Lorenzo de' Medici Essays

Some men are just “normal”, not looking for power and wanting to live a normal life. That wasn’t Lorenzo de’ Medici, this was not a man that wanted little from the world, this was the real Don Corleone. He didn’t need to ask, he could just take. He was someone to be feared and even his enemies would not move against him and hope to live and those that did move against them would fail to eliminate him, neither the Pazzi’s or Ferdinand I had the ability to defeat him. He while he was a sort of Stateman

lot of learning and art going on. In all truth there was a huge rapid decline of learning and art then from when the Romans and Greeks ruled. Lorenzo De Medici was an italian statesman during the Renaissance. Lorenzo De’ Medici was a man with many different talents who accomplished many great things during his lifetime One major accomplishment De’ Medici had was stabilizing the papal states after his father died and his brother was murdered by an assassin. When the pope learned that several fellow

Rome in 1498, the cardinal Jean Bilhères de Lagraulas, a representative of the French King Charles VIII to the pope, commissioned "Pieta," a sculpture of Mary holding the dead Jesus across her lap[https://www.biography.com/]. Despite being in the employ of the Medici Pope Clement VII, Michelangelo backed the republican cause and was appointed director of the city’s fortifications. In 1527, the citizens of Michelangelo’s native Florence expelled the ruling Medici family and installed a republican government

described as abstemious. He was very introverted and rough around the edges, often withdrawing himself from company in order to be alone (paraphrase of “Michelangelo Buonarroti Biography”). Conflicts took place within the Medici family, resulting in the death of his teacher, Lorenzo. Michelangelo fled to Bologna, after being expelled from Florence, and stayed at his father’s house. There he created a crucifix to

Domenico Ghirlandaio. After just one year of working with him because he believed he had nothing more to learn from him. After this he was taken under the wing of Lorenzo De Medici. Michelangelo’s new connection the De Medici family help him learn new skills, The skills that will help him build up his fame later on. Before the fall of De Medici Michelangelo had left to explore more opportunities. In his artwork he wanted “to let the representations

secularism, and classicism. The De’ Medici family was a wealthy family who gained control and power over much of Florence by using their individual skill, political power, and their intellectual intelligence. The De’ Medici family ruled as an uncrowned monarchy, they had considerable power over the people of Florence but were never crowned as kings. Due to the De’ Medici family, culture flourished, and Florence became the cultural center of Europe. Lorenzo De’ Medici, or Lorenzo the Magnificent, best represents

the pleasure of being apprenticed to the well-known painter Domenico Ghirlandaio which l year later triggered leading citizen and art patron of Florence, Lorenzo de’ Medici to be drawn to the amazing talent of Michelangelo. He lived with the Medici family while he attended Lorenzo’s school where he got his education. With the tragic death of Lorenzo in 1492, Michelangelo decided to return to live with his father. Michelangelo was sent to study the topic of grammar with humanist Francesco da Urbino but

Bride, describes the connections between the painting and these ideologies using a feminist approach. She acknowledges Neoplatonism and the Medici Circle, and uses it to describe the roles a woman was expected to play in both society and marriage. It has been theorized that the painting is supposed to represent the marriage between Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de’ Medici and Semiramide d’Appiani, but Zirpolo’s essay focuses specifically on the brides moral lessons. Zirpolo argues that the function of Primavera

reversal of Michelangelo’s circumstances. Michelangelo left the security of the Medici court and returned to his father’s house. Michelangelo’s interest showed nothing than copying paintings from churches and also seek the company of the painters. Michelangelo’s father sent him to study grammar with the humanist Francesco da Urbino In Florence as a young boy. In 1489 Ghirlando was asked by the ruler of Florence (Lorenzo de Medici) to send him his best students for continued

apprentice to the city’s most well known painter, Domenico Ghirlandaio. A year later Michelangelo’s gift drew the attention Lorenzo de’ Medici, the most powerful patron of the Renaissance. One could argue that this is the true start of Michelangelo’s career as a creator. Lorenzo de’ Medici offered Michelangelo the opportunity to live in a room of his palatial home. Medici surrounded himself with many influential and creative people and because of this Michelangelo was able to study with the a

Moses with horns on his head. Michelangelo felt it was his most lifelike creation and legend says that when finished, he struck the statues knee and commanded it to speak (Anirudh). In 1559 the Laurentian Library was completed. Commissioned by the Medici pope, Michelangelo designed the interior and vestibule. It is considered one of his most important achievements and his innovations and use of space are revolutionary. He pioneered the Mannerist style in architecture

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” The author of this quote, Michelangelo, explains how many can achieve a goal almost effortlessly, but few actually try to achieve something that requires toilsome work. Such work that is not always successful, but when it is, the result is superior compared to an insufficient effort. The extraordinary man who wrote this quote achieved greatness by striving for excellence. Michelangelo

Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince, written for Lorenzo de’ Medici, demonstrates several different aspects of governance with various historical examples in order to portray the essential attributes of a prince. The Prince depicts different forms of governmental structures by describing the many types of principalities that can be present within a state. Throughout the book, Machiavelli specifically discusses many thematic subjects such as power, virtue, ethics, and human nature in order to depict

History of the Statue/Narrative Story of the Content: Giambologna was commissioned to create a piece for the Loggia, or open-air gallery, by the Grand Duke Francesco de’ Medici in 1574. Giambologna's third major work, it is perceived to be one of the greatest sculptures ever. It represented the climax of his career as a figure sculptor, uniting three figures into a single spiral composition. The actual theme of the finished statue was not determined until shortly before its installation in the Loggia

Michelangelo Do you know what great artist do to their work to make it exquisite? Many people think it is how they paint with brushes, strokes, different colors, values, and depth but, I beg to differ. Yes, these are important qualities people should have in their paintings. Michelangelo paintings were very much different. Michelangelo Merisi was his formal name, he was born in Italy around 1571, but goes by Caravaggio (Web. Bio.). He is considered one of the fathers of modern paintings (Web. Bio

Journal Entry: Bruni “Excerpt from a Treatise” Leonardo Bruni was a Florentine humanist, and contributed to Florence flourishing during the Renaissance. So many of the great Italian Renaissance figures where from Florence, including Petrarch, Bruni, and Machiavelli. Also many of the famous Renaissance artists were from Florence including, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Botticelli. This shows how much of an epicenter Florence was for the Renaissance. I though it was interesting how the fall of the Florentine

(gwu.edu). The next sculpture that Michelangelo was commissioned to work on was the Pieta sculpture which was made for French cardinal, Jean Villiers de Fezencac. The cardinal wanted a sculpture of the Virgin Mary and Jesus. Michelangelo signed a contract for the sculpture to be completed in one year. Not only did he finish the sculpture, he did an outstanding job. The Pieta consists of an intimate

Did you know that Michelangelo is considered the “Father and Master of All the Arts”? Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel all alone and this gave him great anguish, which was helped by the woman he loved, Vittoria Colonna. Michelangelo supposedly also had a homosexual relationship, but that does not affect the fact that he was a brilliant, amazing artist from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries who created many extravagant works of art, such as the Sistine Chapel, “David”, and “Pieta” Michelangelo’s

permission from his catholic church to study the cadavers into anatomy, but being around the corpses had a reverse affect on his health. At the age of sixteen he created two sculptures, one is “Battle of the centaurs” two “Madonna seated on step”. When Lorenzo the magnificent died, it forced Michelangelo to flee to Bolanga, where he continued to study his work. In 1495 he returned to Florence as a sculptor. When he retired as a sculptor in 1498 he moved away to Rome to continue his fledgling career. Not

botticelli’s only painting that was signed and dated, was titled the Mystic Nativity. Through the religious iconography in the painting, a better understanding of the political turmoil at this time is realized. Originally a court painter for the Medici family, Botticelli came to be an ardent follower of the friar and preacher savonarola. Savonarola (something about being so hardcore and a dictator and extremist ) Many great pieces of art were destroyed in this period unless they were