Great Masters Michelangelo Images to Know - Mikey

Madonna of the Stairs, 1489-92, Marble, Casa Buonarroti, Florence

-Rilievo Schiacciato

-Monumental female figure

-Style is remisicent of Classcial sarcophagi

-earliest extant work

-Quaniccento style

-Unusal positions

-Unfinished (?)

-Pushed to edge of picture plane

-Sacred, quiet, foreboding, introspective

Battle of the Lapiths and the Centaurs, 1490-92, marble, Casa Buonarroti, Florence

-Virtue vs Vice, reason vs base desire

-Popular theme

-Also called Battle of Hercules

-Unfinished (?)

Bacchus, 1496-97, marble, Bargello, Florence

-First major comission

-Pawning his stuff as Classical antiques (penis is already broken off)

-Comissioned by cardinal Riario, rejected, Gali takes it

-First life sized free standing nude sculpture

-Empty skin of a panther

-Cup based off of Old Etruscan cup

-Androdynous

-High burnished

-Vacant Stare

Pieta, 1498-99, Marble, Saint Peter's, Vatican, Rome

-Comissoined by French Cardinal

-Gets marble from Carrara quarries

-Subject is popular more in Northern art more than italy

-Struggle with akward posing, hidden by drapery

-She does not touch his body (not touching the concentrated host)

-Only signed work

-First monumental religious subject

-Age of Virgin was controversial at the time

-Finely polished

Doni Tondo, c.1503, tempera and oil on tondo panel, Uffizi, Florence

-Only preserved completed painted panel by Michelangelo

-Commissioned by Maddalena Strozzi and Agnolo Doni, likely for their wedding

-5 portrait heads, Christ, 2 profits, 2 Civils

-Embeded symbols of Doni and Strozzi

-Influenced by Leo and Raph

-Unusually active Joseph

-Back figures are either wingless angels or classical nudes

-John the Baptist serving as an intermediary between biblical/pagan past

-Deco da parto

-Virtu

-Figura Seroentinata

Taddei Tondo, 1503, marble, London, Royal Academy of Arts

-Comissioner is Tadeo Taddei

-Only Michelangelo sculpture in Great Britain

-Unfinished (gets pulled to work on David)

-Mature baby pose

-John the Baptist on the left

-Likely saw Da Vinci's Yarn Winder

Pitti Tondo, 1504, marble, Bargello, Florence

-Comissioned by Luca Pitti

-Unifinished (gets pulled to work on David)

-Similar to Madonna of the Stairs

David, 1501-1504, Marble, Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence

-Comissioned by Opra Council

-Intended for exterior facade buttress of the cathedral

-Marble pre-made/cut (explains weird density)

-1504 meeting at Palazzo Sinerita to decide where it should go

-Anti-Medici symbol

-Nicknamed El Gigante (The Giant)

-First overlife size/monumental nude sculpture since antiquity

-Before encountering Goliath (set new precident)

-Terribilita

-Chiastic

-Humanist/neoplatonic philosophy about beauty

Bruges Madonna, 1506, Notre Dame, Bruges, Belgium

Most likely comissioned by Cardinal Piccolomini/Pope Pious III

-Intended for family alter in Sienna, but was never sent

-Bought by or comissioned by the Mouscron family

-Yan and Alexander Mouscron

-Only sculpture by Michelangelo that leaves Italy during his lifetime

-Monumental and Corporeal, with dramatic controposto

-Burnished finish

Sistine Chapel ceiling, 1508-1512, Fresco, Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome

Sonnet with self-portrait, c. 1510, Pen and ink, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Florence

Study for the tomb of Julius II, Pen, wash and chalk, Met, NY

Moses, c. 1511-1516 and 1542-45, Marble, S. Pietro in VIncoli, Rome

Captives (slaves), c.1513-1516, Marble, Lourvre, Paris

Medici Chapel, Sagrestia Nuova (New Sacristy) 1519-1532, San Lorenzo, Florence

Tomb of Giuliano de'Medici; with Night/Day, Medici Chapel, San Lorenzo, Florence

Tomb of Lorenzo de' Medici with Dawn/Dusk, Medici Chapel, San Lorenzo, Florence

Medici Madonna, 1521-1534, medici Chapel, San Lorenzo, Florence

Last Judgement, 1536-1541, Fresco, Altar Wall, Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome

Campidoglio, Rome 1538-1564 / Dome of St. Peter's 1546-1564, Rome

Pieta (Deposition), 1547 - 1555, marble, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence

Pieta, (Rondanini) 1554-1564, marble, Castello Sforzesco, Milan

What was Michelangelo's earliest extant work?

Madonna of the Stairs

Rilievo Schiacciato

Flattened Relief

Who was Michelangelo's master?

No official master, he says that it was "Donatello and the Antique"

What were his 2 major life events?

Influence of Bassachio (fight that broke his nose?) and Lorenzo the Magnificent dying in 1492, cutting him off from luxury

When does Michelangelo recieve his first major commission?

21 years old/ 1496-97

Who was the Pope at this time?

Alexander the VI (Borgia Pope)

Who drew Michelangelo's Bacchus with it's arm broken off?

Martin Van Heemskerck in 1532, he drew it in Gali's garden with other Classical antiques

What is the symbol for the Strozzi family?

Crescent moons

What is the symbol for the Doni family?

Rampant lions

Terribilita

Fierce Gaze

Chiastic

Counter balance