"as he casts the thunderbolt that overturns the chariot. The women below are Phaeton's grieving sisters. Three versions of this drawing by Michelangelo survive; this is perhaps the final version that was given to Cavalieri by September 6, 1533, the date of a letter to the artist telling him the drawing had been much admired by illustrious visitors (including the Pope and Cardinal Ippolito de' Medici). On another version of the composition, today in the British Museum, Michelangelo wrote a note to Cavalieri: ""Master Tommaso, if this sketch does not please you, tell Urbino so that I have time to"
"in the Pinacoteca Civica. In Gubbio, he painted a ""Pietà"" (after 1560) and a ""Road to Calvary"" (ca. 1564) now in the Duomo. He also worked with Lattanzio Pagani and Cristofano Gherardi at the no longer-extant Rocca Paolina of Perugia. Attribution: Dono Doni Dono Doni, also known as Adone Doni or Dono dei Doni (1505-1575) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period active mainly in Umbria. Doni was born at Assisi. While is said by Lanzi and others to have been a disciple of Pietro Perugino, the first we know of him was that in 1530 he was an"
"Dono Doni Dono Doni, also known as Adone Doni or Dono dei Doni (1505-1575) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period active mainly in Umbria. Doni was born at Assisi. While is said by Lanzi and others to have been a disciple of Pietro Perugino, the first we know of him was that in 1530 he was an assistant to Giovanni di Pietro (lo Spagna) at San Giacomo in Spoleto. In the church of San Francesco, at Perugia, is a picture by this master of the 'Last Judgment;' and one of the 'Adoration of the Kings' is in San"
"Pietà (Perugino) Pietà is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Pietro Perugino, executed around 1483-1493, and housed in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. The work was painted for the church of the convent of San Giusto alle mura together with the ""Agony in the Garden"" and a ""Crucifixion"". Renaissance art biographer Giorgio Vasari saw them in side altars of the church of San Giovanni Battista alla Calza, after the original location had been destroyed during the Siege of Florence in 1529. It was moved to the Uffizi in the 20th century. The dating of the work is disputed: it varies"
"Delivery of the Keys (Perugino) The Delivery of the Keys, or Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance painter Pietro Perugino, executed in 1481–1482 and located in the Sistine Chapel, Rome. The commission of the work originated in 1480, when Perugino was decorating a chapel in the Old St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Pope Sixtus IV was pleased by his work, and decided to commission him also the decoration of the new Chapel he had built in the Vatican Palace. Due to the size of the work, Perugino was later joined by a"
"of his extant works was commissioned by her husband, the lord of Lucca, Paolo Guinigi, in 1406. Additionally the cathedral contains Domenico Ghirlandaio's ""Madonna and Child with Saints Peter, Clement, Paul and Sebastian""; Federico Zuccari's ""Adoration of the Magi"", Jacopo Tintoretto's ""Last Supper"", and finally Fra Bartolomeo's ""Madonna and Child"" (1509). There is a legend to explain why all the columns of the façade are different. According to the tale, when they were going to decorate it, the inhabitants of Lucca announced a contest for the best column. Every artist made a column, but then the inhabitants of Lucca decided"
"the Pietà Chapel, which is indebted to Caravaggio's example. Baburen worked with another Dutch artist, David de Haen in this chapel. The two other paintings, ""The Mocking of Christ"" and ""The Agony in the Garden"" are variously attributed to either or both of the artists. The second chapel on the left, the Raimondi Chapel (1640), was designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. It includes Francesco Baratta's ""Saint Francis in Ecstasy"" and sculptures by Andrea Bolgi and Niccolò Sale. At the high altar are two tombs: that of Hugh O'Neill, The O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone and his son Hugh who predeceased"
"Donato Bramante Donato Bramante (1444 – 11 April 1514), born as Donato di Pascuccio d'Antonio and also known as Bramante Lazzari, was an Italian architect. He introduced Renaissance architecture to Milan and the High Renaissance style to Rome, where his plan for St. Peter's Basilica formed the basis of design executed by Michelangelo. His Tempietto (San Pietro in Montorio) marked the beginning of the High Renaissance in Rome (1502) when Pope Julius II appointed him to build a sanctuary over the spot where Peter was allegedly crucified. Bramante was born under the name Donato d'Augnolo, Donato di Pascuccio d'Antonio, or"
"create a 'Michelangelo museum', with original sculptures and drawings, to celebrate the fourth centenary of the artist's birth. Today, the gallery's small collection of Michelangelo's work includes his four unfinished ""Prisoners"", intended for the tomb of Pope Julius II, and a statue of Saint Matthew, also unfinished. In 1939, these were joined by a ""Pietà"" discovered in the Barberini chapel in Palestrina, though experts now consider its attribution to Michelangelo to be dubious. The ""David"" in the Accademia is the original. There is a replica in the Piazza della Signoria. Other works on display are Florentine paintings from the 13th"
"Peter's Basilica in Rome around 1542 and became ""Capomaestro"" and architect of the Duomo in Florence the following year. Among works by him in the church of Santa Maria Pimerana in Fiesole are a self-portrait in relief dated 1542 and his last work, a relief of Francesco del Fede. Other works include the effigy of Bishop Leonardo Bonafede, which lies on the pavement of the church of the Certosa near Florence, and the group of the Virgin and Child and St Anne, executed in 1526 for the altar of Orsanmichele. He was named a member (""Accademico"") of the prestigious Accademia"
"Vatican Basilica. The sacristy conserves a triptych of the ""Madonna and Child with Saints Anthony Abbot and Giuliano"" (1369) by Allegretto Nuzi; a ""Madonna in Glory between Saints Giuliano and Anthony of Padua"" by Vincenzo Pagani; a ""Madonna and Child with Saints John the Baptist, Sebastian, James the Major"" (1574) by Gaspare Gasparini; a ""Birth of Mary"" by Sforza Compagnoni; a ""Pietà"" by Filippo Bellini; a ""Miracle of St Gregory"" by Andrea Sacchi designed for the Gregorian chapel in St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. On the altar of the chapel of San Giuliano is a canvas depicting ""Julian before"
"Navona. Donato Bramante Donato Bramante (1444 – 11 April 1514), born as Donato di Pascuccio d'Antonio and also known as Bramante Lazzari, was an Italian architect. He introduced Renaissance architecture to Milan and the High Renaissance style to Rome, where his plan for St. Peter's Basilica formed the basis of design executed by Michelangelo. His Tempietto (San Pietro in Montorio) marked the beginning of the High Renaissance in Rome (1502) when Pope Julius II appointed him to build a sanctuary over the spot where Peter was allegedly crucified. Bramante was born under the name Donato d'Augnolo, Donato di Pascuccio d'Antonio,"
"Alexander I freed from prison by an Angel"" from San Giovanni Battista in Sant'Ansano in Greti; a ""Temptation of Saint Anthony"" (1620, Sant'Agostino); a ""Rest on the Flight to Egypt"" (San Pietro alle Scale, Siena); a ""Death of Blessed Antonino Patrizi"" (Monticiano, 1616), a ""Blessed Domenico dal Pozzo at the table"" now in the Certosa of Florence, a ""Birth of Virgin"" (1625, Church of Santa Maria dei Servi), and a painting (1628, Church of San Domenico). He painted a remarkable ""Allegory of the four seasons"" and a ""Parable of the blind men"", now in private collections. He also contributed to"
"Domine quo vadis? Domine, quo vadis? is a painting by the Italian Baroque painter Annibale Carracci (1560–1609), depicting a scene from the apocrypha Acts of Peter. Dating from c. 1602, it is housed in the National Gallery, London, where it is given the title Christ appearing to Saint Peter on the Appian Way. The subject is a rare representation in art of the theme Quo vadis. Annibale Carracci was the founder of the Italian Baroque painting school, called Bolognese School. This painting is one of his best known works. Peter is depicted fleeing from Rome to avoid crucifixion and has"
"Pantheon in the cemetery of the Certosa at Bologna. The design for the Pantheon was guided by Giuseppe Tubertini. Pedrini also painted various tombs in the Certosa, including those of Laghi, Carlo Chiesa e Vitale Bini, Ginevra Pepoli, Brigitta Giorgi Banti. In the Palazzo Tanari he was the figure painter for the landscape fresco artist Vincenzo Martinelli, and served a similar role in the Palazzo Pallavicini for Flaminio Minozzi. In 1830 he completed the ""Delivery of the Keys"" for a church in San Pietro Capofiume near Bologna. Filippo Pedrini Filippo Pedrini (Bologna, 1763 - Bologna, 1856) was an Italian painter."
"Michele di Matteo da Bologna Michele di Matteo, also sometimes used with further qualifications of ""da Bologna"" or ""Lambertini"" (active 1410- 1448 or 1469) was an Italian painter of the late Gothic period in Bologna. In 1410, he labored with Francesco Lola in painting processional standards for the city's reception of the Antipope Alexander V. He painted frescoes and designed windows for the Basilica San Petronio and the church of San Giacomo of Bologna. In 1447, he painted in the church of San Giovanni at Siena the ""twelve articles of the Apostles Creed"". He also painted a ""Pietà between Saints"
"ornament the gardens of San Marco and to form the library later named after him. In the saloons of his Florentine palace, in his villas at Careggi, Fiesole and Anibra, stood the wonderful chests painted by Dello di Niccolò Delli with stories from Ovid, the ""Hercules"" of Pollaiuolo, the ""Pallas"" of Botticelli, the works of Filippino and Verrocchio. De Medici lived entirely in the classical world; and yet if we read his poems we only see the man of his time, the admirer of Dante and of the old Tuscan poets, who takes inspiration from the popular muse, and who"
"Battista Dossi, Dosso Dossi, Cosmé Tura, Francesco del Cossa and Titian. In the 19th and 20th centuries, Ferrara again hosted and inspired numerous painters who grew fond of its eerie atmosphere. Among them Giovanni Boldini, Filippo de Pisis and Giorgio de Chirico. A large collection of paintings is displayed in the National Gallery of Palazzo dei Diamanti. The Renaissance literary men and poets Torquato Tasso (author of ""Jerusalem Delivered""), Ludovico Ariosto (author of the romantic epic poem ""Orlando Furioso"") and Matteo Maria Boiardo (author of the grandiose poem of chivalry and romance ""Orlando Innamorato"") lived and worked at the court"
"was housed in the cell beneath the fresco was likely to be elected. Contemporary records indicate at least three popes were housed beneath the fresco during the conclaves that elected them: Pope Clement VII, Pope Julius II, and Pope Paul III. Delivery of the Keys (Perugino) The Delivery of the Keys, or Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance painter Pietro Perugino, executed in 1481–1482 and located in the Sistine Chapel, Rome. The commission of the work originated in 1480, when Perugino was decorating a chapel in the Old St. Peter's Basilica in"
"in the Basilica di San Nicola da Tolentino and in the refectory of the Pomposa Abbey, as well as a 1333 fresco of ""St. Francis"" in the church of Montottone. Frescoes from a chapel in the former church of Santa Chiara in Ravenna are now in display at the National Museum of Ravenna. He died perhaps after 1340. Pietro da Rimini Pietro da Rimini (active 1315-1335) was an early 14th-century Italian painter. Pietro was born in Rimini and was a contemporary of the painters Giovanni and Giuliano da Rimini. He worked mainly in member and the Marche. Influenced by the"
"one another's style. Other painters that had works in the Siena Cathedral were Liberale da Verona and Girolamo da Cremona. What sets these artists apart is that it is believed that their pieces in the cathedral were what led to Benvenuto's great shift in style in the 1480s. In 1482, he was commissioned to paint ""Donation of the Keys to St. Peter"" in the ""Antiphonary of the Birth of St. John."" It was at this time that he saw Liberale and Girolamo's recent works in the cathedral that incorporated bright colors and manipulated light. As a result of this, he"
"by Rubens, the ""Assunzione della Vergine"" by Guido Reni. The Church of San Donato contains works of Barnaba da Modena, Nicolò da Voltri and Joos van Cleve, the Church of Santo Stefano by Giulio Romano and the Church of Santa Maria Assunta the sculptures by Filippo Parodi and Pierre Puget, very interesting is the . But most of the works are kept in the Palaces like Palazzo Bianco where """"Ecce Homo"""" by Caravaggio, """"Susannah and the Elders"""" by Veronese, and the ""Garden Party in Albaro"" by Magnasco are kept, Palazzo Rosso with the by van Dyck, by Guercino and works"
"Gonzaga"" by Ercole Graziani. Other paintings attributed to Graziani include the following works in the sacristy: ""St Peter after the triple denial of Christ"", ""Mystical Marriage of St Catherine""; ""Burial of St Catherine of Alexandria"". Also in the sacristy are a ""Camillo dè Lellis tending to the sick"" by Dante Bizzotto ((1911 - 1967); a statue representing ""St Anthony of Padua and Child Jesus"" by Giovanni Antonio Raimondi; and an ""Enthroned Madonna and Child with St Catherine and Lucy"" by Alessandro Stiatici. The stairwell to the oratory is frescoed with a ""Landscape with St Bartholomew"" by Ludovico Mattioli. The sanctuary"
"Pietà (Michelangelo) The Pietà (; ; 1498–1499) is a work of Renaissance sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City. It is the first of a number of works of the same theme by the artist. The statue was commissioned for the French Cardinal Jean de Bilhères, who was a representative in Rome. The sculpture, in Carrara marble, was made for the cardinal's funeral monument, but was moved to its current location, the first chapel on the right as one enters the basilica, in the 18th century. It is the only piece Michelangelo ever signed. This famous"
"collector. Tonti employed Antonio to paint four chapels in his church; other public commissions included a chapel in Santa Maria in Monticelli, work in Sant' Girolamo dei Schiavoni, Santa Maria in Trastevere, and Sant' Sebastiano fuori le Mura, and in Palazzo Mattei. Antonio and Guido Reni collaborated in the decoration of the ""Cappella dell’ Annunciata"" in the Palazzo Quirinal, painting a frieze of the ""Stanza del Diluvio"". He contributed, around 1616, to the Alexander frescoes done for Cardinal Peretti Montalto; other works were done for Marchese Giustiniani, Cardinal Orsino, the Ludovisi, Cavalier Sachetti, Dionigio Buonavia in Bologna; and of course"
"cycles probably came from Francesco Federico Frezzi, the bishop of Foligno and author of the ""Quadriregio"", a poem of the four kingdoms Love, Satan, the Vices, and the Virtues. Some of these frescoes were painted between 1411 and 1412 by Gentile da Fabriano, with the assistance of Jacopo Bellini. The designs were by Gentile, but their painting was almost completely done by pupils. The authorship of the frescoes was attested by Lodovico Coltellini, a scholar who saw in 1780 two receipts to Ugolino Trinci by Gentile da Fabriano for painting the halls. Some of the frescoes in the palace depicting"
"many at the Vatican, including: Michelangelo's ""The Crucifixion of St Peter"" and ""The Conversion of Saul"" at the Capella Paolina. He restored frescoes by Ciro Ferri and Baciccia in the cupola di Sant'Agnese in Agone; and frescoes by Raphael at the Chigi Chapel in Santa Maria del Popolo. He also frescoed several rooms of the Palaces Quirinale, Doria, Massimo, Lancillotti, Torlonia, Chigi, Del Drago; and also retouched the decorations of the cupola of the Basilica of St Peter's, and the facade of the Duomo of Orvieto. In Orvieto he also provided scenography for the theater, working alongside Cesare Fracassini. Working"
"Ludovico Buti Ludovico Buti (c. 1560 - after 1611) was an Italian painter, active mostly in Florence. Belonging to the late-Mannerist period, he worked along with more famous figures as Alessandro Allori, Bernardino Poccetti or Santi di Tito on large projects, including the decoration of certain ceilings of the Uffizi and the Grand Cloister of Santa Maria Novella. In 1589, the duke Ferdinando I commissioned the decoration of the ""Map Room"" and the ""Stanzino delle Matematiche"", following a design by Stefano Buonsignori. There is a fresco by Buti on the ""Annunciation"" at the Basilica of Our Lady of Humility in"
"of the spirit"", as a testimony to their high social status. Donato de' Bardi Donato Conte de' Bardi (Active 1426– died 1450/1451) was an Italian painter of the Quattrocento period. He was born in Pavia. He is cited as a painter in Genoa in 1426. In 1433, he painted an altarpiece of the ""Crucifixion with the Magdalen and Saints"" for the Cathedral. Another ""Crucifixion with Saints"" was painted for the Ospedale di San Paolo in Savona. A Maesta was completed after his death by Giovanni Giorgio in 1451. His work shows some Flemish influences. His brother Boniforte was also a"
"Domenico Fetti Domenico Fetti (also spelled Feti) (c. 1589 – 1623) was an Italian Baroque painter who had been active mainly in Rome, Mantua and Venice. Born in Rome to a little-known painter, Pietro Fetti, Domenico is said to have apprenticed initially under Ludovico Cigoli, or his pupil Andrea Commodi in Rome from circa 1604–1613. He then worked in Mantua from 1613 to 1622, patronized by the Cardinal, later Duke Ferdinando I Gonzaga. In the Ducal Palace, he painted the ""Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes"". The series of representations of New Testament parables he carried out for his patron's"
"the youth with a beret on the extreme right is Filippino's self-portrait. The old man with a red hat in the group near St Peter and Simon Magus, is Antonio del Pollaiolo. The young man below the archway and looking towards the viewer, is a portrait of Sandro Botticelli, Filippino's friend and teacher. In Simon Magus, some critics wish to see the poet Dante Alighieri, celebrated as the creator of the renowned Italian vernacular used by Lorenzo il Magnifico and Agnolo Poliziano. Masaccio's application of scientific perspective, unified lighting, use of chiaroscuro and skill in rendering the figures naturalistically established"
"the completion of the design was inevitable. On 7 December 2007, a red chalk sketch for the dome of St Peter's Basilica, possibly the last made by Michelangelo before his death, was discovered in the Vatican archives. It is extremely rare, since he destroyed his designs later in life. The sketch is a partial plan for one of the radial columns of the cupola drum of Saint Peter's. Michelangelo was a devout Catholic whose faith deepened at the end of his life. His poetry includes the following closing lines from what is known as poem 285 (written in 1554); """"Neither"
"Duke of Athens"", in which saint Anne gives the Florentines the banners of the arts but an evil angel chases Walter from the city - the fresco is now in the museum in Palazzo Vecchio. Prisoners were led along the via Ghibellina to the execution site near Torre della Zecca. Tabernacles were set up along the route to comfort the condemned prisoners, such as the 'Tabernacolo delle Stinche' painted in 1616 by Giovanni da San Giovanni and remodelled in the 19th century by the architect Luigi Cambray-Digny. Later the prison also housed debtors and bankrupts, including the historians Giovanni Villani"