1B: Michelangelo at the Court of Lorenzo the Magnificent

Lorenzo de’Medici, 1449-1492, portrait bust after Verrocchio

Giuliano de’Medici, Botticelli

Bertoldo, medal commemorating the Pazzi Conspiracy, 1478

Florence, Duomo (=cathedral) Sta. Maria del Fiore, façade as in 1490 and today

The Tazza Farnese, 2nd. C. B.C.

Noah’s Ark, cameo, 13th c.

Gondi Palace, Giuliano da Sangallo, 1490

Strozzi Palace, G.da Sangallo and Giuliano da Maiano, ca. 1490

Cosimo de’Medici, 1389-1464 in a posthumous portrait by Pontormo

Renaissance Florence and today

Medici palace on the Via Larga (= Via Cavour)

Medici palace, Michelozzo, begun 1444

Palazzo Davanzati, 1330s

Palazzo Davanzati, interior court and stairs, room on piano nobile

Medici palace, bugnato rustico, channeled masonry, ashlar masonry

Medici Palace, ashlar masonry and classicizing cornice: dentils, egg and dart, consoles (mensoles)

Palazzo Vecchio (town hall), ca. 1300

Medici Palazzo Vecchio

Palazzo Medici, cortile (=courtyard)

Palazzo Medici, cortile, details of composite capital, sgraffito decoration and tondo

Medici palace, chapel

Medici Palace, chapel, Benozzo Gozzoli, Journey of the Magi and detail of Lorenzo (?), 1459

Ghirlandaio, Adoration of the Magi, 1488 Botticelli, Adoration of the Magi, 1476

Botticelli, Simonetta Vespucci wearing the sigillo di Nerone Sigillo di nerone (=Nero’s seal) carnelian

intaglio with Apollo and Marysas

Medici villas

Medici villa at Cafaggiolo in the Mugello, renovated by Michelozzo,1451

Medici villa of Castello

Botticelli, Birth of Venus, 1478The birth of beauty in the mind of man through the fertilization of matter by divinity

Botticelli, La Primavera (=spring), 1482

Medici villa at Careggi, remodeled by Michelozzo, 1430s

Careggi, living room and Verrocchio’s putto with a dolphin for cortile 1470s

Medici villa at Fiesole, Michelozzo, 1455

Villa Medici, Fiesole

Medici villa at Poggio a Caiano, Giuliano da Sangallo, 1480s

Poggio

Poggio

Poggio, frieze by Andrea Sansovino

Poggio,portico with cast coffered barrel vault and fresco by Filippino Lippi

Poggio Salone grande

Leon Battista Alberti, De re aedificatoria (=On the Art of Building), after 1450, here a 15th c. manuscript from Modena

Sta. Maria Novella, Florence, 13th-14th c. and upper part of façade after 1450, Alberti

Martin Schongauer, The Temptation of St. Anthony, 1470s

Domenico Ghirlandaio, Tornabuoni Chapel, Sta. Maria Novella, 1485-90, Birth of the Virgin

Ghirlandaio, Tornabuoni Chapel,Baptism of Christ, detail

Michelangelo

Michelangelo, copy of Giotto, The Ascension of John the Evangelist, Peruzzi Chapel, Sta. Croce, ca. 1320

Masaccio, Expulsion of Adam and Eve, Brancacci Chapel, Sta. Maria del Carmine, 1420s and Michelangelo copy

Brunelleschi, Sacrifice of Isaac, 1402 Michelangelo

Ghirlandaio Michelangelo

Michelangelo

Botticelli, Calumny of Apelles, 1495

Ghirlandaio, Adoration of the Shepherds, Sassetti Chapel, 1485

Sistine Chapel, lower walls frescoed by Ghirlandaio, Botticelli, Perugino and Cosimo Rosselli, 1482

Medici garden at San Marco, 1475

Bertoldo di Giovanni, battle relief, 1475 and tondo from Medici Palace,

Donatello assisted by Bertoldo, Deposition, San Lorenzo Pulpit, 1460

Donatello, Pazzi Madonna, 1422 Michelangelo, Madonna della Scala, ca.1490

Donatello, The Raising of Drusiana, 1430s, Old Sacristy Michelangelo, Madonna della Scala detail

Donatello, David, 1430s Donatello, Judith and Holofernes, 1455-60

Marsyas, repaired by Verrochio for Lorenzo

Michelangelo received at the Medici palace, drawing of his catafalque, detail

Bound Marsyas

Nicola Ferrucci, Florentine Artists Study Michelangelo’s works, 1615. Marsyas in foreground

Michelangelo, Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs, ca. 1490 Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus, 2nd c. A.D.

Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs

Giulio de’Medici, later Clement VII; Giovanni de’Medici, later Leo X; Alessandro Farnese, later Paul III

Lorenzo de’Medici, death mask