![]() At this time Michelangelo sculpted the reliefs Madonna of the Steps (1490–1492) and Battle of the Centaurs (1491–1492). Michelangelo studied sculpture under Bertoldo di Giovanni. Consequently, both Michelangelo's outlook and his art were subject to the influence of many of the most prominent philosophers and writers of the day including Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola, and Angelo Poliziano. He absorbed Renaissance Neoplatonism through his direct contact with some of the great Renaissance humanist philosophers of the Medici Court. įrom 1490 to 1492, Michelangelo attended the Humanist academy which the Medici had founded. It was then that Michelangelo first began writing down his deepest thoughts in poetry, which he continued to do for the rest of his life. Michelangelo was thrown into the midst of the Medici circle, where he was involved with poetry, science, philosophy, and art. Lorenzo even offered Michelangelo's father Lodovico a respectable position in the palace. Lorenzo had taken notice of Michelangelo's unusual talent and, wishing to encourage him, proposed for Michelangelo to move into the palace and live there as his son to be educated along with the Medici children. When in 1489 Lorenzo de' Medici ("Lorenzo il Magnifico ), de facto ruler of Florence, asked Ghirlandaio for his two best pupils, Ghirlandaio sent Michelangelo and Francesco Granacci. When Michelangelo was only fourteen, his father persuaded Ghirlandaio to pay his apprentice as an artist, which was highly unusual at the time. At thirteen, Michelangelo was apprenticed to the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. The young artist, however, showed no interest in his schooling, preferring to copy paintings from churches and seek the company of painters. Michelangelo's father sent him to study grammar with the Renaissance humanist Francesco da Urbino in Florence as a young boy. Following his initial work for Lorenzo de' Medici, Michelangelo's interactions with the family continued for decades including the Medici papacies of Pope Leo X and Pope Clement VII.ĭespite pauses and turbulence in the relationship between Michelangelo and his Medici patrons, it was commissions from the Medici Popes that produced some of Michelangelo's finest work, including the completion of the tomb of Pope Julius II with its monumental sculpture of Moses, and The Last Judgement, a complex fresco covering the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel (the earlier Sistine Chapel ceiling was not a Medici commission).īeginnings with the Medici Lorenzo de Medici by Michelangelo in Medici Chapel, Florence ![]() Michelangelo's first contact with the Medici family began early as a talented teenage apprentice of the Florentine painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. They amassed a sizable fortune some of which was used for patronage of the arts. The Medici rose to prominence as Florence's preeminent bankers. Michelangelo (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564) had a complicated relationship with the Medici family, who were for most of his lifetime the effective rulers of his home city of Florence. Relationship between Michelangelo and the House of Medici Michelangelo's David, 1501-1504
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