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Daniele da Volerra, 1565, Florence, Italy
Voltera made this from Michelangelo's death mask
Front ..Medal by Leone Leoni 1560.
Michelangelo really like this portrait he was 85 years old.
Rear.. Medal by Leone Leoni 1560
Florentine Pieta 1547-55, Florence Cathederal
Rondanini Pieta 1555-64, Florence Cathederal
Victory,1520-1523, h. 102 inches ...(261 cm) The man knelling is Michelangelo.
St. Proculus, 1495, h. 22.75 inches...(58.5 cm)
Painted by a student who helped him paint the Sistine Chapel
Jacopino del Carto, about 1540
Full picture by Jacopino del Carto, about 1540
Daniele da Volerra, 1533, Florence, Italy
| This is a cartoon for the fresco of the Assumption in the church of SS Trinita in Rome |
From the Tomb of Michelangelo in Florence, Italy, by Battista Lorenzi
Skin of Michelangelo, Last Judgement, Rome, Italy
Enea Vico, 1545, 2nd version
Statue of Michelangelo outside the Uffizi, Florence.
Bust of Michelangelo on the roof of St Peter's Basilica, Rome
| Michelangelo was a small man, perhaps not more than 5' 2" in height and weighing not much more than a muscular 100 pounds. In 1550 Blaise de Vigniere, visiting from France, wrote, "I saw Michelangelo at work. He had passed his 60th year and although he was not very strong, yet in a quarter of an hour he caused more splinters to fall from a very hard block of marble than three young masons in three or four times as long. No one can believe it who has not seen it with his own eyes. With one blow he brought down fragments three or four fingers in breadth, so exactly at the point that if a little more marble had fallen, it would have risked spoiling the whole piece." |
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Vasari on what Michelangelo Looked like:
About this time the Cavaliere Leoni made a portrait of Michelangelo, a very close resemblance, in a medal. This pleased Michelangelo greatly, and he presented Leoni with a model in wax of Hercules killing Antaeus. We have no other portrait of Michelangelo except two in painting, one by Bugiardino and the other by Jacopo del Conte, and a high relief in bronze by Daniello Ricciarelli. |
Works by Michelangelo