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Michelangelo Buonarroti: San Lorenzo
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After Lorenzo's death in 1492 Michelangelo traveled north from Florence, making a brief stop in Venice in 1494 and a longer one in Bologna, where he found work. By 1496 he was in Rome where, with the help of the banker Jacopo Galli, he obtained commissions for his two earliest large-scale works, the Bacchus (Florence, Bargello) and the Pietà (Rome, St. Peter's).
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During his years in the gardens of San Marco, Michelangelo was interested in human anatomy. Thus, his deeper studies of anatomy with human cadavers. Which, by the way, was strictly forbidden by the church. That’s why Victor Frankenstein was a mad man. Anyway, Michelangelo made a crucifix to the church of Santo Spirito, Niccoló.
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The Battle of the Centaurs and the Madonna of the Stairs (1490-92 Museum of Casa Buonarroti), where the transition between the 15th century and classicism can clearly be seen, date from this early period. He fled from Florence in 1494 to escape Charles VIII and went to Bologna where, after seeing the reliefs by Jacopo della Quercia, he sculpted a bas-relief for the Duomo of San Petronio.
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With each successive pope, Michelangelo was confirmed in his position as architect of St. Peter's, all the while taking on additional responsibilities from the popes or select patrons. During the reign of Pius IV (1559-1565), for example, Michelangelo designed the Porta Pia, transformed the Baths of Diocletian into the Christian church of Santa Maria degli Angeli, and designed the Sforza Chapel in Santa Maria Maggiore.
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His patron Lorenzo died in 1492; two years later, Michelangelo fled Florence, when the Medici were temporarily expelled following the rise of the fanatical Dominican friar Savonarola. He settled for a time in Bologna, where in 1494 and 1495 he produced three marble figures for the shrine of St Dominic in the church of San Domenico.
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Pius IV ... commissioned Michelangelo to remodel the tepidarium of the thermae of Diocletian as a church, using the ancient vaulting and eight monolithic granite columns of the Roman building. It was called Santa Maria degli Angeli, and was begun in 1561, remodelled in C18.
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