He designed and carved tombs for the family and also he designed the Medici Chapel 1524 Commissioned to design the Laurentian Library at San Lorenzo 1532 Visited Rome, met Tommaso de'Cavalieri ...

Milan, April - Michelangelo carved pagan symbols of the female sex organs in the Medici Chapels in Florence just as he painted them in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, a team from Brazil's Porto ...

Florence will host the most important museum on Michelangelo in the world thanks to the union between the Accademia Gallery and the Bargello Museums, the culture ministry's director general for ...

the palace was used for interior shots of the Vatican and the Sistine Chapel. Exterior shots of the Vatican’s gardens were filmed in the Villa Medici, an art museum in Rome. At the time ...

The Medici Chapel is part of the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence. It houses the tombs of prominent Medici family members and features sculptures by Michelangelo.

Pope Leo X (1513–1521): Waging war for family interests — Pope Leo X, a Medici, followed in Julius II’s footsteps in terms of military aggression. He sought to consolidate power by seizing ...

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With a passion for arguing and a sharp tongue to match his extraordinary genius, Michelangelo was both the enfant prodige and ...

Catherine de’ Medici, Cosimo’s fourth cousin once removed ... a relative of the Libyan Sibyl on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, and nothing like any of the paintings of young women that have been ...

Julius’ uncle was Pope Sixtus IV, a man who shared his interest in the arts and who had ordered the construction of the Sistine Chapel ... of Cardinal Giulio de’ Medici, who would later ...