Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Tomb of Michelangelo
Image View:
Top of monument with frescoes by Giovanni Battista Naldini (restored 2017); pilasters are trompe l'oeill
Creator:
Battista Lorenzi (Italian sculptor, ca. 1527-1594); Giorgio Vasari (Italian architect, 1511-1574); Giovanni Bandini (Italian sculptor, ca. 1540-1599); Giovanni Battista Naldini (Italian painter, ca. 1537-ca. 1591)
Location:
repository: Santa Croce (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
Right aisle, between first and second bay from the entrance
GPS:
43.768417 11.262722
Date:
completed 1578 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style)
Work Type 1:
monument
Work Type 2:
tomb
Work Type 3:
sculpture (visual work)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
white and purple marble; fresco
Technique:
carving (processes); construction (assembling); fresco painting (technique)
Subjects:
allegory; death or burial; portraits; Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574; Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564; Restoration and conservation
Description:
Vasari, commissioned by Duke Cosimo I de Medici, worked as the designer with several collaborators. In 1564, the year of his election to the Florentine Accademia del Disegno, Battista (di Domenico) Lorenzi provided a figure of Painting for Michelangelo's funeral catafalque and later, for Michelangelo's tomb in Santa Croce, the portrait of Michelangelo and the figure of Sculpture (later transformed into Painting). The final figure of Sculpture was done by Valerio Cioli. The figure of Architecture was sculpted by Giovanni Bandini. The frescoes were painted by Giovanni Battista Naldini, a student of Pontormo. The monument was restored in 2017. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart. com/)
Image Description:
Naldini was a student of Pontormo.
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
1A1-VC-MT-E26
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Tomb of Michelangelo