MICHELANGELO.CARAVAGGIO.BERNINI
KEY DATES
EARLY RENAISSANCE (1401.02 – 1490's)
 Filippo Brunelleschi
1. Linear Perspective
2. Spedale degli Innocenti, San Lorenzo (church + Old Sacristy), Dome of Florence Cathedral
(1420-36), Santo Spirito, Cappella Pazzi (Santa Croce complex), Rotonda degli Angeli
 Masaccio
1. Holy Trinity (Santa Maria Novella), Cappella Brancacci (Santa Maria del Carmine)
- Donatello
1. David, St. Mark, St. George, Cantoria
HIGH RENAISSANCE (1490's – 1520)
 Leonardo da Vinci
 Michelangelo Buonarroti
 Raffaello Sanzio
MANNERISM (after 1520)
LATE RENAISSANCE (after 1520)
BAROQUE (17th century)
ARTISTIC LITERATURE
Giorgio Vasari, The Lives of the Artist, (first edition 1550; second edition 1568)
Ascanio Condivi, The Life of Michelangelo, 1553
MICHELANGELO (1475/1564)
Historical
Context
Artistic
Context
Michelangelo's Life
Michelangelo's oeuvre
Medici lineage –
1360/1743
1401.02
Competition
Panels
1425.27
Brancacci
Chapel
1433.34 Cosimo I 1420.36 Dome
dei Medici the
of Florence
Elder exiled
Cathedral
1469 Lorenzo the 1460's (?)
Magnificent de
Donatello's
facto ruler of
David
Florence
6 March 1475 – Michelangelo
born in Caprese
1478 Pazzi
Conspiracy:
Giuliano dei
Medici killed
1482
Leonardo da
Vinci departs
for Milano
Ghirlandaio's 1487 – M. present in the studio of
frescoes in the Domenico and Davide
Cappella
Ghirlandaio
Tornabuoni
(Santa Maria
Novella)
1488 – M. apprenticed to D. and
D. Ghirlandaio
1491 Savonarola
becomes prior of
San Marco
1492 Death of
Lorenzo the
Magnificent;
Pope Alexander
VI Borgia
1489/92 - ? Medici Garden +
household
1489-92
Madonna of the Stairs; Battle
of the Centaurs
1493 Lost Fontainebleau
Hercules. Wooden Crucifix
(Santo Spirito)
1493.94 Piero de'
Medici rules
1494 Charles
VIII invades
Italy; Piero de'
Medici flees
Florence
1494 Michelangelo flees to
Bologna
Figures for the Shrine of St.
Dominic
1495 M. back to Florence
St. John the Baptist; Sleeping
Cupid
1496 M. in Rome in the service of Commission for the Bacchus
Cardinal Riario
1497 Jacopo Galli buys Bacchus
Contract for the Vatican Pieta
1498 Savonarola
and four
followers
excommunicated
and burnt at stake
in piazza Signoria
1500 Contract for the
Piccolomini altar figures
1501 Piero
Soderini made
Florentine
Gonfaloniere for
life
1503 Giuliano
della Rovere
(Julius II) is
elected pope
1501 Contract with Opera del
Duomo for marble David
(completed 1504)
Leonardo
commissioned
to paint the
Battle of
Anghiari for
the Great
Council Hall
in Palazzo
Vecchio
1502 Contract with Pierre de
Rohan for bronze David
1503 Contract with Opera del
Duomo for 12 Apostles;
Bruges Madonna; Tondo Doni
begun
1504 Commission for the
Battle of Cascina cartoon;
Taddei and Pitti tondos
1505
Bramante
commissioned
to rebuild
St.Peter's
Rome
1505 Commission for the
Tomb of Julius II (first
contract)
Michelangelo flees Rome;
November goes to Bologna to
work on bronze Julius II
1506 First mention of the
commission for the Sistine
ceiling
1512 Spanish
pro-Medicean
troops march
towards Florence
and sack Florence
1508-1512 Frescoes for the
vault of the Sistine Chapel
1513 Death of
Julius II;
Giovanni dei
Medici elected
pope (Leo X) –
Medici reinstated
in Florence
1513 Second contract for
Julius II tomb
1516 Secures commission for
the facade of San Lorenzo with
Baccio d'Agnolo; Third
contract for Julius tomb
1517 Martin
Luther nails 95
theses to the door
of the church of
All Saints
Wittenberg
1519 Charles V
becomes King of
Spain and Holy
Roman Emperor
1519 Death of
Leonardo da
Vinci in
France
1520 Pope Leo X 1520 Death of
excommunicates Raffaello
Martin Luther
Sanzio
1521 Diet of
Worms; Martin
Luther splits with
the Catholic
Church: Death of
1518 Signs contract as sole
architect for San Lorenzo
facade; 1519 Facade project
cancelled; Commission for the
Medici Chapels and the
Laurentian Library
Leo X
1523 Giulio de'
Medici elected
Pope as Clement
VII
1524 Works for the Laurentian
Library begin
1527 Sack of
Rome; Imperial
troops enter
Rome; Florentine
Republic
1529 Siege of
Florence; Treaty
of Barcelona;
Clement VII and
Charles V
become allies
1529 Michelangelo is appointed
one of the 'Nine of the Militia'; in
charge of Florence fortification;
M. flees to Venice but then returns
to Florence
1529 Michelangelo is
appointed one of the 'Nine of
the Militia'; in charge of
Florence fortification
1530 Goes into hiding until
pardoned by Clement VII
1530 Resumes work on the
Medici projects in Florence