Now it’s Bertoldo’s turn, after more than five centuries, to be celebrated as a master of the Italian Renaissance. Lorenzo de' Medici, the unofficial ruler of the Florentine Republic and the ...

Aleksandr Zykov via Flickr under CC BY-SA 2.0 In 1520, Cardinal Giulio de’ Medici—soon to be Pope Clement VII —commissioned Michelangelo to construct an ornate tomb for his family.