Michelangelo Flashcards
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Campidoglio
Date: 1538
Architect: Michelangelo
Location: Capitoline Hill, Rome
- Called the “belly of the world” the center of rome
- Caused reorientation of Capitoline Hill
- Lateral symmetry – directionality. Central axis on papal way. Trapezoidal design
- Rebuilt palazzo senatorio (1582-1605) nuovo and staircase (cordata, grand ramp)
- Statue of Marcus Aurelius at center of oval piazza
- Originally citadel of earliest romans
- Faces (oriented) Papal rome, St. Peters. Shows new development of the city instead of past.
- Site of municipal authority.
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San Pietro in Vincoli (St. Peter in Chains)
Date: 432-40/1471-1503
Architect: Restoration lead by Cardinal della Rovere
Front Portico: Baccio Pontelli (1475)
Cloister: Giuliano da Sangallo (1493-1503)
Location: Rome
- Michelangelo’s “Moses” statue inside (1513-13) Tomb to Pope Julius II
- Nave and 2 side aisles with 3 apses divided by Doric columns
- Ceiling fresco – the Miracle of Chains – By Parodi, coffered ceiling.
- Houses the relic of Chains that bound St. Peter
- Horns on Moses Mistranslation of “rays of light”
- Monument with Moses
- Originally Statue to be higher up and in a free standing monument. Altered due to simplification (ended up as wall monument)
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Santa Maria Maggiore (and Sforza Chapel)
Date: 432-40 (Pope Pius 3)/1564 (michelangelo)
Architect: Michelangelo, Completed by Giacomo della Porta (Sforza Chapel)
Location: Rome
- Cappella Sforza: 1564 Michelangelo, 1573 Giacomo della Porta
- Capella Sistina: 1687: Dominica Fontata, Burial tombs of Pope Pius 5 and Sixtus 5
- Completed under Pope Sixtus III (432-40)
3 aisles, two large chapels as pseudo transept (no real one)
* Semicircular apse with nave and side aisles.
Retains the core of its original structure
- Mosaics depict Mary and Jesus and the old testament too
- 16thc coffered ceiling gilded, by Guliano da Sangallo
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Porta Pia
Date: 1561-65
Architect: Michelangelo
Location: Rome
- Built under Pope Pius IV
- Gate in the Aurelian wall at the end of the Via Pia
- Michelangelo was more concerned with making a picturesque gate rather than a functional one
- Ornamental façade faces into the city (not out to greet visitors)
