He persecutes Vittoria Colonna, Michaelangelo’s beloved, and her family, and tries to whitewash the “obscene” figures from the Sistine Chapel, satisfied that they will at least have breeches painted over the genitals. Thommaso is loyal and promises to carry out all Michaelangelo’s work after he dies.Ĭardinal Caraffa, who becomes Pope Paul IV, is the villainous Pope who brings the Inquisition to Rome in the 1550s and tortures so-called heretics. Michaelangelo writes many of his sonnets to Thommaso, whom he thinks of as a perfect man, the Adam of his painting. He is his painting and architecture apprentice in Rome, who makes Michaelangelo feel young again. Thommaso de’ Cavalieri becomes an important soul companion for the older Michaelangelo. Marquis of Carrara helps Michaelangelo when he is getting the Carrara marble for the San Lorenzo church façade He fights with many popes and patrons to create the art he wants, becoming known as Il Divino in his old age. He is courageous and passionate, and hungry for knowledge, risking death to dissect cadavers to learn about anatomy. Austere by nature, he is strong and spiritual, strong willed and direct. Michaelangelo Buonarroti trained as a painter but wants to be a sculptor. He sometimes works with Michaelangelo later and was one who fled Florence with him to Bologna. Michaelangelo teaches him to make it more realistic. All during Michaelangelo’s life, his father takes all his earnings, even when the artist is legally emancipated from him.Īn apprentice for Ghirlandaio, Giuliano Bugiardini does not know how to draw the human figure. He tries to educate his son so he can be part of the Wool Guild and be a merchant to win back the family money. He opposes the boy lowering the family honor further by going into trade (painting and sculpture). Lodovico di Lionardo Buonarroti-Simoni is the father of Michaelangelo who worries over the failing fortune of his clan. He disapproves his brother’s art at first but realizes it comes from devotion. He dies in a monastery of an overly ascetic life. Lionardo Buonarroti is the ascetic older brother of Michaelangelo, who is a monk and follower of Savanarola. Bramante opposes him with the Pope.Michaelangelo admires his design but not his sloppy building methods. Bramante represents new trends in art and architecture but he and Michaelangelo do not see eye to eye. Peter’s and takes the commission away from Sangallo, Michaelangelo’s friend. He considers Michaelangelo his heir as he had been Donatello’s.ĭonato Bramante is one of the famous Renaissance architects who influences Julius II to build a new St. Bertoldo had studied with Donatello and is the last living master of sculpture in Italy. Michaelangelo lives with Bertoldo, his scupture master, in the Medici palace in the school run by Lorenzo Medici. An old Florentine acquaintance of Michaelangelo’s and his friend in Rome, he takes over the bank when Galli dies. He becomes a lifelong friend in Rome.īalducci is the head bookkeeper for Jacopo Galli’s bank in Rome. Giralmo Benivieni teaches the young Michaelangelo to write sonnets in the Medici palace.īaglioni is an agent for Cardinal Riario of Rome, who brings Michaelangelo there and helps him negotiate with the Cardinal. Marco Aldovrandi is nephew of Gianfrancesco whose mistress is Clarissa Safi, one of the artist’s lovers. They read Dante together, and the artist illustrates the margins. She offers him some of her money to buy clothes when he is an apprentice.Īldovrandi is Michaelangelo’s friend and patron in Bologna, who takes him in and gets him the commission to finish Dell Arca’s statues. Michaelangelo’s paternal grandmother Monna Alessandra is the only one in the family who supports his desires.
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