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landfill relationship to the medical family didn't end with Lorenzo. He goes from a team living at Palazzo, to a man with a marriage he hit on its head. So we ve got to figure out how this happened and how in an impoverished. A boy from a rocky outpost become one of the greatest artists of history and its crew. Hold to understand Michelangelo's importance and his own life time before we can appreciate in historically story because it explains a lot Is this moody guilty kind of guy? He loved Florence that central about his character, but he so incredibly famous, while he's alive that his career is really well documented. He was the first western artists to have a bio publish while he was still alive and he actually has to rival buyers. There's the sorry is alive and then there's also. I guess what you consider more about an authorized by by his assistant and we are

have a lot of stuff, his letters and sketches and poetry, and consequently, a man of this calibre infinity. His so famous has a huge effect on his contemporaries. Even his senior is like nodded. Eventually. Leonardo left Florence from MILAN came back twenty years later and found the art world a completely different place, and we have a great quote from hearts story of italian Renaissance art, which we pulled from a lot for this path cast and he says, nickel, Angelo that one could accept him or a bell against him, but one could not ignore him. So with that quote, we will take you, nickel, Angela's early life. He was born people, Angela, a load of eco, one or Rotti Smolny. On March Sixth, fourteen, seventy five and pray say a Florentine outpost, and rather Baron region,

father with a lot of eager disseminate one or two, and he was of a noble family where they had been noble for many generations that they have lost, that there are also very poor, and his father was Sir as the governor of the region and they returned to Florence. Only about a month after Michelangelo was born when his fathers too came up and when important, From this time, though, she had a wet nurse from a village of stone cutters and he liked to play at this connection alive the fact that he had his lover, sculpture and stone cutting amiss instilled from from his infancy, and his father and uncle were against him becoming an artist because of that noble lineage. They thought he should be above physical labour, but if I give up and when he was thirteen, which was a bit old to start TIM and Domenico Hoagland Studio for a term of three years and he's a paid apprentice, which was a big deal.

And he leaves after a year because he is just so good when he's in there. By Lorenzo the magnificent to his home, We can work in the medical gardens and the art school that tell there and he does receive some structure when he's living with Lorenzo but most of the benefit comes from just being around all of be amazed, art works. That Lorenzo owns the Domenici statuary. They have all this ancient roman sculpture, ancient lions and cameos, and a fair amount of interesting, modern renaissance stuff is well, he also benefit from living with America and seeing what life is like for this powerful political, and when he dines with Lorenzo and with mandatory boys and during spare time he goes around the city. Copying works of Georgia and thought you factually in the Berne Catchy Chapel that he criticised the drawing of a sculptor and gets a broken for his trouble, something that he's so

conscious about for his whole life in his first extent, work from his ten years is a marble relief call the Madonna of the stairs, which is rather crude in drapery, but great as far as the muscle us, oh yeah, he did with that. He also did the battle of lapis and centres and Lorenzo dies in fourteen. Ninety two cynical Angelo is back with his dad in a modest house near Santa Croce and during this time in his life is when he probably does a crucifixion for a marriage. He sun and also starts dissecting corpses. A, which is something hell do for the rest of his life, to make his human figure realistic kind of strange to think of our famous renaissance artists having these then she did. Title of IRAN has already come here, but in fourteen any, for he makes a brief visit on earth and then to belong here, and he probably also shares the varroa preach during

time who we have already passed it on and as an old man. He still read some honourable as work and remembers his voice of easily has a big pressure on an early on, but let's go back. To Florence, which at the time was still these centre of art, but are paying, as well as the east, to at this time. So a lot of artists were moving on from Florence and going other places fourteen ninety six Mikel went to Rome. He was twenty one and Pope example, the sixth Lucretia borders. Father was in charge and theirs Firstly, a lot of amazing stuff in Rome for the young people, let us study, amazing, antiquities but hidden lot of private commissions during this time too, like back ass for rich Roman, which is it interesting statue, you can tell Bacchus as then definitely indulging in his drink of joy and eat. The document on the bridge.

Donna just nice little nice little works that The status early courier medicine Major Commission came in in one thousand four hundred and ninety eight when he was twenty three and it was a Pieta which was an uncommon subject in ITALY at the time. So subject is Virgin Mary Holding cry. In her lap right after he's been taken off the off the cross and it kind of ECHO's Madonna and child scenes except there's all this time. The involved in it and glandular, is talkative. Defines the the sea ultimately huge avoids huge, because you think you have to have a full grown. Christ. Obviously, the Madonna his holding it, has to be enormous, meekly

dispute has also note, because it is only signed, sculpture, bizarre writes that some lombards came to see it at Saint Peter than they thought it must be made by one of their own countrymen, and I guess, Michelangelo got word of death, and so he snuck into faint Peters at night and an chiseled in his signature. But let think Peters today to see the piazza, unfortunately its behind bulletproof glass, because in eighteen seventy seven during geologists had to go and attack I'm not laughing in attacking the statute. I am laughing, but the attack was by a deranged geologists. Ok during time Michelangelo's also working on a public project. Perhaps you ve heard of it, it's the David statue and it was to be made A block of marble that was from the fourteen sixties and had already been partially blocked by Augustine. Duco had been working on a design probably done by Donna Tallow and it wasn't. Did you go on the cathedral Florence to match and go with Donna, Telos Joshua, but because

It's so awesome. People don't want to put it up. So high. The republic wants it in front of the Palazzo day Priore, which saw the plaza de facto as a symbol of the Republic did she remember- have been an exile sense shortly after Lorenzo the magnificence death, we talked about that a little bit in our previous podcast and the night a statue is installed Pro Meditate youth headed with rocks. So here the drains geologists, the prom energy youth. Are these people hating on The land allow citizens It's the republic again and we don't have She power. We have a guy, soda who's, the gonfalonier for life, and that's basically, protector of the republic, the standard bearer, and he doesn't like. How nude David is so he can make a girdle, essentially of bronze and copper leaves two to go around David, metal under other underpants, exactly chastity about four days and weeks,

pretty lame. If you think about it. Some side notes on the David statue during the third expulsion of the medical from Florence and fifteen twenty seven, a benches thrown from the window of the Plaza De Primary and it shatters Davis left arm in hand and a teenage. The sorry in another teenager and saving the pieces very attachment and normal of the statues also soft and suffered a lot from being in the rain. So in the nineteenth century it was moved to the skylight rotunda the academic year after David Excess Michelangelo has lots and lots of big projects healed. Too ambitious work. He liked to doing that big big things, but he didn't like working with assistance, so he didn't get a lot done. He was very difficult to work with and, for example, Is this huge fresco for the solid ground Serio that he was supposed to do or twelve marble

Brussels for the Florence Cathedral and hands up only doing Saint Matthew, but he gets a customer in Rome that he can't refuse Pope Julius seconds. So in fifteen o. Peculiar says basically come to Rome, make me a tomb, but forty statues, It's a huge commission Michelangelo's is that a year bringing marvel from Kara before the Pope cause of the problem she realizes its can be too expensive and Michelangelo, always suspicious of of other artists. Even just workers in his own family, things that were Monti whose also working at Saint Peters might have hand in the Pope's decision to cut off funding, and he is so so angry. His famous verse bits of rage, he storms back to Florence and fifteen ethics, and this point check. The tomb commission turns out to be a real nightmare for Michelangelo. His whole life keep is very much invested in the project, but it goes through multi

Diane changes. Lots of halted, work, stop payment, it's it's all hovering over emphasis, for nearly is entirely, but he considered himself a sculptor, not a painter like we often think of him. So that's why this was so important to him and we also have the cross the little facts that we couldn't figure out. Where else to puts we're just gonna, throw it out there right now we mention he was a little bit strange and if you want a fashion tat from Mikel Angelo, he wore Smith, from cured dogs scan for months at a time and when it time to remove them his skin peeled off. So we have, raging Dogskin booted Angela Michelangelo, but the Pope isn't stand, Michelangelo's fits of rage and he's not gonna. Let him cried out in Florence, though, he has the floor, authorities. Return is Rome, but this time he hasn't their project for him and it's a bronze colossal of the Pope. The things like a very eager Popa, this giant Timmins

bronze colossal. Glandular does this, but we have no drawing but no records of it stalled in the newly conquered bologna and three years later, Anti Paypal forces push it off it Aristotle, melted and cast it in can which they name with, which is the feminine version of the Pope's name, and it's it's meant be the cannon firing at that when he retreats from town in Tina. Oh H had just gotten back to Florence once again, when the Pope once again says come from Rome. There's this thing I want you to do so. Sistine Chapel and still apple is a special place for the Pope's. It's the chief consecrated space in the Vatican and its used for people conclaves. If you want to think back to and Pope John Paul second died and had to pick a new pope but

Firstly decorated at the time to its it's been around for a while, and it's got the life of Moses, the life of Christ, Historic Pope's, everything is done exit. To the ceiling and further postage to make large how about? We include the twelve apostles on the ceiling each with their own panel. Glandular is not a fan of this idea. He thinks it's way to straightforward itself could be interesting enough and in dad we end up with old testament profits and symbols, romantically, plus all these things from Genesis, thicker backward in time. When you enter the room, it starts with Noah, it progresses to God, separation of light and darkness and The subjects probably would have been a little geologically complex from glandular, so it's unlikely that he rejected the apostle idea and presented this plan. Instead, he We couldn't even read Latin. So likely that Michelangelo had a theological, Adviser of sorts in Marco Pierre.

Dela there and he's the Pope's cousin, and holy, helped him out with the planning and choosing which subjects would be represented. Fifteen o eight Michelangelo set to work on his preliminary sketches before he makes cartoons and because I dont know a lot about fresco making Ferris going to explain that parallel them will really simply cartoons, you can't free hand on Fresco, especially when it's these huge scenes that organ on top of a ceiling that you may, tunes, which are basically life size, Mark ups, for what you're, ultimately gonna depicted Fresco. You lay the cartoons up against wet and tonic. Go and edges with a style which is the law metal instrument little pinprick, sometimes in the plaster and then, when you actually apply the color to the to the fresco you have to

pretty small stages that you have the wet plaster on a layer on the color. It's not like I'm an oil, painting or something where your gradually putting more and more layers of color on top of each other. We have to work quickly, Michelangelo, isn't Fact at this whole stylus and cartoon bit at first and the first work has to be redone because it moulds but goes along. He gets a lot more confident and works much faster and eventually is able to eliminate some others. Perhaps stops like the complete drawings and stateless pricks and Currently, the figures become a lot more expensive in the whole thing. Remarkably, only takes about four years less than four years, actually probably income. An interruption of about a year when the funds were caught and to do a little miss I I think a lot of people, imagine Michelangelo reclined as he's as easy.

Pending and valleys frescoes. That's not the case. You designs special scaffolding, which has ended by Jean, and this allows them to paint standing up. So he is able to work Brown, get as our supplies to. Really hurt your neck willing. It doesn't hurt his neck. He actually writes about about it and include the little. Although scatter looks very when atheling only came down occasionally for him to to review his work and look up and see how it was looking. The first time was in fifteen ten and from then on the figures get bigger. One assumes he got down looked up and realized when things are that small and detailed, you can't see them around here, you can see everything painted there so Firstly, the most impressive scene, or the most famous scene, is the creation of Adam. It has been spoofed

a million ways. Everything from eighteen to George Michael muffled Square were quite a spectrum there, but it's it's. What we ve been most impressed with I'd, say the restoration of the Sistine Chapel ceiling took place from nineteen eighty to ninety ninety nine and it removed centuries of lamp candle and incense smoke. A coat of more gloomy, even greek wine that have been added to brighten the colors and for the longest time people had thought. Maybe me glandular just worked in very in a very muted palette. You know he was a dark guy, a recovery of guy, but it turns out once all about was removed. He worked in vivid, brilliant, beautiful colored, a super colors, if you, if you ve ever seen, Sistine chapel are thin real, true life, photographs of it just bright, bright, colors,

sherbert colors on the leaden fifteen, thirteen we're back to that old tomb for Julius Michelangelo's, the favourite and nightmare project, but this time there's a new design. The only finishes three figures, Moses and a couple of slaves, and he ends up keeping these for himself, because the design and scale of the project changes once again and he keeps them he's old before giving them to a family that helped him during an illness but Joe dies and fifteen thirteen and sounds like the perfect time to make a tomb. But it's not the funding dries up and some other chain this happened to Julius is death that really affect Michelangelo, and Florence is well, though, it's time for us to catch up with Ameriky, we haven't forgotten them, met achieve were expelled and fourteen ninety four, as we said, but they came back and after ousting Soderini the city

is being ruled again in the old fashioned behind the scenes type of marriage. She way that Lawrence, the magnificent had pioneered, but this time it is by his son. Giuliano Older brother is the powerful cardinal Giovanni, but when Julius the second dies, Cardinal Giovanni becomes Pope LEO the tenth silly the turf and glandular have known each other, since they were boys and Michelangelo was living in the medical palace. LEO obviously doesn't want Michelangelo working on a Pope Julius Project He doesn't even were want him working on a papacy project, he's almost more of a mandatory before he's a pope, though he brings, he brings He glandular back to Florence to work on marriage. He approved projects things are a little bit sketchy and Florence at the time now, LEO's replaced his brother with his nephew. Lorenzo was ruler of Florence and events. It is not Great he's, mostly a puppet ruler, he's very repressive and he dies early, but not before Father

as one legitimate child Catherine Domenici, who we will talk about at some future podcast we'll get another third Fisher solely at that puts his cousin cardinal Julio domenici in charge and you'll, probably remember him from our party conspiracy. Podcast he's Giuliano Domenici sign who's. The guy has actually killed at the Duomo, his illegitimate fun, so Julia and Michelangelo work really closely together and they have a pretty respectful. Take relationship in fifteen thick, Michelangelo Commission to design a facade for them. She's, churches of similar Enzo and he actually built a road to the mountains just to get marble this facade and this design has, but the contract is an old and fifteen twenty and angry Michelangelo. I mean he's, got good reason to be angry about this stuff that he's very upset he answered.

Instead, working on a smaller scale project for similar Enzo, which is the marriage, he chapel designing, tombs for some of the young men, itchy airs who have died early and the to have these beautiful figures of night and day and dawn and dusk, and there actually often mistaken for the tombs of more illustrious family members. There they're pretty much nobody than the grand scheme of of marriage. Family members that they have these lovely elaborate tunes we have a bit of a marriage. She break and interlude in power when LEO the tenth died and fifteen twenty one and a Dutch Pope took over Adrian the sex. Very into reforming cleaning up marriage, he masses in general and consequently he doesn't last long, he was probably poisoned and he was succeeded by card on Julio Domenici who became Clement. The seventh and climate kept his day. Job

ruling Florence, as well as taking over the paper, see I just cause he's pope doesn't mean he's about to leave everything in home behind what MRS, when the people of the city realise their owned by the papers in their not happy. I have this great history of being ever black, and now they realize what their true position has so by fifteen twenty six, It has gotten himself into too much trouble with the holy roman emperor, Charles, the fifth, and this results in a violent sacking of Rome and fifteen twenty seven, which ends the high ratified this great period of of art that we, we think of Michelangelo's peak it's over. This was in the violet backing of Rome, which happens in one thousand five and twenty seven in the high renaissance is forced to flee Rome and a lot of people think you know what I mean, This is the judgment of guide on manage. Rome, Florence definite

think so and they take the opportunity to throw off the marriage she and re stage that republic. But while the city is besieged, me designed fortifications. He really understood defensive structures. Which is interesting again to see how his talents could go across so many different how women is a renaissance man too today, but you haven't, somebody can do great Fresco were and we know that gorgeous sculpture and then design fortification pretty crazy, but flights have captured. In fifteen thirty, and the new maritime government is pretty strict, Michelangelo is actually ordered to be fascinated for helping the republic for helping with his fortifications and all that The Canon of sailor ran, though- and this is how crazy as it's the church, the Canon of similar Lorenzo hides him until the Pope Ameriky Pope

issues in order to stare at life, so he can get back to work on the matter to chaff, also twisted and and tied up in the met she ruler at the time our Sondra who's, the first hereditary duke of florence- if they did that urges find the scenes running. Our public thing out for us over he's a pretty cruel. I still inclement dies and Michelangelo doesnt have that protection of the medical Pope anymore. He gets out of Florence he's worried for his life, so he leaves As for Rome, for the last time and fifteen thirty, four hoping to return, some day, but this is the point in his life for he starts. Completing his own mortality. We have lots of letters to his family from this time. He's really concerned about his nephew, marrying and carrying on the family name and Sakharov suggests it because some of his later letters and his life that he was homosexual because he wrote-

a lot about his strong attachment to young man, but there's another theory saying another: aren't any similar indications from when he was younger. So maybe this is when he was looking for a surrogate son He also writes a of poetry, along with his letters and justice. Oh again, what sort of a strange guy he has restricts, taking two wearing Harris shirts under his clothes mimicking John the Baptist and his working now, I dont think of them is fading off into obscurity in Rome. He has some of his his biggest stuff here. The new posts. Part of the commission's me glandular to come back to rescue work and come back to the Sistine Chapel after a height of twenty five years, and he works on the last. Met which is interesting something it's this aim the same location, but it's such a different style it. So it's the difference of a quarter century. I guess

but he really turned to architecture lot in his later years because it was less physical, his art before that was a bit hard on the body and most notably, he was the head architect of projects at Saint Peter he design the dome of Saint Peters, which there has been emailing. Pictures of all day, but it was built after him Then it's not clear just how much of the design followed what he intended to do and how much of it was other people so meekly Low died February. Eighteen, fifteen, sixty four in Rome and an thinking about him. For somebody who is so famous during his own lifetime that Fain does a slip away. At all I mean, if anything heap, he becomes more famous when, when we see his influence and later artists.

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