href="#Pg87" class="tei tei-ref">87</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Imitators of the master, <a href="#Pg263" class="tei tei-ref">263</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Indaco: <br /> +Jacopo L', assistant, <a href="#Pg150" class="tei tei-ref">150</a>, <a href="#Pg155" class="tei tei-ref">155</a>;<br /> +he grumbles, <a href="#Pg157" class="tei tei-ref">157</a>, <a href="#Pg264" class="tei tei-ref">264</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Inscriptions, <a href="#Pg262" class="tei tei-ref">262</a>, <a href="#Pg263" class="tei tei-ref">263</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Intaglio: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Gems<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ippolito de' Medici, <a href="#Pg201" class="tei tei-ref">201</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Isaiah: by Raphael, <a href="#Pg177" class="tei tei-ref">177</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Italian painting; the master's opinion of, <a href="#Pg280" class="tei tei-ref">280</a>, <a href="#Pg281" class="tei tei-ref">281</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Jacopo del Conte, <a href="#Pg252" class="tei tei-ref">252</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Jacopo della Quercia: studied by the master, <a href="#Pg136" class="tei tei-ref">136</a>, <a href="#Pg170" class="tei tei-ref">170</a>, <a href="#Pg171" class="tei tei-ref">171</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Jacopo di Sandro: an assistant, <a href="#Pg151" class="tei tei-ref">151</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Jacopo: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Galli, L'Indaco, Sansovino<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Jean: makes a model of the Dome, <a href="#Pg247" class="tei tei-ref">247</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Jeremiah: the Prophet, <a href="#Pg174" class="tei tei-ref">174</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Joel, <a href="#Pg174" class="tei tei-ref">174</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Jonah, <a href="#Pg221" class="tei tei-ref">221</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Judith, <a href="#Pg13" class="tei tei-ref">13</a>, <a href="#Pg46" class="tei tei-ref">46</a>, <a href="#Pg178" class="tei tei-ref">178</a>; <br /> +of Donatello, <a href="#Pg117" class="tei tei-ref">117</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Julius II.: <br /> +Pope, calls the master to Rome and orders his Tomb, <a href="#Pg28" class="tei tei-ref">28</a>-30, <a href="#Pg128" class="tei tei-ref">128</a>, <a href="#Pg129" class="tei tei-ref">129</a>;<br /> +offends the master, <a href="#Pg35" class="tei tei-ref">35</a>, <a href="#Pg38" class="tei tei-ref">38</a>, <a href="#Pg130" class="tei tei-ref">130</a>;<br /> +the Colossal Bronze for Bologna, <a href="#Pg40" class="tei tei-ref">40</a>, <a href="#Pg130" class="tei tei-ref">130</a>, <a href="#Pg132" class="tei tei-ref">132</a>, <a href="#Pg134" class="tei tei-ref">134</a>; <br /> +it is placed on San Petronio, but is destroyed by the mob and made into a cannon, <a href="#Pg141" class="tei tei-ref">141</a>; <br /> +orders the Vault of the Sistine Chapel to be painted, <a href="#Pg48" class="tei tei-ref">48</a>, <a href="#Pg50" class="tei tei-ref">50</a>, <a href="#Pg164" class="tei tei-ref">164</a>;<br /> +the master's love for him, <a href="#Pg62" class="tei tei-ref">62</a>;<br /> +and his house, <a href="#Pg69" class="tei tei-ref">69</a>, <a href="#Pg77" class="tei tei-ref">77</a>;<br /> +he is satisfied, <a href="#Pg165" class="tei tei-ref">165</a>, <a href="#Pg179" class="tei tei-ref">179</a>;<br /> +death, <a href="#Pg180" class="tei tei-ref">180</a>, <a href="#Pg195" class="tei tei-ref">195</a>, <a href="#Pg202" class="tei tei-ref">202</a>;<br /> +the Tragedy of the Tomb of, <a href="#Pg216" class="tei tei-ref">216</a>, <a href="#Pg224" class="tei tei-ref">224</a>, <a href="#Pg226" class="tei tei-ref">226</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Julius III.: <br /> +Pope, <a href="#Pg63" class="tei tei-ref">63</a>; <br /> +a patron of the Arts and of the master, <a href="#Pg78" class="tei tei-ref">78</a>, <a href="#Pg80" class="tei tei-ref">80</a>, <a href="#Pg83" class="tei tei-ref">83</a>, <a href="#Pg235" class="tei tei-ref">235</a>, <a href="#Pg242" class="tei tei-ref">242</a>;<br /> +confirms the master in his office, <a href="#Pg244" class="tei tei-ref">244</a>; <br /> +death, <a href="#Pg245" class="tei tei-ref">245</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Julius Cæsar, <a href="#Pg310" class="tei tei-ref">310</a>, <a href="#Pg315" class="tei tei-ref">315</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">King of France gives the Slaves to Montmorenci, <a href="#Pg227" class="tei tei-ref">227</a>, <br /> +and <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Francis I.<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lactancio Tolomei, <a href="#Pg271" class="tei tei-ref">271</a>-<a href="#Pg322" class="tei tei-ref">322</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lana: Consuls of the Arte della, <a href="#Pg115" class="tei tei-ref">115</a>, <a href="#Pg120" class="tei tei-ref">120</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lantern: of the New Sacristy, <a href="#Pg192" class="tei tei-ref">192</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lapo Antonio di Lapo: <br /> +assistant at Bologna, <a href="#Pg133" class="tei tei-ref">133</a>;<br /> +is dismissed, <a href="#Pg134" class="tei tei-ref">134</a>; <a href="#Pg136" class="tei tei-ref">136</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Last Judgment: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Day of Judgment<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Leda: <br /> +the, motive from a gem, <a href="#Pg13" class="tei tei-ref">13</a>, note;<br /> +painted for the Duke of Ferrara but sent to France, <a href="#Pg61" class="tei tei-ref">61</a>, <a href="#Pg202" class="tei tei-ref">202</a>, <a href="#Pg204" class="tei tei-ref">204</a>, <a href="#Pg214" class="tei tei-ref">214</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Leghorn, <a href="#Pg184" class="tei tei-ref">184</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Leicester: the Earl of, his cartoon at Holkham, <a href="#Pg125" class="tei tei-ref">125</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lenoir: M., purchases the Slaves for France, <a href="#Pg227" class="tei tei-ref">227</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Leo X.: <br /> +Pope, <a href="#Pg4" class="tei tei-ref">4</a>, <a href="#Pg5" class="tei tei-ref">5</a>, <a href="#Pg10" class="tei tei-ref">10</a>; <br /> +orders the façade of San Lorenzo, <a href="#Pg51" class="tei tei-ref">51</a>;<br /> +his fervour spent, <a href="#Pg54" class="tei tei-ref">54</a>, <a href="#Pg78" class="tei tei-ref">78</a>, <a href="#Pg182" class="tei tei-ref">182</a>-<a href="#Pg185" class="tei tei-ref">185</a>;<br /> +death, <a href="#Pg190" class="tei tei-ref">190</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Leone Leoni: <br /> +the monument at Milan, <a href="#Pg250" class="tei tei-ref">250</a>;<br /> +his medal of the master, <a href="#Pg252" class="tei tei-ref">252</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Letters: <br /> +from, <br /> +Catherine de' Medici, <a href="#Pg251" class="tei tei-ref">251</a>;<br /> +Duke of Camerino, <a href="#Pg217" class="tei tei-ref">217</a>; <br /> +Francesco Granacci, <a href="#Pg149" class="tei tei-ref">149</a>;<br /> +Lodovico, <a href="#Pg111" class="tei tei-ref">111</a>;<br /> +Pietro Roselli, <a href="#Pg130" class="tei tei-ref">130</a>;<br /> +Sebastiano, <a href="#Pg185" class="tei tei-ref">185</a>, <a href="#Pg186" class="tei tei-ref">186</a>, <a href="#Pg187" class="tei tei-ref">187</a>, <a href="#Pg188" class="tei tei-ref">188</a>, <a href="#Pg205" class="tei tei-ref">205</a>;<br /> +Tomaso del Cavalieri, <a href="#Pg231" class="tei tei-ref">231</a>.<br /> +From the master to, <br /> +Amanati, <a href="#Pg238" class="tei tei-ref">238</a>;<br /> +Buonarroto, <a href="#Pg133" class="tei tei-ref">133</a>, <a href="#Pg134" class="tei tei-ref">134</a>, <a href="#Pg136" class="tei tei-ref">136</a>, <a href="#Pg137" class="tei tei-ref">137</a>, <a href="#Pg138" class="tei tei-ref">138</a>, <a href="#Pg139" class="tei tei-ref">139</a>, <a href="#Pg140" class="tei tei-ref">140</a>, <a href="#Pg141" class="tei tei-ref">141</a>, <a href="#Pg161" class="tei tei-ref">161</a>, <a href="#Pg162" class="tei tei-ref">162</a>, <a href="#Pg181" class="tei tei-ref">181</a>;<br /> +Cardinal Carpi, <a href="#Pg241" class="tei tei-ref">241</a>;<br /> +Fattucci, + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page341">[pg 341]</span><a name="Pg341" id="Pg341" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><a href="#Pg133" class="tei tei-ref">133</a>, <a href="#Pg143" class="tei tei-ref">143</a>, <a href="#Pg191" class="tei tei-ref">191</a>, <a href="#Pg193" class="tei tei-ref">193</a>, <a href="#Pg195" class="tei tei-ref">195</a>, <a href="#Pg199" class="tei tei-ref">199</a>, <a href="#Pg242" class="tei tei-ref">242</a>;<br /> +Francis I., <a href="#Pg232" class="tei tei-ref">232</a>; <br /> +Giovansimone, <a href="#Pg153" class="tei tei-ref">153</a>;<br /> +Lionardo, his nephew, <a href="#Pg246" class="tei tei-ref">246</a>, <a href="#Pg248" class="tei tei-ref">248</a>, <a href="#Pg254" class="tei tei-ref">254</a>, <a href="#Pg257" class="tei tei-ref">257</a>;<br /> +Lodovico, <a href="#Pg110" class="tei tei-ref">110</a>-<a href="#Pg112" class="tei tei-ref">112</a>, <a href="#Pg135" class="tei tei-ref">135</a>, <a href="#Pg151" class="tei tei-ref">151</a>, <a href="#Pg156" class="tei tei-ref">156</a>, <a href="#Pg159" class="tei tei-ref">159</a>, <a href="#Pg164" class="tei tei-ref">164</a>;<br /> +Lorenzo di' Pierfrancesco, <a href="#Pg23" class="tei tei-ref">23</a>;<br /> +nephew of Pope Paul, <a href="#Pg242" class="tei tei-ref">242</a>;<br /> +Sebastiano, <a href="#Pg197" class="tei tei-ref">197</a>;<br /> +Spina, <a href="#Pg194" class="tei tei-ref">194</a>;<br /> +Topolino, <a href="#Pg190" class="tei tei-ref">190</a>;<br /> +Vasari, <a href="#Pg245" class="tei tei-ref">245</a>, <a href="#Pg255" class="tei tei-ref">255</a>.<br /> +From Diomede Leoni to Lionardo, <a href="#Pg257" class="tei tei-ref">257</a>;<br /> +from Tiberio Calcagni to Lionardo, <a href="#Pg257" class="tei tei-ref">257</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Library: Medici, ordered by Clement VII., <a href="#Pg54" class="tei tei-ref">54</a>, <a href="#Pg197" class="tei tei-ref">197</a>, <a href="#Pg250" class="tei tei-ref">250</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Libyan Sibyl, <a href="#Pg174" class="tei tei-ref">174</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Light separated from Darkness, Sistine Chapel, <a href="#Pg170" class="tei tei-ref">170</a>, <a href="#Pg174" class="tei tei-ref">174</a>, <a href="#Pg176" class="tei tei-ref">176</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lignano: Antommaria, banks money for the Colossal Bronze, <a href="#Pg40" class="tei tei-ref">40</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lionardo da Vinci, <a href="#Pg116" class="tei tei-ref">116</a>; <br /> +his cartoon, <a href="#Pg124" class="tei tei-ref">124</a>, <a href="#Pg209" class="tei tei-ref">209</a>, <a href="#Pg327" class="tei tei-ref">327</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lionardo di Compago: saddle-maker, <a href="#Pg184" class="tei tei-ref">184</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lionardo: <br /> +nephew of the master, <a href="#Pg104" class="tei tei-ref">104</a>;<br /> +letters to, <a href="#Pg246" class="tei tei-ref">246</a>, <a href="#Pg248" class="tei tei-ref">248</a>, <a href="#Pg254" class="tei tei-ref">254</a>, <a href="#Pg257" class="tei tei-ref">257</a>;<br /> +marries Cassandra, <a href="#Pg254" class="tei tei-ref">254</a>;<br /> +receives news of the master's illness, <a href="#Pg257" class="tei tei-ref">257</a>;<br /> +and death, <a href="#Pg260" class="tei tei-ref">260</a>;<br /> +orders Vasari to design the Tomb, <a href="#Pg262" class="tei tei-ref">262</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lippi: Filippino, <a href="#Pg116" class="tei tei-ref">116</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lodovico del Buono: founder, assists the master at Bologna, <a href="#Pg133" class="tei tei-ref">133</a>, <a href="#Pg134" class="tei tei-ref">134</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lodorico di Leonardo Buonarroti Simoni, <br /> +father of the master, <a href="#Pg5" class="tei tei-ref">5</a>, <a href="#Pg7" class="tei tei-ref">7</a>, <a href="#Pg11" class="tei tei-ref">11</a>, <a href="#Pg13" class="tei tei-ref">13</a>, <a href="#Pg15" class="tei tei-ref">15</a>, <a href="#Pg109" class="tei tei-ref">109</a>;<br /> +letters to, <a href="#Pg110" class="tei tei-ref">110</a>, <a href="#Pg111" class="tei tei-ref">111</a>, <a href="#Pg112" class="tei tei-ref">112</a>, <a href="#Pg135" class="tei tei-ref">135</a>, <a href="#Pg137" class="tei tei-ref">137</a>, <a href="#Pg151" class="tei tei-ref">151</a>, <a href="#Pg156" class="tei tei-ref">156</a>, <a href="#Pg159" class="tei tei-ref">159</a>, <a href="#Pg162" class="tei tei-ref">162</a>, <a href="#Pg164" class="tei tei-ref">164</a>:<br /> +letter from, <a href="#Pg111" class="tei tei-ref">111</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Loggia dei Lanzi, <a href="#Pg116" class="tei tei-ref">116</a>, <a href="#Pg129" class="tei tei-ref">129</a>, <a href="#Pg228" class="tei tei-ref">228</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Loggia of the Vatican, <a href="#Pg263" class="tei tei-ref">263</a>, <a href="#Pg292" class="tei tei-ref">292</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lorenzetto: worked from the cartoon, <a href="#Pg127" class="tei tei-ref">127</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lorenzino: nicknamed Brutus, <a href="#Pg250" class="tei tei-ref">250</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lorenzo: <br /> +San, the facade, <a href="#Pg51" class="tei tei-ref">51</a>, <a href="#Pg183" class="tei tei-ref">183</a>, <a href="#Pg185" class="tei tei-ref">185</a>;<br /> +obsequies of the master at, <a href="#Pg262" class="tei tei-ref">262</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lorenzo: San, the pulpits of, <a href="#Pg100" class="tei tei-ref">100</a>, <a href="#Pg103" class="tei tei-ref">103</a>, <a href="#Pg178" class="tei tei-ref">178</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Loreto, <a href="#Pg265" class="tei tei-ref">265</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lottino: Il, <a href="#Pg85" class="tei tei-ref">85</a>, <a href="#Pg246" class="tei tei-ref">246</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Louis XIII: <a href="#Pg204" class="tei tei-ref">204</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Louvre: the two Slaves, <a href="#Pg116" class="tei tei-ref">116</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Love: <br /> +a god of, in marble, made to imitate the antique, <a href="#Pg21" class="tei tei-ref">21</a>, <a href="#Pg107" class="tei tei-ref">107</a>;<br /> +a little, carved for Galli, <a href="#Pg25" class="tei tei-ref">25</a>, <a href="#Pg107" class="tei tei-ref">107</a>, <a href="#Pg108" class="tei tei-ref">108</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lucan, <a href="#Pg299" class="tei tei-ref">299</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lucca, <a href="#Pg3" class="tei tei-ref">3</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lucrezia: second wife of Lodovico, <a href="#Pg109" class="tei tei-ref">109</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Luiz: Infanta D., <a href="#Pg169" class="tei tei-ref">169</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Madonna and Child: a bas-relief in the Casa Buonarroti, <a href="#Pg104" class="tei tei-ref">104</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Madonna and Child: marble statue, Bruges, <a href="#Pg29" class="tei tei-ref">29</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Madonna and Child: marble statue, New Sacristy, San Lorenzo, <a href="#Pg59" class="tei tei-ref">59</a>, <a href="#Pg194" class="tei tei-ref">194</a>, <a href="#Pg215" class="tei tei-ref">215</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Madonna and Child with Angela: National Gallery, from a cartoon by the master, <a href="#Pg157" class="tei tei-ref">157</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Madonna and Child with St. John: marble tondo, Bargello, <a href="#Pg121" class="tei tei-ref">121</a>, <a href="#Pg122" class="tei tei-ref">122</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Madonna and Child with St. John: marble tondo, Diploma Gallery, <a href="#Pg121" class="tei tei-ref">121</a>, <a href="#Pg122" class="tei tei-ref">122</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Madonna and Child with St. Joseph: painted tondo, Ufflzi, <a href="#Pg29" class="tei tei-ref">29</a>, <a href="#Pg122" class="tei tei-ref">122</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Madonna della Pietà: of St. Peter's <a href="#Pg25" class="tei tei-ref">25</a>, <a href="#Pg26" class="tei tei-ref">26</a>, <a href="#Pg112" class="tei tei-ref">112</a>, <a href="#Pg113" class="tei tei-ref">113</a>, <a href="#Pg232" class="tei tei-ref">232</a>, <a href="#Pg234" class="tei tei-ref">234</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Madonna: medallion at Genoa, <a href="#Pg237" class="tei tei-ref">237</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Maffei: the Most Reverend, <a href="#Pg84" class="tei tei-ref">84</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Malaspina: Lionardo, <a href="#Pg85" class="tei tei-ref">85</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Manfidi: Angelo, second herald, <a href="#Pg116" class="tei tei-ref">116</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Mantegna: Andrea, <a href="#Pg290" class="tei tei-ref">290</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Mantua, <a href="#Pg3" class="tei tei-ref">3</a>, <a href="#Pg290" class="tei tei-ref">290</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Mantua: Cardinal of, commends the Moses, <a href="#Pg67" class="tei tei-ref">67</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Mantua: the Marchesana, <a href="#Pg22" class="tei tei-ref">22</a>, <a href="#Pg23" class="tei tei-ref">23</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Marc Antonio Raimondi: his engraving of the Cartoon, <a href="#Pg125" class="tei tei-ref">125</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Marcello Venusti: his copy of the Day of Judgment, <a href="#Pg253" class="tei tei-ref">253</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Marcellus II.: <br /> +Pope, Cardinal Marcello Cervini, <a href="#Pg244" class="tei tei-ref">244</a>;<br /> +Pope, <a href="#Pg245" class="tei tei-ref">245</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Margarite: of Austria, <a href="#Pg305" class="tei tei-ref">305</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Mario Scappuci, <a href="#Pg180" class="tei tei-ref">180</a>; <a href="#Pg181" class="tei tei-ref">181</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Martin Schongauer: the master copies his engraving, <a href="#Pg7" class="tei tei-ref">7</a>, <a href="#Pg97" class="tei tei-ref">97</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Masaccio: study of, <a href="#Pg105" class="tei tei-ref">105</a>, <a href="#Pg172" class="tei tei-ref">172</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Maso del Bosco: carves the portrait of Julius II. for the Tomb, <a href="#Pg226" class="tei tei-ref">226</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Matilda: Countess, <a href="#Pg3" class="tei tei-ref">3</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Mattea da Lecce: Sistine Chapel, <a href="#Pg167" class="tei tei-ref">167</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Matthew: St., marble statue in the Court of the Academy, Florence, <a href="#Pg74" class="tei tei-ref">74</a>, <a href="#Pg118" class="tei tei-ref">118</a>, <a href="#Pg228" class="tei tei-ref">228</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Maturino: worked from the Cartoon, <a href="#Pg127" class="tei tei-ref">127</a>, <a href="#Pg292" class="tei tei-ref">292</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Maximilian: Emperor, <a href="#Pg279" class="tei tei-ref">279</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Medal: Leone's, of the master, <a href="#Pg252" class="tei tei-ref">252</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Medici: Alessandro de', <a href="#Pg59" class="tei tei-ref">59</a>, <a href="#Pg60" class="tei tei-ref">60</a>, <a href="#Pg62" class="tei tei-ref">62</a>, <a href="#Pg201" class="tei tei-ref">201</a>, <a href="#Pg250" class="tei tei-ref">250</a>, <a href="#Pg305" class="tei tei-ref">305</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Medici: Cardinal de', <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Clement VII.<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Medici: Cosimo de' <a href="#Pg51" class="tei tei-ref">51</a>, <a href="#Pg208" class="tei tei-ref">208</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Medici: Cosimo de', First Grand Duke of Tuscany, <a href="#Pg104" class="tei tei-ref">104</a>, <a href="#Pg209" class="tei tei-ref">209</a><br /></p> + + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page342">[pg 342]</span><a name="Pg342" id="Pg342" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Medici Garden, <a href="#Pg9" class="tei tei-ref">9</a>, <a href="#Pg99" class="tei tei-ref">99</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Medici: House of, driven out of Florence, <a href="#Pg18" class="tei tei-ref">18</a>, <a href="#Pg55" class="tei tei-ref">55</a>, <a href="#Pg201" class="tei tei-ref">201</a>, <a href="#Pg290" class="tei tei-ref">290</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Medici: <br /> +Lorenzo di Pier Francesco de', <a href="#Pg21" class="tei tei-ref">21</a>, <a href="#Pg23" class="tei tei-ref">23</a>, <a href="#Pg106" class="tei tei-ref">106</a>;<br /> +letter to, <a href="#Pg107" class="tei tei-ref">107</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Medici: <br /> +Lorenzo de', the Magnificent, sees the master at work in his garden, <a href="#Pg10" class="tei tei-ref">10</a>, <a href="#Pg100" class="tei tei-ref">100</a>;<br /> +takes him into his household, <a href="#Pg12" class="tei tei-ref">12</a>, <a href="#Pg13" class="tei tei-ref">13</a>;<br /> +death, <a href="#Pg14" class="tei tei-ref">14</a>, <a href="#Pg105" class="tei tei-ref">105</a>;<br /> +his ghost appears to Cardiere, <a href="#Pg16" class="tei tei-ref">16</a>, <a href="#Pg17" class="tei tei-ref">17</a>, <a href="#Pg193" class="tei tei-ref">193</a>, <a href="#Pg194" class="tei tei-ref">194</a>, <a href="#Pg208" class="tei tei-ref">208</a>, <a href="#Pg211" class="tei tei-ref">211</a>, <a href="#Pg212" class="tei tei-ref">212</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Medici: Pier de', <a href="#Pg15" class="tei tei-ref">15</a>, <a href="#Pg17" class="tei tei-ref">17</a> <br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Medici rule, <a href="#Pg215" class="tei tei-ref">215</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Medici Tombs: in the New Sacristy of San Lorenzo, <a href="#Pg58" class="tei tei-ref">58</a>, <a href="#Pg173" class="tei tei-ref">173</a>, <a href="#Pg203" class="tei tei-ref">203</a>, <a href="#Pg208" class="tei tei-ref">208</a>, <a href="#Pg250" class="tei tei-ref">250</a>, <a href="#Pg252" class="tei tei-ref">252</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Melozzo da Forli: vault painting of, <a href="#Pg131" class="tei tei-ref">131</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Menichella: Domenico, <a href="#Pg205" class="tei tei-ref">205</a>, <a href="#Pg206" class="tei tei-ref">206</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Metauro, <a href="#Pg193" class="tei tei-ref">193</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Metello Vari: dei Porcari, <a href="#Pg180" class="tei tei-ref">180</a>, <a href="#Pg181" class="tei tei-ref">181</a>, <a href="#Pg188" class="tei tei-ref">188</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Michael Angelo: <br /> +claims descent from the House of Canossa, <a href="#Pg3" class="tei tei-ref">3</a>;<br /> +his ancestors, <a href="#Pg4" class="tei tei-ref">4</a>;<br /> +birth and horoscope, <a href="#Pg5" class="tei tei-ref">5</a>;<br /> +foster-mother and schoolmaster, <a href="#Pg6" class="tei tei-ref">6</a>;<br /> +first painting, <a href="#Pg7" class="tei tei-ref">7</a>, <a href="#Pg97" class="tei tei-ref">97</a>;<br /> +apprenticed to Ghirlandaio, <a href="#Pg8" class="tei tei-ref">8</a>, <a href="#Pg97" class="tei tei-ref">97</a>;<br /> +drawings, <a href="#Pg8" class="tei tei-ref">8</a>, <a href="#Pg9" class="tei tei-ref">9</a>, <a href="#Pg98" class="tei tei-ref">98</a>;<br /> +studies in the Medici Gardens under Bertoldo, <a href="#Pg9" class="tei tei-ref">9</a>, <a href="#Pg99" class="tei tei-ref">99</a>; <br /> +carves the head of a faun, <a href="#Pg10" class="tei tei-ref">10</a>, <a href="#Pg11" class="tei tei-ref">11</a>;<br /> +enters the House of Medici, <a href="#Pg12" class="tei tei-ref">12</a>, <a href="#Pg102" class="tei tei-ref">102</a>;<br /> +halcyon days with Lorenzo who presents him with a violet-coloured mantle, <a href="#Pg12" class="tei tei-ref">12</a>, note, <a href="#Pg102" class="tei tei-ref">102</a>;<br /> +incited by Poliziano, he carves the Rape of Deianira, <a href="#Pg14" class="tei tei-ref">14</a>, <a href="#Pg103" class="tei tei-ref">103</a>;<br /> +grief at the loss of his patron, <a href="#Pg14" class="tei tei-ref">14</a>;<br /> +the lost Hercules, <a href="#Pg14" class="tei tei-ref">14</a>, <a href="#Pg105" class="tei tei-ref">105</a>;<br /> +makes a snow-statue for Piero, <a href="#Pg15" class="tei tei-ref">15</a>;<br /> +studies anatomy at Santo Spirito and carves a crucifix in wood for the Prior, <a href="#Pg16" class="tei tei-ref">16</a>;<br /> +fears of Cardiere, <a href="#Pg17" class="tei tei-ref">17</a>;<br /> +and flight to Bologna, <a href="#Pg18" class="tei tei-ref">18</a>;<br /> +the Angel of the Shrine of San Domenico, <a href="#Pg19" class="tei tei-ref">19</a>, <a href="#Pg105" class="tei tei-ref">105</a>;<br /> +returns to Florence, <a href="#Pg21" class="tei tei-ref">21</a>, <a href="#Pg106" class="tei tei-ref">106</a>;<br /> +the San Giovannino and the god of Love, <a href="#Pg21" class="tei tei-ref">21</a>, <a href="#Pg22" class="tei tei-ref">22</a>, <a href="#Pg23" class="tei tei-ref">23</a>, <a href="#Pg106" class="tei tei-ref">106</a>, <a href="#Pg107" class="tei tei-ref">107</a>;<br /> +first visit to Rome, <a href="#Pg22" class="tei tei-ref">22</a>, <a href="#Pg107" class="tei tei-ref">107</a>;<br /> +carves a Bacchus and a little Cupid, <a href="#Pg24" class="tei tei-ref">24</a>, <a href="#Pg25" class="tei tei-ref">25</a>, <a href="#Pg107" class="tei tei-ref">107</a>, <a href="#Pg108" class="tei tei-ref">108</a>;<br /> +and the Madonna della Pietà, <a href="#Pg25" class="tei tei-ref">25</a>, <a href="#Pg112" class="tei tei-ref">112</a>;<br /> +returns to Florence, <a href="#Pg27" class="tei tei-ref">27</a>, <a href="#Pg28" class="tei tei-ref">28</a>, <a href="#Pg114" class="tei tei-ref">114</a>-<a href="#Pg120" class="tei tei-ref">120</a>;<br /> +the Madonna of Bruges, <a href="#Pg29" class="tei tei-ref">29</a>, <a href="#Pg121" class="tei tei-ref">121</a>;<br /> +the three Tondi, <a href="#Pg29" class="tei tei-ref">29</a>, <a href="#Pg121" class="tei tei-ref">121</a>-<a href="#Pg124" class="tei tei-ref">124</a>;<br /> +the Cartoon of Pisa, <a href="#Pg37" class="tei tei-ref">37</a>, <a href="#Pg38" class="tei tei-ref">38</a>, <a href="#Pg124" class="tei tei-ref">124</a>-<a href="#Pg127" class="tei tei-ref">127</a>;<br /> +summoned to Rome by Julius II., <a href="#Pg29" class="tei tei-ref">29</a>, <a href="#Pg128" class="tei tei-ref">128</a>;<br /> +who orders the Tomb, <a href="#Pg30" class="tei tei-ref">30</a>-34, <a href="#Pg128" class="tei tei-ref">128</a>-<a href="#Pg130" class="tei tei-ref">130</a>;<br /> +marbles brought from Carrara, <a href="#Pg30" class="tei tei-ref">30</a>, <a href="#Pg34" class="tei tei-ref">34</a>, <a href="#Pg128" class="tei tei-ref">128</a>;<br /> +flight from Rome, <a href="#Pg85" class="tei tei-ref">85</a>, <a href="#Pg36" class="tei tei-ref">36</a>, <a href="#Pg130" class="tei tei-ref">130</a>;<br /> +works in Florence on the Cartoon, <a href="#Pg37" class="tei tei-ref">37</a>, <a href="#Pg130" class="tei tei-ref">130</a>;<br /> +joins Julius at Bologna, <a href="#Pg39" class="tei tei-ref">39</a>, <a href="#Pg132" class="tei tei-ref">132</a>;<br /> +the Colossal Bronze, <a href="#Pg40" class="tei tei-ref">40</a>, <a href="#Pg133" class="tei tei-ref">133</a>-<a href="#Pg142" class="tei tei-ref">142</a>, <a href="#Pg144" class="tei tei-ref">144</a>, <a href="#Pg145" class="tei tei-ref">145</a>;<br /> +returns to Florence, <a href="#Pg143" class="tei tei-ref">143</a>;<br /> +but is summoned to Rome, <a href="#Pg143" class="tei tei-ref">143</a>;<br /> +to paint the vault of the Sistine Chapel, <a href="#Pg41" class="tei tei-ref">41</a>-49, <a href="#Pg145" class="tei tei-ref">145</a>-<a href="#Pg165" class="tei tei-ref">165</a>; <br /> +descriptions of the vault, <a href="#Pg42" class="tei tei-ref">42</a>-46, <a href="#Pg167" class="tei tei-ref">167</a>-<a href="#Pg179" class="tei tei-ref">179</a>;<br /> +death of Julius, <a href="#Pg50" class="tei tei-ref">50</a>, <a href="#Pg146" class="tei tei-ref">146</a>, <a href="#Pg180" class="tei tei-ref">180</a>;<br /> +proceeds with the Tomb, <a href="#Pg51" class="tei tei-ref">51</a>, <a href="#Pg180" class="tei tei-ref">180</a>-<a href="#Pg182" class="tei tei-ref">182</a>;<br /> +but Leo X. orders a facade for San Lorenzo, <a href="#Pg51" class="tei tei-ref">51</a>;<br /> +quarries at Carrara and Pietra Santa, <a href="#Pg52" class="tei tei-ref">52</a>, <a href="#Pg183" class="tei tei-ref">183</a>, <a href="#Pg185" class="tei tei-ref">185</a>;<br /> +the facade abandoned, <a href="#Pg54" class="tei tei-ref">54</a>, <a href="#Pg185" class="tei tei-ref">185</a>;<br /> +the Library, <a href="#Pg54" class="tei tei-ref">54</a>;<br /> +the New Sacristy, <a href="#Pg54" class="tei tei-ref">54</a>, <a href="#Pg186" class="tei tei-ref">186</a>;<br /> +and the Medici Tombs, <a href="#Pg68" class="tei tei-ref">68</a>-60, <a href="#Pg192" class="tei tei-ref">192</a>-<a href="#Pg194" class="tei tei-ref">194</a>, <a href="#Pg208" class="tei tei-ref">208</a>-<a href="#Pg216" class="tei tei-ref">216</a>;<br /> +the Siege of Florence, the master made Commissary-General of Fortifications, <a href="#Pg55" class="tei tei-ref">55</a>-58;<br /> +visits Ferrara, <a href="#Pg60" class="tei tei-ref">60</a>;<br /> +flight to Venice, <a href="#Pg66" class="tei tei-ref">66</a>;<br /> +return to duty, <a href="#Pg57" class="tei tei-ref">57</a>;<br /> +the fall of Florence, <a href="#Pg67" class="tei tei-ref">67</a>, <a href="#Pg203" class="tei tei-ref">203</a>;<br /> +the master in hiding, but he is allowed to return to work on the Tombs, <a href="#Pg68" class="tei tei-ref">68</a>, <a href="#Pg203" class="tei tei-ref">203</a>;<br /> +the Leda, <a href="#Pg61" class="tei tei-ref">61</a>, <a href="#Pg62" class="tei tei-ref">62</a>, <a href="#Pg202" class="tei tei-ref">202</a>;<br /> +the Risen Christ, <a href="#Pg74" class="tei tei-ref">74</a>, <a href="#Pg180" class="tei tei-ref">180</a>, <a href="#Pg187" class="tei tei-ref">187</a>, <a href="#Pg188" class="tei tei-ref">188</a>;<br /> +new agreement with the executors of Julius, <a href="#Pg62" class="tei tei-ref">62</a>-64, <a href="#Pg194" class="tei tei-ref">194</a>;<br /> +the master is called to Rome by Clement VII. and leaves Florence for the last time, <a href="#Pg62" class="tei tei-ref">62</a>, <a href="#Pg208" class="tei tei-ref">208</a>;<br /> +the Day of Judgment, <a href="#Pg64" class="tei tei-ref">64</a>, <a href="#Pg70" class="tei tei-ref">70</a>, <a href="#Pg71" class="tei tei-ref">71</a>, <a href="#Pg216" class="tei tei-ref">216</a>-<a href="#Pg224" class="tei tei-ref">224</a>;<br /> +Paul III. appoints the master chief architect, sculptor, and painter to the Vatican, <a href="#Pg216" class="tei tei-ref">216</a>;<br /> +the Tomb of Julius erected in San Pietro ad Vincula, <a href="#Pg67" class="tei tei-ref">67</a>-69, <a href="#Pg195" class="tei tei-ref">195</a>, <a href="#Pg224" class="tei tei-ref">224</a>-<a href="#Pg227" class="tei tei-ref">227</a>;<br /> +the frescoes in the Cappella Paolino, <a href="#Pg73" class="tei tei-ref">73</a>, <a href="#Pg232" class="tei tei-ref">232</a>;<br /> +the Pietà of S.M. del Fiore, <a href="#Pg73" class="tei tei-ref">73</a>, <a href="#Pg234" class="tei tei-ref">234</a>-<a href="#Pg237" class="tei tei-ref">237</a>;<br /> +the cornice of the Farnese Palace, <a href="#Pg238" class="tei tei-ref">238</a>; <br /> +St. Peter's, <a href="#Pg238" class="tei tei-ref">238</a>, <a href="#Pg239" class="tei tei-ref">239</a>, <a href="#Pg246" class="tei tei-ref">246</a>;<br /> +the Brutus, <a href="#Pg249" class="tei tei-ref">249</a>;<br /> +S.M. degli Angeli, <a href="#Pg251" class="tei tei-ref">251</a>;<br /> +a grand-nephew born, <a href="#Pg265" class="tei tei-ref">265</a>;<br /> +death of Urbino, <a href="#Pg256" class="tei tei-ref">256</a>, <a href="#Pg256" class="tei tei-ref">256</a>;<br /> +a visit to the country near Spoleto, <a href="#Pg256" class="tei tei-ref">256</a>;<br /> +illness, <a href="#Pg268" class="tei tei-ref">268</a>;<br /> +death, <a href="#Pg258" class="tei tei-ref">258</a>;<br /> +works left in his house, <a href="#Pg259" class="tei tei-ref">259</a>;<br /> +his body is deposited in SS. Apostoli, <a href="#Pg260" class="tei tei-ref">260</a>;<br /> +conveyed to Florence, <a href="#Pg260" class="tei tei-ref">260</a>;<br /> +and carried to Santa Croce, <a href="#Pg261" class="tei tei-ref">261</a>;<br /> +his imitators, <a href="#Pg263" class="tei tei-ref">263</a>;<br /> +character and endowments of the master, <a href="#Pg77" class="tei tei-ref">77</a>;<br /> +his love of all beautiful things, <a href="#Pg87" class="tei tei-ref">87</a>;<br /> +his abstemious life, <a href="#Pg88" class="tei tei-ref">88</a>;<br /> +generosity, <a href="#Pg88" class="tei tei-ref">88</a>, <a href="#Pg264" class="tei tei-ref">264</a>, <a href="#Pg265" class="tei tei-ref">265</a>;<br /> +a description +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page343">[pg 343]</span><a name="Pg343" id="Pg343" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>of his person, <a href="#Pg91" class="tei tei-ref">91</a>;<br /> +and the colour of his hair and eyes, <a href="#Pg92" class="tei tei-ref">92</a>;<br /> +the master visits S. Silvester, <a href="#Pg273" class="tei tei-ref">273</a>;<br /> +and expresses his opinion of the quiet life of work, <a href="#Pg276" class="tei tei-ref">276</a>;<br /> +of painting in Flanders, <a href="#Pg279" class="tei tei-ref">279</a>;<br /> +on drawing, <a href="#Pg295" class="tei tei-ref">295</a>-<a href="#Pg297" class="tei tei-ref">297</a>, <a href="#Pg308" class="tei tei-ref">308</a>-<a href="#Pg322" class="tei tei-ref">322</a>;<br /> +on working quickly or slowly, <a href="#Pg325" class="tei tei-ref">325</a>;<br /> +on the value of paintings, <a href="#Pg314" class="tei tei-ref">314</a>;<br /> +on grotesque, <a href="#Pg316" class="tei tei-ref">316</a>;<br /> +and on devotional painting, <a href="#Pg319" class="tei tei-ref">319</a>.<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Milan, <a href="#Pg158" class="tei tei-ref">158</a>, <a href="#Pg250" class="tei tei-ref">250</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Milliarini: Professor, discovers a statue, <a href="#Pg108" class="tei tei-ref">108</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Minerva: the church of S.M. Sopra, <a href="#Pg74" class="tei tei-ref">74</a>, <a href="#Pg180" class="tei tei-ref">180</a>, <a href="#Pg181" class="tei tei-ref">181</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Mini: Antonio, pupil of the master, <a href="#Pg192" class="tei tei-ref">192</a>, <a href="#Pg204" class="tei tei-ref">204</a>, <a href="#Pg264" class="tei tei-ref">264</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Mini: Paolo, <a href="#Pg207" class="tei tei-ref">207</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Miniato: San, fortifications, <a href="#Pg55" class="tei tei-ref">55</a>, <a href="#Pg202" class="tei tei-ref">202</a>, <a href="#Pg203" class="tei tei-ref">203</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Minighella, <a href="#Pg264" class="tei tei-ref">264</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Monciatto: woodcarver, <a href="#Pg115" class="tei tei-ref">115</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Montanto: Antonio, <a href="#Pg184" class="tei tei-ref">184</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Montelupo, <a href="#Pg194" class="tei tei-ref">194</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Montevarchi: Ser Giovanni di Guasparre, <a href="#Pg151" class="tei tei-ref">151</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Montevecchio; Cardinal, <a href="#Pg63" class="tei tei-ref">63</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Montorsoli, <a href="#Pg194" class="tei tei-ref">194</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Moscheroni: Flemish merchants, <a href="#Pg29" class="tei tei-ref">29</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Moses: marble statue, the Tomb of Julius, <a href="#Pg33" class="tei tei-ref">33</a>, <a href="#Pg67" class="tei tei-ref">67</a>, <a href="#Pg68" class="tei tei-ref">68</a>, <a href="#Pg129" class="tei tei-ref">129</a>, <a href="#Pg167" class="tei tei-ref">167</a>, <a href="#Pg182" class="tei tei-ref">182</a>, <a href="#Pg225" class="tei tei-ref">225</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Mother: of the Master, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Francesca <br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Mould on the Vault, <a href="#Pg46" class="tei tei-ref">46</a>, <a href="#Pg161" class="tei tei-ref">161</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Mozza: Via, <a href="#Pg184" class="tei tei-ref">184</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Nanni di Baccio Bigio: his intrigues, <a href="#Pg242" class="tei tei-ref">242</a>, <a href="#Pg244" class="tei tei-ref">244</a>, <a href="#Pg247" class="tei tei-ref">247</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Naples: copy of the Day of Judgment, <a href="#Pg253" class="tei tei-ref">253</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">National Gallery, <a href="#Pg116" class="tei tei-ref">116</a>, <a href="#Pg157" class="tei tei-ref">157</a>, <a href="#Pg204" class="tei tei-ref">204</a>, <a href="#Pg265" class="tei tei-ref">265</a>, <a href="#Pg292" class="tei tei-ref">292</a>, <a href="#Pg330" class="tei tei-ref">330</a>, <a href="#Pg331" class="tei tei-ref">331</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Neptune: proposed statue of Andrea Doria as, <a href="#Pg190" class="tei tei-ref">190</a>, <a href="#Pg191" class="tei tei-ref">191</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Nero, <a href="#Pg275" class="tei tei-ref">275</a>, <a href="#Pg285" class="tei tei-ref">285</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">New Sacristy of San Lorenzo, <a href="#Pg192" class="tei tei-ref">192</a>, <a href="#Pg208" class="tei tei-ref">208</a>, <a href="#Pg293" class="tei tei-ref">293</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Nicholas V.: Pope, <a href="#Pg34" class="tei tei-ref">34</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Nicolo di Bari: the ark of San Domenico, <a href="#Pg105" class="tei tei-ref">105</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Nicolo: San, beyond Arno, <a href="#Pg203" class="tei tei-ref">203</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Night: marble statue, New Sacristy, <a href="#Pg58" class="tei tei-ref">58</a>, <a href="#Pg194" class="tei tei-ref">194</a>, <a href="#Pg203" class="tei tei-ref">203</a>, <a href="#Pg204" class="tei tei-ref">204</a>, <a href="#Pg209" class="tei tei-ref">209</a>, <a href="#Pg213" class="tei tei-ref">213</a>, <a href="#Pg214" class="tei tei-ref">214</a>, <a href="#Pg293" class="tei tei-ref">293</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Noah: the Sacrifice of, Sistine Chapel, <a href="#Pg44" class="tei tei-ref">44</a>, <a href="#Pg45" class="tei tei-ref">45</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Novella: S.M., the first art school of the master, <a href="#Pg99" class="tei tei-ref">99</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Oil painting; the master's opinion of <a href="#Pg217" class="tei tei-ref">217</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ollanda: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Francesco<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Onofrio: San, the master's workshop at, <a href="#Pg124" class="tei tei-ref">124</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Operai: of the Duomo, <a href="#Pg115" class="tei tei-ref">115</a>, <a href="#Pg120" class="tei tei-ref">120</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Orcagna, <a href="#Pg99" class="tei tei-ref">99</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Orvieto, <a href="#Pg221" class="tei tei-ref">221</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ottavio Farnese: the marriage of, <a href="#Pg306" class="tei tei-ref">306</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ovid, <a href="#Pg299" class="tei tei-ref">299</a> <br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Oxford: <br /> +drawings at, anatomy students, <a href="#Pg16" class="tei tei-ref">16</a>;<br /> +after two destroyed frescoes, <a href="#Pg166" class="tei tei-ref">166</a>;<br /> +design for alterations at San Lorenzo, <a href="#Pg198" class="tei tei-ref">198</a>, <a href="#Pg230" class="tei tei-ref">230</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Padua, <a href="#Pg290" class="tei tei-ref">290</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Palla: Giovanni Battista della, <a href="#Pg105" class="tei tei-ref">105</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Paolina: Cappella, <a href="#Pg224" class="tei tei-ref">224</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Paolo Galli: owned the Bacchus and the little Cupid, <a href="#Pg25" class="tei tei-ref">25</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Paris: the Leda goes to, <a href="#Pg204" class="tei tei-ref">204</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Parma, <a href="#Pg3" class="tei tei-ref">3</a>, <a href="#Pg291" class="tei tei-ref">291</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Parmigiano, <a href="#Pg291" class="tei tei-ref">291</a>, <a href="#Pg327" class="tei tei-ref">327</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Paul: St., conversion of, fresco, <a href="#Pg73" class="tei tei-ref">73</a>, <a href="#Pg101" class="tei tei-ref">101</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Paul III.: <br /> +Pope, elected, <a href="#Pg66" class="tei tei-ref">66</a>;<br /> +visits the master, <a href="#Pg67" class="tei tei-ref">67</a>;<br /> +orders him to proceed with the Day of Judgment, <a href="#Pg70" class="tei tei-ref">70</a>, <a href="#Pg73" class="tei tei-ref">73</a>, <a href="#Pg78" class="tei tei-ref">78</a>, <a href="#Pg80" class="tei tei-ref">80</a>, <a href="#Pg84" class="tei tei-ref">84</a>;<br /> +appoints the master chief architect, <a href="#Pg216" class="tei tei-ref">216</a>;<br /> +his answer to Messer Biagio, <a href="#Pg223" class="tei tei-ref">223</a>;<br /> +orders the frescoes for his chapel, <a href="#Pg224" class="tei tei-ref">224</a>, <a href="#Pg225" class="tei tei-ref">225</a>, <a href="#Pg237" class="tei tei-ref">237</a>, <a href="#Pg239" class="tei tei-ref">239</a>; <br /> +death, <a href="#Pg242" class="tei tei-ref">242</a>, <a href="#Pg248" class="tei tei-ref">248</a>, <a href="#Pg276" class="tei tei-ref">276</a>, <a href="#Pg314" class="tei tei-ref">314</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Paul IV.: Pope, <a href="#Pg223" class="tei tei-ref">223</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pavia: Cardinal of, <a href="#Pg132" class="tei tei-ref">132</a>, <a href="#Pg141" class="tei tei-ref">141</a>, <a href="#Pg147" class="tei tei-ref">147</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Penseroso: Il, <a href="#Pg203" class="tei tei-ref">203</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Perino del Vaga, <a href="#Pg127" class="tei tei-ref">127</a>, <a href="#Pg238" class="tei tei-ref">238</a>, <a href="#Pg270" class="tei tei-ref">270</a>, <a href="#Pg291" class="tei tei-ref">291</a>, <a href="#Pg327" class="tei tei-ref">327</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Perspective, <a href="#Pg82" class="tei tei-ref">82</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Perugino, <a href="#Pg77" class="tei tei-ref">77</a>, <a href="#Pg166" class="tei tei-ref">166</a>, <a href="#Pg216" class="tei tei-ref">216</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Peruzzi: Baldassari, <a href="#Pg238" class="tei tei-ref">238</a>, <a href="#Pg240" class="tei tei-ref">240</a>, <a href="#Pg242" class="tei tei-ref">242</a>, <a href="#Pg292" class="tei tei-ref">292</a>, <a href="#Pg295" class="tei tei-ref">295</a>, <a href="#Pg327" class="tei tei-ref">327</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pesaro, <a href="#Pg290" class="tei tei-ref">290</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pescara: Marchioness of, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Colonna<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pesellino: studies from, <a href="#Pg105" class="tei tei-ref">105</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Peter: St., a blocked out statue, <a href="#Pg259" class="tei tei-ref">259</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Peter: St., crucifixion of, alfresco, <a href="#Pg73" class="tei tei-ref">73</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Peter's: <br /> +the church of St., new design for, <a href="#Pg25" class="tei tei-ref">25</a>, <a href="#Pg33" class="tei tei-ref">33</a>, <a href="#Pg83" class="tei tei-ref">83</a>;<br /> +plans altered to embrace the project of the Tomb, <a href="#Pg129" class="tei tei-ref">129</a>;<br /> +the master undertakes the works, + +<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page344">[pg 344]</span><a name="Pg344" id="Pg344" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a href="#Pg238" class="tei tei-ref">238</a>, <a href="#Pg243" class="tei tei-ref">243</a>, <a href="#Pg244" class="tei tei-ref">244</a>, <a href="#Pg245" class="tei tei-ref">245</a>, <a href="#Pg249" class="tei tei-ref">249</a>, <a href="#Pg259" class="tei tei-ref">259</a>, <a href="#Pg291" class="tei tei-ref">291</a>, <a href="#Pg292" class="tei tei-ref">292</a>, <a href="#Pg305" class="tei tei-ref">305</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Petrarca, <a href="#Pg19" class="tei tei-ref">19</a>;<br /> +and Tuscan rhyme, <a href="#Pg76" class="tei tei-ref">76</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Petronilla: Santa, the Madonna della Pietà placed in the church of, <a href="#Pg25" class="tei tei-ref">25</a>, <a href="#Pg112" class="tei tei-ref">112</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Petronio: San, a marble statuette finished by the master, <a href="#Pg105" class="tei tei-ref">105</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Petronio: San, the master hears mass in the church of, <a href="#Pg39" class="tei tei-ref">39</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Phæton: a drawing, <a href="#Pg231" class="tei tei-ref">231</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Phidias, <a href="#Pg156" class="tei tei-ref">156</a>, <a href="#Pg294" class="tei tei-ref">294</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Piacenza: the ferry revenue goes to the master, <a href="#Pg216" class="tei tei-ref">216</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Piecolomini: Cardinal Francesco, orders fifteen statues, <a href="#Pg114" class="tei tei-ref">114</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pico della Mirandola, <a href="#Pg102" class="tei tei-ref">102</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pier Luigi: Gaeta, <a href="#Pg247" class="tei tei-ref">247</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Piero di Cosimo, <a href="#Pg103" class="tei tei-ref">103</a>, note, <a href="#Pg116" class="tei tei-ref">116</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pierre Mariette: the fate of the Leda, <a href="#Pg204" class="tei tei-ref">204</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pietà: a drawing, <a href="#Pg259" class="tei tei-ref">259</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pietà: of S.M. del Fiore, <a href="#Pg73" class="tei tei-ref">73</a>, <a href="#Pg233" class="tei tei-ref">233</a>, <a href="#Pg236" class="tei tei-ref">236</a>, <a href="#Pg262" class="tei tei-ref">262</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pietà: the Palazzo Rondini, <a href="#Pg237" class="tei tei-ref">237</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pietà: Viterbo, by Sebastiano, <a href="#Pg265" class="tei tei-ref">265</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pietà: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Madonna della Pietà<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pietra: Santa, marble quarries, <a href="#Pg52" class="tei tei-ref">52</a>, <a href="#Pg53" class="tei tei-ref">53</a>, <a href="#Pg183" class="tei tei-ref">183</a>-<a href="#Pg185" class="tei tei-ref">185</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pietro Matteo d'Amelia, <a href="#Pg150" class="tei tei-ref">150</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pietro: San, in Montorio, wall painting by Sebastiano, <a href="#Pg101" class="tei tei-ref">101</a>, <a href="#Pg265" class="tei tei-ref">265</a>, <a href="#Pg292" class="tei tei-ref">292</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pietro: San, in Viticula, the Tomb of Julius II. set up, <a href="#Pg67" class="tei tei-ref">67</a>, <a href="#Pg129" class="tei tei-ref">129</a>, <a href="#Pg182" class="tei tei-ref">182</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pietro: San, Maggiore, Florence, <a href="#Pg260" class="tei tei-ref">260</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pietro Urbano: a workman, <a href="#Pg133" class="tei tei-ref">133</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pietro Urbino, <a href="#Pg187" class="tei tei-ref">187</a>, <a href="#Pg264" class="tei tei-ref">264</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pilote: goldsmith, <a href="#Pg264" class="tei tei-ref">264</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pinti: Borgo, the master's house in, <a href="#Pg120" class="tei tei-ref">120</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pintoricchio: Bernardino, <a href="#Pg166" class="tei tei-ref">166</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Piombo: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Sebastiano<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pisa: <br /> +fortifications, <a href="#Pg202" class="tei tei-ref">202</a>;<br /> +picture by Buggiardini, <a href="#Pg158" class="tei tei-ref">158</a>; <a href="#Pg291" class="tei tei-ref">291</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pisa: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Cartoon<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pisani: pulpits of the, <a href="#Pg103" class="tei tei-ref">103</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pisano: Giovanni, <a href="#Pg177" class="tei tei-ref">177</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pistoia: San Andrea at, <a href="#Pg177" class="tei tei-ref">177</a>; <a href="#Pg264" class="tei tei-ref">264</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pitti: Bartolomineo, <a href="#Pg121" class="tei tei-ref">121</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pius III.: Pope, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Piccolomini.<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pius IV.: <br /> +Pope, elected, <a href="#Pg245" class="tei tei-ref">245</a>; <br /> +confirms the master in his office, <a href="#Pg247" class="tei tei-ref">247</a>, <a href="#Pg250" class="tei tei-ref">250</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pius V.: injures the Day of Judgment, <a href="#Pg228" class="tei tei-ref">228</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Plato, <a href="#Pg75" class="tei tei-ref">75</a>, <a href="#Pg87" class="tei tei-ref">87</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Plutarch, <a href="#Pg286" class="tei tei-ref">286</a>, <a href="#Pg326" class="tei tei-ref">326</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Po: <br /> +the river, <a href="#Pg193" class="tei tei-ref">193</a>; <br /> +revenue of a ferry, <a href="#Pg216" class="tei tei-ref">216</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Poggibonsi, <a href="#Pg35" class="tei tei-ref">35</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pole: Cardinal, a friend of the master, <a href="#Pg84" class="tei tei-ref">84</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Polidoro, <a href="#Pg292" class="tei tei-ref">292</a>, <a href="#Pg327" class="tei tei-ref">327</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Poliziano: recognises the master's lofty spirit, <a href="#Pg13" class="tei tei-ref">13</a>, <a href="#Pg102" class="tei tei-ref">102</a>, <a href="#Pg103" class="tei tei-ref">103</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pollaiuolo: Salvestro del, nephew of Antonio, <a href="#Pg139" class="tei tei-ref">139</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pollaiuolo: Simone il, <a href="#Pg131" class="tei tei-ref">131</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Polvaccio: Roman quarry, <a href="#Pg187" class="tei tei-ref">187</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pompey, <a href="#Pg286" class="tei tei-ref">286</a>, <a href="#Pg310" class="tei tei-ref">310</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ponte: Maestro Bernardo dal, helps to cast the Colossal Bronze, <a href="#Pg136" class="tei tei-ref">136</a>, <a href="#Pg139" class="tei tei-ref">139</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ponte Rotto, <a href="#Pg245" class="tei tei-ref">245</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pontormo: Il, <a href="#Pg127" class="tei tei-ref">127</a>, <a href="#Pg264" class="tei tei-ref">264</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Porta del Popolo, <a href="#Pg251" class="tei tei-ref">251</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Porta Pia, <a href="#Pg251" class="tei tei-ref">251</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Portraits of the master, <a href="#Pg252" class="tei tei-ref">252</a>, <a href="#Pg263" class="tei tei-ref">263</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Praxiteles, <a href="#Pg294" class="tei tei-ref">294</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Prophets: Sistine Chapel, <a href="#Pg42" class="tei tei-ref">42</a>, <a href="#Pg45" class="tei tei-ref">45</a>, <a href="#Pg164" class="tei tei-ref">164</a>, <a href="#Pg166" class="tei tei-ref">166</a>-<a href="#Pg170" class="tei tei-ref">170</a>, <a href="#Pg176" class="tei tei-ref">176</a>-<a href="#Pg178" class="tei tei-ref">178</a>, <a href="#Pg211" class="tei tei-ref">211</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Protogenes, <a href="#Pg325" class="tei tei-ref">325</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Psyche: the Story of, by Raphael, <a href="#Pg292" class="tei tei-ref">292</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pulci: Luigi, <a href="#Pg102" class="tei tei-ref">102</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Raffaellino: offers to come as assistant, <a href="#Pg149" class="tei tei-ref">149</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Raffaello da Monte Lupo: <br /> +his autobiography, <a href="#Pg121" class="tei tei-ref">121</a>;<br /> +the Madonna for the Tomb of Julius, <a href="#Pg224" class="tei tei-ref">224</a>-<a href="#Pg226" class="tei tei-ref">226</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Raising of Lazarus: by Sebastiano, the master's design for, <a href="#Pg265" class="tei tei-ref">265</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Raphael: <br /> +da Urbino, proposed by the master as painter of the Sistine, <a href="#Pg41" class="tei tei-ref">41</a>, <a href="#Pg47" class="tei tei-ref">47</a>;<br /> +studies the style of the master, <a href="#Pg77" class="tei tei-ref">77</a>;<br /> +he is praised by the master, <a href="#Pg89" class="tei tei-ref">89</a>;<br /> +his painting of Doni, <a href="#Pg122" class="tei tei-ref">122</a>;<br /> +studied the Cartoon, <a href="#Pg126" class="tei tei-ref">126</a>;<br /> +his manner with his assistants, <a href="#Pg155" class="tei tei-ref">155</a>;<br /> +the proposition of Bramante, <a href="#Pg164" class="tei tei-ref">164</a>;<br /> +cartoons for tapestry, <a href="#Pg167" class="tei tei-ref">167</a>;<br /> +his composition of the Sacrifice of Noah, <a href="#Pg173" class="tei tei-ref">173</a>;<br /> +Sibyls at S.M. della Pace, <a href="#Pg177" class="tei tei-ref">177</a>;<br /> +a putto, <a href="#Pg178" class="tei tei-ref">178</a>, <a href="#Pg197" class="tei tei-ref">197</a>, <a href="#Pg221" class="tei tei-ref">221</a>, <a href="#Pg238" class="tei tei-ref">238</a>, <a href="#Pg240" class="tei tei-ref">240</a>, <a href="#Pg242" class="tei tei-ref">242</a>, <a href="#Pg256" class="tei tei-ref">256</a>, <a href="#Pg263" class="tei tei-ref">263</a>, <a href="#Pg271" class="tei tei-ref">271</a>, <a href="#Pg292" class="tei tei-ref">292</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ravenna, <a href="#Pg184" class="tei tei-ref">184</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Realdo: physician, <a href="#Pg91" class="tei tei-ref">91</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Redemptions of Israel, <a href="#Pg166" class="tei tei-ref">166</a>, <a href="#Pg169" class="tei tei-ref">169</a>, <a href="#Pg178" class="tei tei-ref">178</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Reggio, <a href="#Pg3" class="tei tei-ref">3</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Rembrandt, <a href="#Pg172" class="tei tei-ref">172</a>, <a href="#Pg224" class="tei tei-ref">224</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Reynel: King of France, <a href="#Pg293" class="tei tei-ref">293</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Riccio: Luigi del, nurses the master when ill, <a href="#Pg227" class="tei tei-ref">227</a><br /></p> + + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page345">[pg 345]</span><a name="Pg345" id="Pg345" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Ricordi: <br /> +the vault finished, <a href="#Pg165" class="tei tei-ref">165</a>;<br /> +the facade of San Lorenzo abandoned, <a href="#Pg185" class="tei tei-ref">185</a>;<br /> +marbles for the sacristy, <a href="#Pg187" class="tei tei-ref">187</a>; <a href="#Pg192" class="tei tei-ref">192</a>;<br /> +Gondi hides goods in the New Sacristy, <a href="#Pg201" class="tei tei-ref">201</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ridolfi: Cardinal, <a href="#Pg85" class="tei tei-ref">85</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ridolfo Pio of Carpi: <br /> +Cardinal, letter to, <a href="#Pg241" class="tei tei-ref">241</a>;<br /> +the Brutus for, <a href="#Pg249" class="tei tei-ref">249</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ridolfo: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Ghirlandaio<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Rimini: a post on the Chancery bestowed on the master, <a href="#Pg216" class="tei tei-ref">216</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Risen Christ: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Christ<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Robertet: Florimond, secretary, receives the bronze David, <a href="#Pg119" class="tei tei-ref">119</a>, <a href="#Pg120" class="tei tei-ref">120</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Rocco: a San, drawn for Minighella, <a href="#Pg264" class="tei tei-ref">264</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Rondini: Palazzo, Pietà in, <a href="#Pg237" class="tei tei-ref">237</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Rontini: Baccio, cures the master from the effects of his fall, <a href="#Pg219" class="tei tei-ref">219</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Romans: claim him as a citizen, <a href="#Pg260" class="tei tei-ref">260</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Rome: <br /> +the master's first visit, <a href="#Pg29" class="tei tei-ref">29</a>, <a href="#Pg30" class="tei tei-ref">30</a> <a href="#Pg3" class="tei tei-ref">3</a>7, <a href="#Pg41" class="tei tei-ref">41</a>, <a href="#Pg107" class="tei tei-ref">107</a>, <a href="#Pg109" class="tei tei-ref">109</a>, <a href="#Pg111" class="tei tei-ref">111</a>, <a href="#Pg121" class="tei tei-ref">121</a>, <a href="#Pg128" class="tei tei-ref">128</a> <a href="#Pg130" class="tei tei-ref">130</a>, <a href="#Pg184" class="tei tei-ref">184</a>, <a href="#Pg185" class="tei tei-ref">185</a>;<br /> +the sack of, <a href="#Pg200" class="tei tei-ref">200</a>, <a href="#Pg205" class="tei tei-ref">205</a>;<br /> +the master returns finally, <a href="#Pg216" class="tei tei-ref">216</a>, <a href="#Pg237" class="tei tei-ref">237</a>, <a href="#Pg240" class="tei tei-ref">240</a>, <a href="#Pg246" class="tei tei-ref">246</a>, <a href="#Pg247" class="tei tei-ref">247</a>, <a href="#Pg253" class="tei tei-ref">253</a>, <a href="#Pg256" class="tei tei-ref">256</a>, <a href="#Pg260" class="tei tei-ref">260</a>, <a href="#Pg270" class="tei tei-ref">270</a>, <a href="#Pg291" class="tei tei-ref">291</a>, <a href="#Pg305" class="tei tei-ref">305</a>, <a href="#Pg314" class="tei tei-ref">314</a> <br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Rosselli: Cosimo, <a href="#Pg116" class="tei tei-ref">116</a>, <a href="#Pg166" class="tei tei-ref">166</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Rosselli: Piero di Jacopo, plasters the vault, <a href="#Pg149" class="tei tei-ref">149</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Rosselli: Pietro, letter to the master, <a href="#Pg130" class="tei tei-ref">130</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Rosselmini: Count Guarlandi, <a href="#Pg106" class="tei tei-ref">106</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Rosso: II, worked from the Cartoon, <a href="#Pg127" class="tei tei-ref">127</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Rovere: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Julius II.<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Rovezzano: Benedetto da, <a href="#Pg119" class="tei tei-ref">119</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Rovano: Cardinal, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Dionigi<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Royal Academy: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Diploma Gallery<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Rucellai: recommendation to, <a href="#Pg24" class="tei tei-ref">24</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ruffilni: Alessandro, groom of the Chamber, <a href="#Pg83" class="tei tei-ref">83</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sacrarium: at San Lorenzo, design, <a href="#Pg198" class="tei tei-ref">198</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sacrifice of Noah, <a href="#Pg172" class="tei tei-ref">172</a>, <a href="#Pg173" class="tei tei-ref">173</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sacristy of San Lorenzo: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Medici Tombs<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sack of Rome, <a href="#Pg200" class="tei tei-ref">200</a>, <a href="#Pg205" class="tei tei-ref">205</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Salt-cellar: design for, <a href="#Pg217" class="tei tei-ref">217</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Salvestro da Montanto, <a href="#Pg226" class="tei tei-ref">226</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Salvestro: jeweller, <a href="#Pg116" class="tei tei-ref">116</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Salviati: Alamano, <a href="#Pg30" class="tei tei-ref">30</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Salviati: Cardinal, <a href="#Pg244" class="tei tei-ref">244</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Salviati: Cecchino, rescues fragments of the arm of the David, <a href="#Pg117" class="tei tei-ref">117</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Salviati: Michael Angelo, father of Cecchino, <a href="#Pg117" class="tei tei-ref">117</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Salviati: Jacopo, <a href="#Pg192" class="tei tei-ref">192</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sanazzaro, <a href="#Pg76" class="tei tei-ref">76</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sangallo; Antonio da, <a href="#Pg34" class="tei tei-ref">34</a>, <a href="#Pg47" class="tei tei-ref">47</a>, <a href="#Pg85" class="tei tei-ref">85</a>, <a href="#Pg116" class="tei tei-ref">116</a>, <a href="#Pg237" class="tei tei-ref">237</a>, <a href="#Pg238" class="tei tei-ref">238</a>, <a href="#Pg240" class="tei tei-ref">240</a>-<a href="#Pg242" class="tei tei-ref">242</a>, <a href="#Pg259" class="tei tei-ref">259</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sangallo: Aristotele, assistant, <a href="#Pg151" class="tei tei-ref">151</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sangallo: Ginliano da, <a href="#Pg116" class="tei tei-ref">116</a>, <a href="#Pg141" class="tei tei-ref">141</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">San Gallo: Porta, <a href="#Pg200" class="tei tei-ref">200</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sansovino: Andrea del Monte a, <a href="#Pg27" class="tei tei-ref">27</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sansovino: Jacopo, <a href="#Pg263" class="tei tei-ref">263</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Santa Croce: Cardinal, <a href="#Pg84" class="tei tei-ref">84</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Santa Croce: Florence, <a href="#Pg253" class="tei tei-ref">253</a>, <a href="#Pg260" class="tei tei-ref">260</a>-<a href="#Pg262" class="tei tei-ref">262</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Santarelli: sculptor, discovers a statue, <a href="#Pg108" class="tei tei-ref">108</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Santiquattro: Cardinal, <a href="#Pg61" class="tei tei-ref">61</a>, <a href="#Pg52" class="tei tei-ref">52</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sarto: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Andrea<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Savonarola: <br /> +the master's affection for, <a href="#Pg87" class="tei tei-ref">87</a>; <br /> +his sermons, <a href="#Pg106" class="tei tei-ref">106</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Scaffolding: <br /> +designed by the master, <a href="#Pg82" class="tei tei-ref">82</a>;<br /> +drawing of, <a href="#Pg98" class="tei tei-ref">98</a>; <br /> +fall from, <a href="#Pg218" class="tei tei-ref">218</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Schongauer: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Martin Scipio, <a href="#Pg84" class="tei tei-ref">84</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Scourging of Christ: drawn for Sebastiano, <a href="#Pg101" class="tei tei-ref">101</a>, <a href="#Pg265" class="tei tei-ref">265</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sebastiano del Piombo, <a href="#Pg101" class="tei tei-ref">101</a>: <br /> +a walk in Rome, <a href="#Pg121" class="tei tei-ref">121</a>;<br /> +letters from, <a href="#Pg185" class="tei tei-ref">185</a>, <a href="#Pg187" class="tei tei-ref">187</a>, <a href="#Pg188" class="tei tei-ref">188</a>, <a href="#Pg205" class="tei tei-ref">205</a>;<br /> +portrait of Doria, <a href="#Pg191" class="tei tei-ref">191</a>;<br /> +letter to, <a href="#Pg197" class="tei tei-ref">197</a>;<br /> +prepares the wall for the Day of Judgment, <a href="#Pg217" class="tei tei-ref">217</a>, <a href="#Pg231" class="tei tei-ref">231</a>, <a href="#Pg238" class="tei tei-ref">238</a>, <a href="#Pg253" class="tei tei-ref">253</a>, note;<br /> +his genial humour, <a href="#Pg264" class="tei tei-ref">264</a>;<br /> +designs for, <a href="#Pg265" class="tei tei-ref">265</a>, <a href="#Pg292" class="tei tei-ref">292</a>, <a href="#Pg314" class="tei tei-ref">314</a>, <a href="#Pg327" class="tei tei-ref">327</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Setta Sangallesca, <a href="#Pg237" class="tei tei-ref">237</a>, <a href="#Pg242" class="tei tei-ref">242</a>-<a href="#Pg245" class="tei tei-ref">245</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Settignano: the master nursed at, <a href="#Pg6" class="tei tei-ref">6</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sibyls, <a href="#Pg42" class="tei tei-ref">42</a>, <a href="#Pg45" class="tei tei-ref">45</a>, <a href="#Pg164" class="tei tei-ref">164</a>, <a href="#Pg166" class="tei tei-ref">166</a>-<a href="#Pg170" class="tei tei-ref">170</a>, <a href="#Pg176" class="tei tei-ref">176</a>-<a href="#Pg178" class="tei tei-ref">178</a>;<br /> +by Raphael, <a href="#Pg177" class="tei tei-ref">177</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Siege of Florence, <a href="#Pg201" class="tei tei-ref">201</a>, <a href="#Pg205" class="tei tei-ref">205</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Siena, <a href="#Pg273" class="tei tei-ref">273</a>, <a href="#Pg292" class="tei tei-ref">292</a>, <a href="#Pg327" class="tei tei-ref">327</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sigismondo: a brother, <a href="#Pg109" class="tei tei-ref">109</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Signorelli: <br /> +Luca, pictures in the Uffizi, <a href="#Pg123" class="tei tei-ref">123</a>;<br /> +and Sistine Chapel, <a href="#Pg166" class="tei tei-ref">166</a>;<br /> +slight influence of, <a href="#Pg123" class="tei tei-ref">123</a>, <a href="#Pg124" class="tei tei-ref">124</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Silvester: San, at Monte Cavallo, <a href="#Pg271" class="tei tei-ref">271</a>-<a href="#Pg327" class="tei tei-ref">327</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Simone da Canossa: ancestor, <a href="#Pg4" class="tei tei-ref">4</a>, <a href="#Pg6" class="tei tei-ref">6</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sin of Ham, <a href="#Pg164" class="tei tei-ref">164</a>, <a href="#Pg170" class="tei tei-ref">170</a>, <a href="#Pg174" class="tei tei-ref">174</a>, <a href="#Pg179" class="tei tei-ref">179</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sistine Chapel, <a href="#Pg41" class="tei tei-ref">41</a>-49, <a href="#Pg167" class="tei tei-ref">167</a>-<a href="#Pg180" class="tei tei-ref">180</a>, <a href="#Pg210" class="tei tei-ref">210</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sixtus IV.: Pope, <a href="#Pg41" class="tei tei-ref">41</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Slaves: the two, marble statues, given to Strozzi, <a href="#Pg89" class="tei tei-ref">89</a>, <a href="#Pg129" class="tei tei-ref">129</a>, <a href="#Pg116" class="tei tei-ref">116</a>; <a href="#Pg182" class="tei tei-ref">182</a>, <a href="#Pg216" class="tei tei-ref">216</a>, <a href="#Pg225" class="tei tei-ref">225</a>, <a href="#Pg227" class="tei tei-ref">227</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Snow: a statue in, <a href="#Pg15" class="tei tei-ref">15</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Socrates, <a href="#Pg87" class="tei tei-ref">87</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Soderini: Cardinal, <a href="#Pg39" class="tei tei-ref">39</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Soderini: <br /> +Pier, Gonfaloniere, <a href="#Pg28" class="tei tei-ref">28</a>, <a href="#Pg36" class="tei tei-ref">36</a>, <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page346">[pg 346]</span><a name="Pg346" id="Pg346" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a href="#Pg37" class="tei tei-ref">37</a>, <a href="#Pg97" class="tei tei-ref">96</a>, <a href="#Pg97" class="tei tei-ref">97</a>;<br /> +his criticism of the David, <a href="#Pg118" class="tei tei-ref">118</a>, <a href="#Pg132" class="tei tei-ref">132</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Solari: Cristoforo, Il Gobbo, <a href="#Pg113" class="tei tei-ref">113</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Spain, <a href="#Pg200" class="tei tei-ref">200</a>, <a href="#Pg312" class="tei tei-ref">312</a>, <a href="#Pg313" class="tei tei-ref">313</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Spanish Chapel, <a href="#Pg99" class="tei tei-ref">99</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Spedalingo: head of the hospital of S.M. Nuova, <a href="#Pg157" class="tei tei-ref">157</a>, <a href="#Pg181" class="tei tei-ref">181</a>, <a href="#Pg182" class="tei tei-ref">182</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Spina: <br /> +Giovanni, to pay a provision to the master, <a href="#Pg192" class="tei tei-ref">192</a>;<br /> +letter to, <a href="#Pg194" class="tei tei-ref">194</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Spirito: Santo, a crucifix for, <a href="#Pg16" class="tei tei-ref">16</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Spoleto, <a href="#Pg256" class="tei tei-ref">256</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Staccoli: Hieronimo, his letter to the Duke of Camerino, <a href="#Pg217" class="tei tei-ref">217</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Stairway to the Library, <a href="#Pg250" class="tei tei-ref">250</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Stanze: of the Vatican, <a href="#Pg263" class="tei tei-ref">263</a>, <a href="#Pg270" class="tei tei-ref">270</a>, <a href="#Pg271" class="tei tei-ref">271</a>, <a href="#Pg292" class="tei tei-ref">292</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Stefano: di Tomaso, <a href="#Pg191" class="tei tei-ref">191</a>, <a href="#Pg192" class="tei tei-ref">192</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Strozzi: Filippo, a sword hilt given to, <a href="#Pg136" class="tei tei-ref">136</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Strozzi: Giovan Battista, verses on the Night, <a href="#Pg218" class="tei tei-ref">218</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Strozzi: Lorenzo, <a href="#Pg161" class="tei tei-ref">161</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Strozzi Palace: the Hercules there until the siege, <a href="#Pg105" class="tei tei-ref">105</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Strozzi: Roberto, Slaves given to, <a href="#Pg88" class="tei tei-ref">88</a>, <a href="#Pg89" class="tei tei-ref">89</a>, <a href="#Pg227" class="tei tei-ref">227</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Stufa: Luigi della, a colossus to spoil the front of his palace, <a href="#Pg198" class="tei tei-ref">198</a>, <a href="#Pg199" class="tei tei-ref">199</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sword-hilt: designed for Aldobrandini but given to Strozzi, <a href="#Pg186" class="tei tei-ref">186</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Tapestry: Raphael's cartoons for, <a href="#Pg167" class="tei tei-ref">167</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Tasio: wood-carver, <a href="#Pg197" class="tei tei-ref">197</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Taro: river, <a href="#Pg193" class="tei tei-ref">193</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Tè: Palazzo del, <a href="#Pg263" class="tei tei-ref">263</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Teridade: King, <a href="#Pg294" class="tei tei-ref">294</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Terribilità: the master's, <a href="#Pg101" class="tei tei-ref">101</a>, <a href="#Pg117" class="tei tei-ref">117</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Teyler Museum: Haarlem, <a href="#Pg253" class="tei tei-ref">253</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Tiber, <a href="#Pg193" class="tei tei-ref">193</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Tiberio Calcagni, <a href="#Pg249" class="tei tei-ref">249</a>;<br /> +letter to Lionardo, <a href="#Pg257" class="tei tei-ref">257</a>, <a href="#Pg258" class="tei tei-ref">258</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ticino: river, <a href="#Pg193" class="tei tei-ref">193</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Titian: his later work, <a href="#Pg230" class="tei tei-ref">230</a>, <a href="#Pg290" class="tei tei-ref">290</a>, <a href="#Pg327" class="tei tei-ref">327</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Tityos: drawing, <a href="#Pg231" class="tei tei-ref">231</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Tolemei: Claudio, <a href="#Pg85" class="tei tei-ref">85</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Tomaso: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Cavalieri<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Tomaso: of Prato, attorney, <a href="#Pg62" class="tei tei-ref">62</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Tomb of Julius: <br /> +first design, <a href="#Pg30" class="tei tei-ref">30</a>-33, <a href="#Pg128" class="tei tei-ref">128</a>, <a href="#Pg129" class="tei tei-ref">129</a>;<br /> +description, <a href="#Pg67" class="tei tei-ref">67</a>;<br /> +moneys received for, <a href="#Pg69" class="tei tei-ref">69</a>, <a href="#Pg183" class="tei tei-ref">183</a>, <a href="#Pg186" class="tei tei-ref">186</a>;<br /> +the master's desire to complete it, <a href="#Pg191" class="tei tei-ref">191</a>;<br /> +and trouble concerning it, <a href="#Pg194" class="tei tei-ref">194</a>, <a href="#Pg205" class="tei tei-ref">205</a>, <a href="#Pg207" class="tei tei-ref">207</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Tondi: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Madonna and Child<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Topolino: Domenico Fancelli, letter to, <a href="#Pg190" class="tei tei-ref">190</a>; <a href="#Pg264" class="tei tei-ref">264</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Torrigiano: <br /> +strikes the master, <a href="#Pg91" class="tei tei-ref">91</a>;<br /> +his history, <a href="#Pg92" class="tei tei-ref">92</a>;<br /> +a St. Francis by, <a href="#Pg114" class="tei tei-ref">114</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Tribolo: studied the Cartoon, <a href="#Pg127" class="tei tei-ref">127</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Trinità de' Monti, <a href="#Pg253" class="tei tei-ref">253</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Tromboncini: Bartolomeo, music to the madrigals, <a href="#Pg207" class="tei tei-ref">207</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Turk: The Grand, invites the master, <a href="#Pg37" class="tei tei-ref">37</a>, <a href="#Pg78" class="tei tei-ref">78</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Uffizi: <br /> +Florence, the painted tondo, <a href="#Pg29" class="tei tei-ref">29</a>, <a href="#Pg122" class="tei tei-ref">122</a>;<br /> +the dancing Faun, <a href="#Pg175" class="tei tei-ref">175</a>;<br /> +Signorelli's pictures <a href="#Pg123" class="tei tei-ref">123</a>;<br /> +drawings, <a href="#Pg193" class="tei tei-ref">193</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Urbino: Francesco, <a href="#Pg255" class="tei tei-ref">255</a>, <a href="#Pg256" class="tei tei-ref">256</a>, <a href="#Pg273" class="tei tei-ref">273</a>, <a href="#Pg314" class="tei tei-ref">314</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Urbino: <br /> +Francesco Maria, Duke of, finds fault with the slow progress of the Tomb of Julius II., <a href="#Pg55" class="tei tei-ref">55</a>, <a href="#Pg62" class="tei tei-ref">62</a>-64;<br /> +Paul III. arranges a new contract, <a href="#Pg67" class="tei tei-ref">67</a>, <a href="#Pg69" class="tei tei-ref">69</a>, <a href="#Pg207" class="tei tei-ref">207</a>;<br /> +final contract, <a href="#Pg225" class="tei tei-ref">225</a>, <a href="#Pg226" class="tei tei-ref">226</a>, <a href="#Pg290" class="tei tei-ref">290</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Urbino: the master thinks of retiring to, <a href="#Pg66" class="tei tei-ref">66</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Urbino: the Palace of the Duke, <a href="#Pg290" class="tei tei-ref">290</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Valdarno, <a href="#Pg264" class="tei tei-ref">264</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Valori: Baccio, the Apollo presented to, <a href="#Pg205" class="tei tei-ref">205</a>, <a href="#Pg207" class="tei tei-ref">207</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Valentino: Duke, sends the god of Love to Mantua, <a href="#Pg22" class="tei tei-ref">22</a>, <a href="#Pg23" class="tei tei-ref">23</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Valerio Cioli, <a href="#Pg262" class="tei tei-ref">262</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Valerio de Vincença, <a href="#Pg270" class="tei tei-ref">270</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Valpaio: Benvenuto, <a href="#Pg207" class="tei tei-ref">207</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Valuation of works of art, <a href="#Pg314" class="tei tei-ref">314</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Vansitelli, <a href="#Pg251" class="tei tei-ref">251</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Varchi: <br /> +Lectures and criticisms on the sonnets, <a href="#Pg86" class="tei tei-ref">86</a>;<br /> +oration, <a href="#Pg262" class="tei tei-ref">262</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Vari: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Metello<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Vasari: <br /> +Giorgio, his famous book, <a href="#Pg92" class="tei tei-ref">92</a>, <a href="#Pg97" class="tei tei-ref">97</a>, <a href="#Pg98" class="tei tei-ref">98</a>;<br /> +preserves the broken fragments of the arm of the David, <a href="#Pg117" class="tei tei-ref">117</a>;<br /> +the story of the Gonfaloniere, <a href="#Pg118" class="tei tei-ref">118</a>;<br /> +the St. Matthew, <a href="#Pg120" class="tei tei-ref">120</a>;<br /> +the tondi, <a href="#Pg121" class="tei tei-ref">121</a>, <a href="#Pg122" class="tei tei-ref">122</a>;<br /> +the Cartoon, <a href="#Pg126" class="tei tei-ref">126</a>;<br /> +seventeen statues for the Tomb of Julius completed, <a href="#Pg130" class="tei tei-ref">130</a>;<br /> +a list of assistants, <a href="#Pg150" class="tei tei-ref">150</a>, <a href="#Pg151" class="tei tei-ref">151</a>;<br /> +his fable of the vault, <a href="#Pg158" class="tei tei-ref">158</a>, <a href="#Pg163" class="tei tei-ref">163</a>;<br /> +the Apollo, <a href="#Pg204" class="tei tei-ref">204</a>;<br /> +he completes the works at San Lorenzo, <a href="#Pg209" class="tei tei-ref">209</a>, <a href="#Pg211" class="tei tei-ref">211</a>;<br /> +how Sebastiano prepared the wall, <a href="#Pg217" class="tei tei-ref">217</a>;<br /> +the master's fall, <a href="#Pg218" class="tei tei-ref">218</a>;<br /> +the Day of Judgment, <a href="#Pg222" class="tei tei-ref">222</a>;<br /> +the Cappella Paolino, <a href="#Pg232" class="tei tei-ref">232</a>;<br /> +he sees the master<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page347">[pg 347]</span><a name="Pg347" id="Pg347" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> working at night, <a href="#Pg235" class="tei tei-ref">235</a>;<br /> +a Pietà, <a href="#Pg237" class="tei tei-ref">237</a>;<br /> +the cornice, <a href="#Pg238" class="tei tei-ref">238</a>;<br /> +St. Peter's, <a href="#Pg241" class="tei tei-ref">241</a>;<br /> +plots, <a href="#Pg243" class="tei tei-ref">243</a>;<br /> +the bridge of Nanni, <a href="#Pg245" class="tei tei-ref">245</a>;<br /> +the church for the Florentines in Rome, <a href="#Pg249" class="tei tei-ref">249</a>;<br /> +the medal of Leone, <a href="#Pg252" class="tei tei-ref">252</a>;<br /> +he holds another Buonarroto at the font, <a href="#Pg255" class="tei tei-ref">255</a>;<br /> +a letter to, referring to the death of Urbino, <a href="#Pg255" class="tei tei-ref">255</a>, <a href="#Pg256" class="tei tei-ref">256</a>;<br /> +the master's will, <a href="#Pg269" class="tei tei-ref">269</a>;<br /> +he receives the master's body in Florence, <a href="#Pg260" class="tei tei-ref">260</a>;<br /> +and describes the opening of the coffin in Santa Croce, <a href="#Pg261" class="tei tei-ref">261</a>;<br /> +and the obsequies at San Lorenzo, <a href="#Pg262" class="tei tei-ref">262</a>;<br /> +he designs the Tomb, <a href="#Pg262" class="tei tei-ref">262</a>;<br /> +and enumerates the pupils, <a href="#Pg263" class="tei tei-ref">263</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Vauban: studies the fortifications at San Miniato, <a href="#Pg203" class="tei tei-ref">203</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Vault: <br /> +of the Sistine Chapel, <a href="#Pg41" class="tei tei-ref">41</a>-49;<br /> +works begun, <a href="#Pg149" class="tei tei-ref">149</a>;<br /> +painting begins, <a href="#Pg151" class="tei tei-ref">151</a>;<br /> +assistants dismissed, <a href="#Pg156" class="tei tei-ref">156</a>;<br /> +mould on the fresco, <a href="#Pg161" class="tei tei-ref">161</a>;<br /> +exposed to view, <a href="#Pg163" class="tei tei-ref">163</a>;<br /> +finished, <a href="#Pg165" class="tei tei-ref">165</a>;<br /> +a description, <a href="#Pg167" class="tei tei-ref">167</a>-<a href="#Pg179" class="tei tei-ref">179</a>, <a href="#Pg291" class="tei tei-ref">291</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Vecchio: <br /> +Palazzo, <a href="#Pg116" class="tei tei-ref">116</a>;<br /> +cartoon for, <a href="#Pg124" class="tei tei-ref">124</a>;<br /> +Bandinelli's Hercules and Cacus, <a href="#Pg204" class="tei tei-ref">204</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Venice: <br /> +the master invited to, <a href="#Pg78" class="tei tei-ref">78</a>;<br /> +flees to, <a href="#Pg202" class="tei tei-ref">202</a>;<br /> +Sebastiano refers to, <a href="#Pg206" class="tei tei-ref">206</a>, <a href="#Pg290" class="tei tei-ref">290</a>, <a href="#Pg327" class="tei tei-ref">327</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Venusti: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Marcello<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Victory: the, a marble statue in the Bargello, <a href="#Pg129" class="tei tei-ref">129</a>, <a href="#Pg228" class="tei tei-ref">228</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Vincenzo: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Borghini<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Vinci: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Lionardo<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Vincula: <br /> +San Pietro in, Bramante's work needs support, <a href="#Pg32" class="tei tei-ref">32</a>;<br /> +the Moses placed in, <a href="#Pg33" class="tei tei-ref">33</a><br /> +Virgil, <a href="#Pg76" class="tei tei-ref">76</a>, <a href="#Pg298" class="tei tei-ref">298</a>, <a href="#Pg303" class="tei tei-ref">303</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Vitelli: Alessandro, <a href="#Pg60" class="tei tei-ref">60</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Viterbo: <br /> +Vittoria Colonna visits, <a href="#Pg85" class="tei tei-ref">85</a>, <a href="#Pg240" class="tei tei-ref">240</a>;<br /> +the Pietà by Sebastiano, <a href="#Pg265" class="tei tei-ref">265</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Vitruvius, <a href="#Pg237" class="tei tei-ref">237</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Vittoria: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Colonna<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Volterra: Cardinal, letter from Soderini to, <a href="#Pg132" class="tei tei-ref">132</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Volterra: <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">see</span></span> Daniele<br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Windsor: drawings, <a href="#Pg230" class="tei tei-ref">230</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Works of art in the house of the master when he died, <a href="#Pg259" class="tei tei-ref">259</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zanobi: Via San, <a href="#Pg184" class="tei tei-ref">184</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zanobi: Mona, land near her estate, <a href="#Pg135" class="tei tei-ref">135</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zapata: Diogo, <a href="#Pg289" class="tei tei-ref">289</a><br /></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zeuxis, <a href="#Pg315" class="tei tei-ref">315</a><br /></p> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Printed by <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.</span></span></p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">London & Edinburgh</p> + +</div> + +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-back" style="margin-bottom: 2.00em; margin-top: 6.00em"> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em"> +<dl class="tei tei-list-footnotes"><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_1" name="note_1" href="#noteref_1">1.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">For convenience of reference the chapters in the two parts are +divided so as to cover the same periods of time in the life of the master.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_2" name="note_2" href="#noteref_2">2.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Count Alessandro da Canossa acknowledged relationship to +Michael Angelo in a letter, dated October 4, 1520 (Gotti, i. 4), addressing +the master as "honoured kinsman," but the relationship +cannot now be proved. The ancestors of Michael Angelo have been +traced to one Bernardo who died before the year 1228, and they played +their part as citizens of Florence, no mean city, for more than two +hundred years—a noble pedigree even for Michael Angelo.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_3" name="note_3" href="#noteref_3">3.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A paid magistrate or mayor, generally from a neighbouring town +or country and not a citizen of the place where he was on duty.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_4" name="note_4" href="#noteref_4">4.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Caprese is made up of scattered hamlets and farmhouses near +Arezzo, upon the watershed between the Tiber and the Arno.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_5" name="note_5" href="#noteref_5">5.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Upon March 6, 1475, according to our present reckoning, Lodovico +wrote in his note-book:</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"I record that on this day, March 6, 1474, a male child was born to +me. I gave him the name of Michael Angelo, and he was born on a +Monday morning four or five hours before daybreak, and he was born +while I was Podestà of Caprese, and he was born at Caprese; and the +godfathers were those I have named below. He was baptized on the +eighth of the same month in the Church of San Giovanni at Caprese." +Then follow the godfathers; there are ten of them.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_6" name="note_6" href="#noteref_6">6.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Maestro Francesco only taught Michael Angelo to read and write +in the vulgar tongue, for his pupil complained in after life that he +knew no Latin; this was not Francesco's fault, for his pupil soon followed +his friend's—another Francesco—influence and neglected literature +for the art that made him famous.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_7" name="note_7" href="#noteref_7">7.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ghirlandaio, born 1449, died 1494.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_8" name="note_8" href="#noteref_8">8.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Martin Schongauer, born at Colmar about 1450, died 1488.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_9" name="note_9" href="#noteref_9">9.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When Michael Angelo was thirteen years old Lodovico gave in to +his wishes and apprenticed him to Domenico Ghirlandajo (he was +called Ghirlandajo because as a goldsmith he had made garlands of +golden leaves for the brows of the Florentine ladies) upon the unusual +terms set forth in the following minute from Domenico's ledger under +the date 1488:</p> + + <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"I record this first of April how that I, + Lodovico di Lionardo di Buonarrota, bind my son Michael Angelo to + Domenico and Davit di Tommaso di Currado for the next three ensuing + years, under these conditions and contracts: to wit that the said + Michael Angelo shall stay with the above-named masters during this + time, to learn the art of painting, and to practise the same, and + to be at the order of the above-named; and they for their part, + shall give him in the course of these three years twenty-four + florins (fiorini di Sagello, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">£</span></span>8 12<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">s.</span></span>); to wit, six florins in the first year, + eight in the second, ten in the third, making in all the sum of + ninety-six pounds (lire)."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A note of April 16, 1488, records that two florins were paid to +Michael Angelo upon that day. The total sum is estimated by Gotti +(p. 6, note) to equal 206.40 lira present value—about <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">£</span></span>8 12<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">s.</span></span> It was +usual for apprentices to pay a sum to their masters rather than to be +paid.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_10" name="note_10" href="#noteref_10">10.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Drawings, even by old masters, were of no pecuniary value in +those days; they were merely kept for use in the workshop. The +fashion of collecting drawings for their own sake was invented by +Giorgio Vasari some sixty years later.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_11" name="note_11" href="#noteref_11">11.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">There is a mask of a grinning faun to be seen in the Bargello at +Florence, attributed to Michael Angelo and said to be this his first work +in sculpture. It does not correspond with either the account of Vasari +or of Condivi; it is a poor and ugly piece of work, and shows no sign +whatever of the early style of Michael Angelo, but is more likely a work +of a later period by some one who had seen the mask under the left +arm of "The Night" on the tomb of Lorenzo at San Lorenzo.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_12" name="note_12" href="#noteref_12">12.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"During this time Michael Angelo received from the Magnifico an +allowance of five ducats per month, and was furthermore presented for +his gratification with a violet-coloured mantle. But, indeed, all the +young men who studied in the gardens received stipends of greater or +less amount from the liberality of that Magnificent and most noble +citizen, being constantly encouraged and rewarded by him whilst he +lived." (Vasari.)</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_13" name="note_13" href="#noteref_13">13.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Many motives from antique gems may be traced in the art of +Michael Angelo, such as the Judith and her maid, some of the athletes +the Leda, and even the Adam.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_14" name="note_14" href="#noteref_14">14.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lorenzo died upon the eighth day of April, 1492.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_15" name="note_15" href="#noteref_15">15.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Equal to-day to 20.60 lire—about seventeen shillings.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_16" name="note_16" href="#noteref_16">16.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Nineteen and a quarter inches according to the measurements of +Heath Wilson ("Michael Angelo and his Works," p. 17, ed. 1881). This +relief is in the Casa Buonarroti, Florence.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_17" name="note_17" href="#noteref_17">17.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We have no record of this work, and its whereabouts is not +known.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_18" name="note_18" href="#noteref_18">18.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The boy, Michael Angelo, probably enjoyed this frolic and its +attendant festivities as much as Piero, he could not have done much +other work in the dungeon-like studios of Florence in such cold weather. +This incident has been regarded as an insult to the artist and a sign of +Piero's want of taste. Michael Angelo cannot have felt aggrieved as he +stayed on at the palace. Condivi relates that he remained "some +months." Piero should rather be blamed for not employing his artist +guest upon some more lasting work also.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_19" name="note_19" href="#noteref_19">19.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Nothing is known as to the fate of this work, it is not now in the +church.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_20" name="note_20" href="#noteref_20">20.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Vasari states that Michael Angelo devoted much time to the study +of anatomy. "For the church of Santo Spirito, in Florence, Michael +Angelo made a crucifix in wood, which is placed over the lunette of the +high altar. This he did to please the Prior, who had given him a +room wherein he dissected many dead bodies, zealously studying +anatomy." (Vasari.)</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A pen drawing at Oxford shows us two students studying anatomy +at night; the body of the subject supports the torch; one student +holds a pair of compasses in his right hand for measuring the +proportions.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_21" name="note_21" href="#noteref_21">21.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Michael Angelo left Bologna hastily under fear of personal violence +from the sculptors and native craftsmen, who said he was taking +the bread out of their mouths, rather a strong compliment to a boy of +twenty.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_22" name="note_22" href="#noteref_22">22.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The dealer Baldassari del Milanese paid Michael Angelo thirty +ducats for this work, and sold it to Raffaello Riario, Cardinal di San +Giorgio, as an antique for two hundred ducats, an evidence, not of the +Cardinal's foolishness, but of Michael Angelo's careful study of the +antique.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_23" name="note_23" href="#noteref_23">23.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Cardinal S. Giorgio made Messer Baldassari refund the two +hundred ducats and take the Cupid back, so Michael Angelo got nothing +for his journey. Cesare Borgia presented this Cupid to Guidobaldo di +Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino. After Cesare Borgia sacked the town of +Urbino in 1592 he sent the Cupid to the Marchioness of Mantua, who +wrote on July 22, 1592, describing the Cupid as "without a peer among +the works of modern times." There is a sleeping Cupid at Mantua in +the Museo Civico, but it is not by Michael Angelo. Signor Fabriczy +holds that a Cupid preserved in the museum at Turin may be Michael +Angelo's original work, but the translator has not seen it.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_24" name="note_24" href="#noteref_24">24.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Michael Angelo arrived in Rome for the first time at the end +of June 1496, and wrote in July to Lorenzo di' Pier Francesco de' +Medici. The letter bears a superscription to Sandro Botticelli; historians +presume from this that it was not safe to write openly to any of the +Medici.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 1.00em">"2nd day of July, 1496.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"Magnificent Lorenzo,—I only write to inform you that last +Saturday we arrived safely, and went at once to visit the Cardinal di +San Giorgio; and I presented your letter to him. It appeared to me +that he was pleased to see me, and he expressed a wish that I should +go immediately to inspect his collection of statues. I spent the whole +day there, and for that reason was unable to deliver all your letters. +On Sunday the Cardinal came into the new house, and had me sent +for. I went to him, and he asked me what I thought about the things +I had seen. I replied by stating my opinion, and certainly I can say +with sincerity that there are many fine things in the collection. Then +he asked me if I had the courage to make some beautiful work. I +answered that I should not be able to achieve anything so great, but +that he should see what I could do. We have bought a piece of marble +for a life size statue, and on Monday I shall begin to work. On Monday +last I presented your other letter of recommendation to Rucellai, who +offered me what money I might want; also those to Cavalcanti. Afterwards +I gave your letter to Baldassare, and asked him for the child +(the sleeping Cupid), saying I was ready to refund his money. He +answered very roughly, swearing he would rather break it in a hundred +pieces; he had bought the child and it was his property; he possessed +writing which proved that he had satisfied the person who sent +it to him, and was under no apprehension that he should have to give +it up. Then he complained bitterly of you, saying that you had +spoken ill of him. Certain of our Florentines sought to accommodate +matters, but failed in their attempt. Now I look to coming to terms +through the Cardinal; for this is the advice of Baldassare Balducci. +What ensues I will report to you. No more by this. To you I recommend +myself. May God keep you from evil.</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 1.00em">"Michael Angelo, in Rome.</p> +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 1.00em">"To Sandro Botticelli, at Florence."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="text-align: right; margin-bottom: 1.00em">(Gotti, ii. 32.)</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_25" name="note_25" href="#noteref_25">25.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This ugly, but marvellously-finished statue is now in the western +corridor of the Uffizi, in Florence. See p. 107.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_26" name="note_26" href="#noteref_26">26.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">See p. 108.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_27" name="note_27" href="#noteref_27">27.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The work is now in the first chapel on the right in the nave of +the Basilica of Saint Peter's.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_28" name="note_28" href="#noteref_28">28.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Now in the Accademia delle Belle Arti of Florence, where it was +placed for its better preservation in 1831.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_29" name="note_29" href="#noteref_29">29.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Office of Works.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_30" name="note_30" href="#noteref_30">30.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Documents, copies of which are to be found in "Gaye," vol. ii. +pp. 454-464, go to prove that this sculptor was Agostino di Antonio di +Duccio, who was born in 1418 and died in 1481. He was the author of +the relief illustrating the life of S. Gemignano upon the façade of the +Duomo at Modena, and some of the beautiful and delicate marble +reliefs set in the polychromatic front of the Oratory of S. Bernardino at +Perugia, and the fairy-like low relief (bassissimi rilievi) panels that +decorate the interior of the temple of Malatesta at Rimini.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_31" name="note_31" href="#noteref_31">31.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Madonna and Child in the church of Notre Dame at Bruges, +identified as this work, is in marble. Vasari also states that the work +for the Moscheroni, Merchants of Bruges, was a bronze, but both +accounts were written fifty years after the event. Albert Dürer saw +this work in the church and mentions it as a marble statue in his +"Netherlands Diary," 1520-21.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_32" name="note_32" href="#noteref_32">32.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Now in the Tribuna of the Uffizi, Florence.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_33" name="note_33" href="#noteref_33">33.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Michael Angelo received payment for the cartoon probably in +Florence on February the 28th, 1505 ("Gaye," ii., p. 93), and he went +to Carrara in April of that year, so the delay was only two months, a +short enough time to prepare his great design.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_34" name="note_34" href="#noteref_34">34.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The right bank of the Tiber below Rome. On the opposite shore +is the Marmorata, where blocks of marble were unloaded in the times of +the ancient Romans; some are there to this day.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_35" name="note_35" href="#noteref_35">35.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The covered way from the Vatican to the Castle of Saint Angelo.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_36" name="note_36" href="#noteref_36">36.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Heath Wilson estimates the area it would have covered as 34-1/2 ft. +by 23 ft. (p. 74).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_37" name="note_37" href="#noteref_37">37.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Michael Angelo fled from Rome during the week after Easter, 1506. +He relates the circumstances in a letter of October 1542, No. c. d. xxxv. +"Le Lettere p. 489," which corroborates Condivi's story word for word, +and is another proof of the autobiographical nature of these memoirs.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_38" name="note_38" href="#noteref_38">38.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">No fragments of this cartoon remain; perhaps the best copy is +that in possession of the Earl of Leicester at Holkham Hall. See also +p. 124.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_39" name="note_39" href="#noteref_39">39.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Like the good Catholic he was, he went to hear mass as soon as +he had completed his journey; he always behaved as a good son of the +Church.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_40" name="note_40" href="#noteref_40">40.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This composition is generally known as the "Sacrifice of Noah," +see p. 172. Condivi evidently did not refer these descriptions to the +master, they are so full of curious individualities of his own.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_41" name="note_41" href="#noteref_41">41.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">That is the picture right.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_42" name="note_42" href="#noteref_42">42.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The picture right, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">i.e.</span></span>, the spectator's left.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_43" name="note_43" href="#noteref_43">43.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"To bloom," as a painter of to-day would say.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_44" name="note_44" href="#noteref_44">44.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">See p. 163.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_45" name="note_45" href="#noteref_45">45.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">See pp. 147-165 and 183. The first half may be estimated to have +taken eight months and a few days, and the second half from January +1510 to October 1512, with intervals for journeys to Florence, to Bologna, +and other interruptions.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_46" name="note_46" href="#noteref_46">46.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">That is professional assistance by artists or pupils. Workmen +were employed to plaster each day's section of work, writers to do the +lettering, and even decorative workmen for architectural details.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_47" name="note_47" href="#noteref_47">47.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">These quarries are in the Alpi Apuane near Viareggio, we are +informed by a modern Florentine sculptor that this marble is of +excellent quality.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_48" name="note_48" href="#noteref_48">48.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">See pp. 183-185.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_49" name="note_49" href="#noteref_49">49.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This column was still lying in the Piazza of San Lorenzo in 1888; +it has now been removed.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_50" name="note_50" href="#noteref_50">50.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Michael Angelo's love for Lorenzo the Magnificent never abated, +and these tombs may be regarded as a tribute to his early patron's +memory. He worked upon them in secret during the siege itself.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_51" name="note_51" href="#noteref_51">51.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Condivi had not seen this sacristy and described it merely from +the fragmentary recollections of the master.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_52" name="note_52" href="#noteref_52">52.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Possibly in the Duke's collection there may have been an antique +gem engraved with the story of Leda which influenced Michael Angelo +in his choice of this classical subject for the picture he painted for the +Duke.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_53" name="note_53" href="#noteref_53">53.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The best version of this picture is in one the offices of the National +Gallery, London; it is probably the much restored original which was +supposed to have been destroyed by order of M. Desnoyers. See p. 204.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_54" name="note_54" href="#noteref_54">54.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Francis I.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_55" name="note_55" href="#noteref_55">55.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Afterwards Cardinal Pole, Papal Legate in the time of King +Henry VIII. and Queen Mary I., born at Stourton Castle, Staffordshire, +1500; died November 18, 1558.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_56" name="note_56" href="#noteref_56">56.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Slaves, now in the Louvre, Paris.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_57" name="note_57" href="#noteref_57">57.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The ox, in Italian banter, appears to have taken the position of +the ass with us in England, as a dull, heavy beast, a fool. Michael +Angelo's answer was, as it were: "It is according to the asses you +mean; if it be these asses of Bolognese doubtless they are much +bigger; if ours of Florence they are much smaller. You are bigger +asses in Bologna than we are in Florence."</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_58" name="note_58" href="#noteref_58">58.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Piero Torrigiano gave his version of the affair to Benvenuto Cellini +long afterwards: "This Buonarroti and I used, when we were boys, to +go into the Church of the Carmine to learn drawing from the Chapel of +Masaccio. It was Buonarroti's habit to banter all who were drawing +there, and one day, when he was annoying me, I got more angry than +usual, and, clenching my fist, I gave him such a blow on the nose that +I felt bone and cartilage go down like biscuit beneath my knuckles; +and this mark of mine he will carry with him to his grave." Cellini +adds—"These words begat in me such hatred of the man since I was +always gazing at the masterpieces of the divine Michael Angelo, that, +although I felt a wish to go with him to England, I now could never +bear the sight of him."</p> + +<p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Torrigiano worked for Henry VIII. of England in Henry VII. +chapel, Westminster, and at Hampton Court. Afterwards he went to +Spain and came to a bad end there, as Condivi says. He died in the +prisons of the Inquisition, he had been condemned for destroying a +figure of the Madonna of his own carving; his patron paid him +insufficiently, so he went to the house, hammer in hand, and destroyed +the statue, with this unfortunate result. He starved himself to death in +prison as a worse fate awaited him. See Vasari.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_59" name="note_59" href="#noteref_59">59.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Can this refer to the Second Edition of "The Lives of the Painters, +Sculptors, and Architects," by the kindly Giorgio Vasari?</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_60" name="note_60" href="#noteref_60">60.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">--<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Temptation of Saint Anthony</span></span>, from the engraving by Martin +Schongauer.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_61" name="note_61" href="#noteref_61">61.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ghirlandaio.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_62" name="note_62" href="#noteref_62">62.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">There is a drawing in the Louvre of a faun's head, in pen and +ink, by Michael Angelo, over a red chalk drawing by an inferior hand. +It does not appear to be this drawing mentioned by Vasari, but a +caprice possibly of the same period, in which the master has undertaken +to draw a head with a pen, in which the projections and indentations of +the profile shall contradict the outline of the conventional red chalk +drawing below.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_63" name="note_63" href="#noteref_63">63.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Vasari tells us that one of these pulpits had not been placed in its +position in the church even when Michael Angelo's funeral service was +held there in 1564, so it is quite likely that it was still in the workshop +in 1489.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_64" name="note_64" href="#noteref_64">64.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">That is the Hellenic work of the degenerate Greeks in Italy: all +that was to be seen in his day.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_65" name="note_65" href="#noteref_65">65.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Page 10.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_66" name="note_66" href="#noteref_66">66.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">All the works of Michael Angelo, whether sculpture, painting, or +drawing partake of the nature of bas-relief, that old Tuscan art +developed to such good purpose by the Florentines. The marks of his +chisel hatch out the forms and develop the planes just as the parallel +strokes of his pen cut out the reliefs of his drawings from the paper. His +method of sculpture in the round was that of a carver of bas-reliefs. +He gradually cut away the background more and more until the relief +was actually the highest relief possible, the round. Every piece of +sculpture Michael Angelo executed is the better for a background, +whether niche or wall, for they all partake of this bas-relief nature; +and his paintings and drawings may every one of them be thought of +as bas-reliefs, and so it is with all the works of the Florentines, his +contemporaries and predecessors. Space and distance never entered +into their calculations before the time of Piero di Cosimo and his pupil +Andrea del Sarto, and even then with but indifferent results. They +were all content with the flat bas-relief effects familiar to them in the +gates of the Baptistry and the jewel-like decorations of the Campanile. +Their favourite problem was the expression of force by form, and no +art was so useful for that purpose as bas-relief, because of its fixed +main lines of composition and its absolute power of expressing the +detail of the action of muscle and bone.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_67" name="note_67" href="#noteref_67">67.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Leonardo may have shown it to Vasari also as an early work of +the master's; Condivi does not mention it.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_68" name="note_68" href="#noteref_68">68.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The cast of an angel from this shrine at the Victoria and Albert +Museum, South Kensington, is not from the one carved by Michael +Angelo, nor is it of his school as the label states; it is probably by +Nicolo del Arca. Michael Angelo's figure is the companion angel on +the other side of the altar.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_69" name="note_69" href="#noteref_69">69.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">See p. 21.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_70" name="note_70" href="#noteref_70">70.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Probably because it was dangerous to write to any member of the +Medici family. It proves to us that Michael Angelo and Sandro +Botticelli were on confidential terms.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_71" name="note_71" href="#noteref_71">71.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">See p. 24.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_72" name="note_72" href="#noteref_72">72.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">See p. 25.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_73" name="note_73" href="#noteref_73">73.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Vol. i. p. 22.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_74" name="note_74" href="#noteref_74">74.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The "Monte di Pietà" is a savings-bank and pawn-broker's, +established by the state or city.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_75" name="note_75" href="#noteref_75">75.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere, ii. p. 4.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_76" name="note_76" href="#noteref_76">76.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Gotti, ii. p. 33 (Archivio Buonarroti).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_77" name="note_77" href="#noteref_77">77.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Nine cubits = 5.31 metres, or 13 feet 6 inches.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_78" name="note_78" href="#noteref_78">78.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Agostino di Duccio.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_79" name="note_79" href="#noteref_79">79.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Gotti estimates six golden florins at 57.60 francs, or about <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">£2 6s</span></span>.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_80" name="note_80" href="#noteref_80">80.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">S.C. 1504. See "Le Lettere," &c., p. 620.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_81" name="note_81" href="#noteref_81">81.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A contemporary account, Gotti, vol. i. p. 29.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_82" name="note_82" href="#noteref_82">82.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Firenze: Le Monnier, 1857, p. 197.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_83" name="note_83" href="#noteref_83">83.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Perkins "Tuscan Sculptors," vol. ii. p. 74.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_84" name="note_84" href="#noteref_84">84.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This reason given by Vasari for the use of various mediums is +just the sort of reason he would have had himself for using them. +Michael Angelo merely used different materials because it was the best +way of getting the different effects he wanted, or, sometimes possibly, +because they happened to be handy.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_85" name="note_85" href="#noteref_85">85.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We know how difficult it is to get facts about the works done a +few decades ago, even though the artists be still living; for instance, +how little we know of the cartoon competition held in Westminster +Hall in 1843, or the fresco of Justice painted by Mr. G.F. Watts, R.A., +in the New Hall of Lincoln's Inn.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_86" name="note_86" href="#noteref_86">86.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Gotti, i. p. 46 (in the Archivio Buonarroti).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_87" name="note_87" href="#noteref_87">87.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Gaye, vol. ii. pp. 83, 84, 85, 91, 93, gives all the correspondence.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_88" name="note_88" href="#noteref_88">88.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lettere, No. ccclxxxiii.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_89" name="note_89" href="#noteref_89">89.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">About fourteen feet, that is to say, at least three times the size of +life, as it was a sitting figure.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_90" name="note_90" href="#noteref_90">90.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lettere, No. xlviii. p. 61 (in the British Museum).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_91" name="note_91" href="#noteref_91">91.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere, No. 1. p. 65 (in the Archivio Buonarroti).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_92" name="note_92" href="#noteref_92">92.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">That is, Dame Zanobia.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_93" name="note_93" href="#noteref_93">93.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere, No. iv. p. 8 (in the British Museum).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_94" name="note_94" href="#noteref_94">94.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We should like to see it; we have nothing of Michael Angelo's +which can help us to imagine what this work was like.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_95" name="note_95" href="#noteref_95">95.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere, No. lx. p. 76 (in the British Museum).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_96" name="note_96" href="#noteref_96">96.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere, No. lxii. p. 78 (in the Archivio Buonarroti).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_97" name="note_97" href="#noteref_97">97.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere, No. lxiii. p. 79 (in the British Museum).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_98" name="note_98" href="#noteref_98">98.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere, No. lxiv. p. 80 (in the Archivio Buonarroto).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_99" name="note_99" href="#noteref_99">99.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Nephew of Antonio del Pollaiuolo.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_100" name="note_100" href="#noteref_100">100.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere, No. lxv. p. 81 (in the Archivio Buonarroto).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_101" name="note_101" href="#noteref_101">101.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere, No. lxxii. p. 88 (in the British Museum).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_102" name="note_102" href="#noteref_102">102.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere, No. lxxv. p. 91 (in the Archivio Buonarroti).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_103" name="note_103" href="#noteref_103">103.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lettere, No. ccclxxxiii. p. 426 (in the Archivio Buonarroti).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_104" name="note_104" href="#noteref_104">104.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere, No. c. (Ricordi) p. 563 (in the British Museum).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_105" name="note_105" href="#noteref_105">105.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the Buonarroti Archives; quoted by Heath Wilson, p. 123.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_106" name="note_106" href="#noteref_106">106.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">.<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Ibid.</span></span> p. 124.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_107" name="note_107" href="#noteref_107">107.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere, No. vii. p. 13 (in the British Museum).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_108" name="note_108" href="#noteref_108">108.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The head of the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence, where +Michael Angelo banked his money.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_109" name="note_109" href="#noteref_109">109.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">L'Indaco.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_110" name="note_110" href="#noteref_110">110.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere, No. x. p. 17 (in the British Museum).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_111" name="note_111" href="#noteref_111">111.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere xvii. p. 27 (in the British Museum).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_112" name="note_112" href="#noteref_112">112.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lorenzo Strozzi, to whose wool-shop Buonarroto went.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_113" name="note_113" href="#noteref_113">113.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lettere, No. lxxx. p. 97 (in the British Museum).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_114" name="note_114" href="#noteref_114">114.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lettere, No. lxxxi. p. 98 (in the British Museum).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_115" name="note_115" href="#noteref_115">115.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Albertini, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Mirabilia Urbis</span></span>, quoted by Grimm vol. i. p. 523. Albertini's +words are <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">pars testudinea superior</span></span>.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_116" name="note_116" href="#noteref_116">116.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Director of the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova, where Michael +Angelo banked his money.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_117" name="note_117" href="#noteref_117">117.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere, No. xxi. p. 31 (in the British Museum).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_118" name="note_118" href="#noteref_118">118.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">J.A. Symonds. "The Sonnets of Michael Angelo and Campanella," +No. lvi. p. 90.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_119" name="note_119" href="#noteref_119">119.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Milanesi Lettere, Contratti, &c., xiv. p. 641.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_120" name="note_120" href="#noteref_120">120.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The director of the hospital where Michael Angelo banked his +money.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_121" name="note_121" href="#noteref_121">121.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Milanese, Le Lettere, No. xcvii. p. 115.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_122" name="note_122" href="#noteref_122">122.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Michael Angelo wrote a postscript to letter No. cxvi.: "Oh, cursed +a thousand times the day and hour when I left Carrara! This is the +cause of my utter ruin. But I shall go back there soon. Nowadays it +is a sin to do one's duty."</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_123" name="note_123" href="#noteref_123">123.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Milanese. Ricordi, &c., p. 581.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_124" name="note_124" href="#noteref_124">124.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Milanese. "Les Correspondants de Michel Ange," p. 24.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_125" name="note_125" href="#noteref_125">125.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">.<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Ibid.</span></span> p. 24.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_126" name="note_126" href="#noteref_126">126.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The letters of Vari are in the Buonarroti Archives, Cod. xi., +No. 740-761; Symonds, vol. i. p. 362.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_127" name="note_127" href="#noteref_127">127.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere, No. ccclxxx., p. 423 (in the Archivio Buonarroti).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_128" name="note_128" href="#noteref_128">128.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere, No. xliv., p. 55 (in the British Museum).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_129" name="note_129" href="#noteref_129">129.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere, No. cccxc. p. 437. Milanese dates this letter August 8, +1524. Michael Angelo to Giovanni Spina; he signs it "at San +Lorenzo."</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_130" name="note_130" href="#noteref_130">130.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Several are by the hand of Michael Angelo, but some are done in +the mannered style of the architectural draughtsman of the period, and +suggest a Florentine assistant.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_131" name="note_131" href="#noteref_131">131.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Gotti, i. 158</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_132" name="note_132" href="#noteref_132">132.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lettere, Nos. cd. and cdii. pp. 450, 453.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_133" name="note_133" href="#noteref_133">133.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere, No. cccxciv. p. 442 (in the Archivio Buonarroti).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_134" name="note_134" href="#noteref_134">134.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere, No. cd. p. 450 (in the Archivio Buonarroti).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_135" name="note_135" href="#noteref_135">135.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere, No. cccxcvii. p. 446 (in the Archivio Buonarroti).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_136" name="note_136" href="#noteref_136">136.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Surnamed Dini; he fell in the sack of Rome.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_137" name="note_137" href="#noteref_137">137.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere, No. cccxcix. p. 448 (in the Archivio Buonarroti).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_138" name="note_138" href="#noteref_138">138.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The gate called San Gallo, which remained open until daylight.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_139" name="note_139" href="#noteref_139">139.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Vol. i. p. 207.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_140" name="note_140" href="#noteref_140">140.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Gotti, i. 199. San Nicolo is a little church on the way to San +Miniato; the tower forms the foreground in the view from the top of +the hill.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_141" name="note_141" href="#noteref_141">141.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">See p. 61.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_142" name="note_142" href="#noteref_142">142.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The letter is in Gaye, ii. 229.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_143" name="note_143" href="#noteref_143">143.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Any one who has spent a winter day drawing there will confirm +Paolo in this statement.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_144" name="note_144" href="#noteref_144">144.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"Correspondants," pp. 108-112.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_145" name="note_145" href="#noteref_145">145.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Vol. ii. pp. 89, 122.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_146" name="note_146" href="#noteref_146">146.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the Archivio Buonarroti, Codici xi. No. 765; Bottari, Lettere +Pittoriche, vol. iii. pp. 78-84; and Symonds, vol. ii. p. 25.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_147" name="note_147" href="#noteref_147">147.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">See p. 66.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_148" name="note_148" href="#noteref_148">148.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Gotti, ii. p. 123.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_149" name="note_149" href="#noteref_149">149.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Gotti, ii. p. 125.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_150" name="note_150" href="#noteref_150">150.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">See Gaye, iv. 289-309, and "Lettere," &c., pp. 709-712.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_151" name="note_151" href="#noteref_151">151.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lettere, No. cdxxxiii., dated July 20.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_152" name="note_152" href="#noteref_152">152.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lettere, p. 715.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_153" name="note_153" href="#noteref_153">153.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lettere, No. cdxlv. p. 505 (in the "Biblioteca Nazionale," +Florence.)</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_154" name="note_154" href="#noteref_154">154.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bottari, Lett. pitt. iii. 796.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_155" name="note_155" href="#noteref_155">155.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Heath Wilson, p. 449.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_156" name="note_156" href="#noteref_156">156.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Archivio Buonarroti, Cod. vii.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_157" name="note_157" href="#noteref_157">157.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere, No. cdlix. p. 519 (in the Archivio Buonarroti).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_158" name="note_158" href="#noteref_158">158.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"The Sonnets of Michael Angelo." By J.A. Symonds. No. lxv.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_159" name="note_159" href="#noteref_159">159.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere, No. cdlxxiv. p. 535, written in 1555 (in the Archivio +Buonarroti).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_160" name="note_160" href="#noteref_160">160.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">If the traveller has no luggage, or has sent it on before, he can +walk from the Trastevere station, past the Ponte Rotto, past the +Temple of Janus to the Forum, and see Rome for the first time so.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_161" name="note_161" href="#noteref_161">161.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere, No. cdxc., under date 1560, p. 554 (in the Archivio +Buonarroti).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_162" name="note_162" href="#noteref_162">162.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Gotti, i. 309.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_163" name="note_163" href="#noteref_163">163.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere, No. ccxxxi. (December 21st), p. 260 (in the British +Museum).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_164" name="note_164" href="#noteref_164">164.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere, No. cdlxvi. (October 1549), p. 527 (in the Archivio +Buonarroti).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_165" name="note_165" href="#noteref_165">165.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Gotti, i. 311.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_166" name="note_166" href="#noteref_166">166.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere, No. cdlxxv. p. 537 (in the Archivio Buonarroti).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_167" name="note_167" href="#noteref_167">167.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere, No. cccii., dated February 13, 1557, p. 333 (in the +Archivio Buonarroti).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_168" name="note_168" href="#noteref_168">168.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere, No. cdxciv. p. 558 (in the Archivio Buonarroti).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_169" name="note_169" href="#noteref_169">169.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere, No. cccxiv., dated July 15, 1559, p. 345 (in the Archivio +Buonarroti).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_170" name="note_170" href="#noteref_170">170.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere, Nos, cdlxxxv., cdlxxxvi. pp. 548, 550.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_171" name="note_171" href="#noteref_171">171.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Gotti. i. 351.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_172" name="note_172" href="#noteref_172">172.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Florence.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_173" name="note_173" href="#noteref_173">173.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Reproduced in Yriarte's Florence, p. 280, English edition.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_174" name="note_174" href="#noteref_174">174.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">See Frontispiece.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_175" name="note_175" href="#noteref_175">175.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">May we not hope that Michael Angelo's good friend, the Frate +Sebastiano del Piombo, painted a portrait of him during their long +friendship, and that it will come to light one of these days?</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_176" name="note_176" href="#noteref_176">176.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere, cxci.-cxciii. pp. 217, 219, are on this subject (in the +British Museum).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_177" name="note_177" href="#noteref_177">177.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A hospital in Florence for the benefit of the Poveri Vergognosi, +poor folk who have come down in the world.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_178" name="note_178" href="#noteref_178">178.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere, No. cclxix. p.299 (in the British Museum).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_179" name="note_179" href="#noteref_179">179.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere, No. cdlxxv p. 539.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_180" name="note_180" href="#noteref_180">180.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Cellini.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_181" name="note_181" href="#noteref_181">181.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Le Lettere, No. cdlxxix. Dec. 28, 1556, p. 541.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_182" name="note_182" href="#noteref_182">182.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">"Carte-Michelesché Inedite," p. 41.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_183" name="note_183" href="#noteref_183">183.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Gotti, i. 354.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_184" name="note_184" href="#noteref_184">184.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A little after 8 <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">p.m.</span></span></p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_185" name="note_185" href="#noteref_185">185.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Four o'clock in the afternoon.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_186" name="note_186" href="#noteref_186">186.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Gotti, i. p. 354.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_187" name="note_187" href="#noteref_187">187.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Clement VII. used to say, "When Buonarroti comes to see me I +always take a seat and bid him be seated at once, feeling sure that he +will do so without leave or licence otherwise."—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Translator</span></span>.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_188" name="note_188" href="#noteref_188">188.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Albert Dürer.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_189" name="note_189" href="#noteref_189">189.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Parmigiano.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_190" name="note_190" href="#noteref_190">190.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Assisi (?).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_191" name="note_191" href="#noteref_191">191.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Farnesina.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_192" name="note_192" href="#noteref_192">192.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Now in the Vatican Gallery.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_193" name="note_193" href="#noteref_193">193.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The church of Santa Maria della Pace.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_194" name="note_194" href="#noteref_194">194.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sebastiano del Piombo; the picture was the Raising of Lazarus, +No. 1 in the National Gallery.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_195" name="note_195" href="#noteref_195">195.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Chiaroscuro, monochrome.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_196" name="note_196" href="#noteref_196">196.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Baldassare Peruzzi.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_197" name="note_197" href="#noteref_197">197.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bandinelli(?).</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_198" name="note_198" href="#noteref_198">198.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Baldassare Peruzzi.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_199" name="note_199" href="#noteref_199">199.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Piazza Navona?</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_200" name="note_200" href="#noteref_200">200.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In 1538.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_201" name="note_201" href="#noteref_201">201.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Ottavio Farnese.</p></dd><dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_202" name="note_202" href="#noteref_202">202.</a></dt><dd class="tei tei-notetext"><p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Margarite of Austria, natural daughter of Charles V.</p></dd></dl> +</div> + +<div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 5.00em; 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