Part 2 — INDEX

Abel, 44

Academy: Florence, 117, 260

Accursio: a messenger from Julius II., 51

Active Life; The Tomb of Julius II., 68, 225, 226, 227

Adam: Sistine Chapel, 13, note; 43, 163, 165, 171-175

Adonis, 129, 229

Adrian IV.: Pope 54, 190

Aginense: Cardinal, 51, 52, 146

Agnolo: Herald of Florence, 135

Agnolo: see Doni

Agostino: see Duccio

Agostino: San, the Isaiah of Raphael at, 177

Agnolo di Donnino: assistant, 151

Alberigo: Marchese, 52

Alberto: see Dürer

Albertina: Vienna, 193

Albertini: his statement, 164

Albizzi: Anton Francesco degli, portrait by Sebastiano, 197

Alcibiades, 87

Aldobrandini: sword-hilt designed for, 136

Aldovrandi: Gian Francesco, his kindness to the master, 18

Aldovrandi: Ulisse, sees a statue of Apollo, 108

Alessandro da Carnossa, 3, note

Alessandro de' Medici: Duke, his ill-will to the master, 59, 60, 62; flight, 201; 250, 305

Alexander the Great, 285, 286, 309, 320

Alexander VI.: Pope, 29

Alfonso: Duke of Ferrara, 60, 61, 204

Alva: Duke of, 265

Aman, 45

Amanati: see Bartolomeo

Ambrosio: Brother, 272-274; 289, 306

Anatomy: studies at Santo Spirito, 16; of animals as well as man, 75; dissection and a treatise upon it, 81

Ancestors of Christ: Sistine Chapel, 166, 169, 177

Andrea del Sarto, 103, note; studies the Cartoon, 127, 224

Angel: for the Shrine of San Domenico, 19, 104

Angelico: Fra, 219

Angeli: S.M. degli, 251

Anna: the Beautiful, 293

Antonio: a servant, successor to Urbino, 236, 258

Antonio: Maria da Legnia, 145

Antonio: San, copy, 7, 97; Cartoon for Mineghella, 264

Antonio: see Mini

Apelles, 278, 309; 320, 325, 326

Apollo: in the Bargello, 204, 228

Arcadelt: Giacomo, sets the master's madrigals to music, 207

Aretino, 222, 283

Arezzo: fortifications at, 202

Arno, 193; and see Cartoon

Arrigo Fiamingo: fresco, Sistine Chapel, 167

Ascanio: see Condivi

Assumption: by Daniele, with a portrait of the master, 253

Assunta: oratory of, 260

Athletes: Sistine Chapel, 13, note; 164, 167, 168, 173-178, 211

Athens, 156

Attalante, 146

Avignon, 293

Bacchus: carved in Rome, 24, 107, 108

Baccio d'Agnolo, 116

[pg 336]Baglioni: the traitor, 203

Baldassare: see Peruzzi

Baldassari: del Milanese, buys the god of Love, 21

Bandinelli: Baccio, studies the Cartoon, 126; Hercules and Cacus, 204, 270, 295

Bandini: Francesco, 236, 246

Baptistry: Florence, 255

Bargello: Florence, mask of a faun, 11; Tondo, 121, 129; Apollo, 205, 228; Brutus, 249

Bartolomei: Messer, 231

Bartolomeo: Amanati, letter to, 238

Bartolommea: widow of Buonarroto, 201

Bas-relief: Florentine love of, 121

Bassano, 174

Bathers: see Cartoon

Battista Benti: carves details in the Tomb of Julius II., 226

Battista del Cinque: carpenter, 197

Batista Lorenzi, 253, 262

Beatrice: of Mantua, 3

Beaumont: Sir George, presents a tondo to the Royal Academy, 121

Belvedere: works ordered by Julius III., 78

Beinbo, 76

Bene: Benedetto, copies the Leda, 204

Bentivogli: law, 18; return to Bologna, 40, 141

Benvenuto: see Cellini

Bernardo Cencio: Canon of St. Peter's, 180, 181

Bernardo da Bibbiena, 146

Bernardo della Ciecha, 116

Berlin, 106

Bertoldo: the master of Michael Angelo in Sculpture, 99, 100, 102

Berugetta: Alonso, 126

Biagio da Cesena: objects to nude figures, 222

Bibbiena: Cardinal, rebukes Cardieri, l7

Bible: the master's study, 86; of Raphael, 173

Bini: Bernardo, trustee for the Tomb, 51, 69

Blois: Chateau, 251

Boboli Gardens: the grotto with four statues, 129, 227

Boccaccio, 19

Bologna: flight to, 18-20; with Julius II. at, 39, 40; conversations at, 90, 132; the Colossal Bronze destroyed, 141, 171, 195, 291

Bonasoni: Giulio, engravings, a Pietà, 230; portrait of the master, 253

Bonifazio: Count, 3

Bononiensis: Tudius, engraves a Pietà, 230

Boon companions: of the master, 264

Borgerini: Pier Francesco, 182

Borghini: Don Vincenzo, opens the coffin, 261

Borgia: Cesare, see Valentino

Borgo, 178, 238

Botticelli: Sandro, letter addressed to him, 23, 107, 116; Popes and histories by, 166

Bramante: destroys S. Petronilla, 25; Tomb of Julius, 31; his errors, 32; rebuilding of S. Peter's, 34; suggests the painting of the vault, 41; and Raphael to finish it, 47; his shortcomings, 48; scaffold, 82; has the Pope's ear in Rome, 130; vault painting, 131, 164; "a brave architect," 238, 240-242, 295

Brancacci Chapel: see Masaccio

Brazen Serpent: Sistine Chapel, 46; 178

British Museum: drawings, advice to Mini, 192; for the tombs, 193

Bronze-coloured figures: Sistine Chapel, 169

Brothers of the master: see Buonarroto, Giovan Simone, Sigismondo

Bruciolo: invites the master to Venice, 78

Bruges, 29, 121

Brunelleschi: the lantern of, 192; his dome, 208

Brutus: bust of, Bargello, 249; nickname of Lorenzino, 250

Buggiardini: Giuliano assistant, 150, 155; paints the master's portrait, and a Madonna and Child from a cartoon of the master's, 157, 158, 252, 264

Buonarroti: see Michael Angelo

Buonarroti: Casa, bas-reliefs in, 102; 104; presented to Florence, 105; wax models of the David, 118

Buonarroti: Senator Filippo, 203

Buonarroto: brother of the master, 4; established in business, 109, 151, 152; letters to, 133, 134, 136, 141, 161, 181; his health, 165; dies of the plague in the master's arms, 201

Buoninsegna: Domenico, 183

[pg 337]Cain, 44

Calcagni: see Tiberio

Camerino: Duke of, writes to the master, 217

Campidoglio: plans of the master, 248; his portrait there, 253, 270, 305

Campo Santo: Pisa, 219, 220

Canossa, 3-5

Çapata: João, 306, 307, 310, 316, 318, 321

Capitol: see Campidoglio

Capponi: Niccolo, 201

Caprese: the master born at, 5

Cardiere: improvisatore, his dream, 16, 17

Carlino: chamberlain, 147

Carlo degli Albizzi, 147

Caro: Annibal, 76, 85

Carota: woodcarver, 197

Carpi: Cardinal, 246

Carrara, 30, 52, 53, 183, 185, 190, 192

Cartoon of Pisa, 37, 124, 125; Vasari's account, 126; Cellini's, 127

Cassandra Ridolfi: marries Leonardo, 254

Caterina: Santa, 31

Catherine de' Medici: letter from, 251

Cavalcani, 24

Cavalcanti: altar of, 261

Cavalieri: Tomaso dei, a friend, 85; drawings for, 230; letter from, 231, 246, 248, 258, 259

Cellini: Benvenuto, 91, 92, 118; describes the Cartoon, 127, 202, 252, 255

Centaurs: battle of, see Deianira

Cesena: Bishop of, 85

Charles: the Emperor, 309, 310, 312

Charon, 71

Chigi, 292

Chiostro Verde: S.M. Novella, 173

Christ: on the Cross, modelled for Mineghella, 264; taken down from the Cross, Vittoria Colonna, 85; the Risen, in the Minerva, 74, 180, 181, 187-189; a statuette, 259

Ciapino: carpenter, 197

Cioli: see Valerio

Clement VII: Pope, 10; Medici Library, 54; clemency, 58; Medici Tombs, 59; recalls the master to Rome, 60, 64; orders the Day of Judgment, 64, 78; the New Sacristy, 186; elected Pope, 190-192, 195; his postscript, 197; and curious commission, 198; besieged in St. Angelo, 200; anger abates, 203, 207, 231, 277, 292, 308

Colombo: Realdo, anatomist, 81

Colonna: Vittoria, Marchioness of Pescara, poetry, 76; a Christ made for her, 74; the master is enamoured of her divine spirit, 85; visits her death-bed, 85; drawings and sonnets for her, 230, 234; conversations at St. Silvester, 271-304, 306-308, 312

Colossus: a proposed, 198, 199

Condivi: Ascanio della Ripa, the Life by, 3-93, 163, 164

Connétable: de Montmorenci, and the Slaves, 227

Consiglio: a mercer, 110, 111

Consiglio: Cartoon for the Sala del, 37

Constantinople: the designs to throw a bridge from Pera to, 37; is invited to, 78

Contemplative Life: Tomb of Julius II., 28, 225-227

Contracts: for the Madonna della Pietà of St. Peter's, 112; the David, 115; and the Risen Christ, 180, 181

Conversion of St. Paul, 232

Cornelia: wife of Urbino, 256

Correggio: perfected Melozzo's method, 131, 172

Cortono: Cardinal, 201

Cosimo: see Medici

Cosmo: St., 194

Creation: the, 164, 165, 167, 170; of Eve, 171, 175, 291; of man, see Adam

Creator: the, Sistine Chapel, 43, 44, 171

Crispo: Cardinal, 84

Croce: see Santa Croce

Cronaca: Il, 116, 120

Crucifixion: in wood for Santo Spirito, 16; drawings, 234; by Daniele, 253

Cuio: Capitano, the master sups with, 197

Cupid: see Love

Damino: St., 194

Dandolo: Marco, opinion of Baglioni, 203

Daniele da Volterra, 223, 251-253; writes for the master and acts as executor, 257-259, 263

Dante, 19, 68, 71; the master's special devotion to, 86, 184, 220

[pg 338]Danti: Vincenzio, 229

David and Goliath: Sistine Chapel, 46, 178

David: the bronze, 28, 119; sent to France, 120

David: the colossal statue, 27, 114; the contract, 115; contemporary account of the transport, 116; removed to the Academy, 117

Dawn: marble statue in the New Sacristy, 172, 194, 203, 209, 211, 214, 293.

Day: marble statue in the New Sacristy, 58, 194, 203, 209, 212

Day of Judgment: Sistine Chapel, 45, 166, 183; the fresco begun, 216; shown to the public, 219; described, 219; copies in the Corsini Palace, 222, and in the Naples Museum, 253

Death: the master's sayings on, 236, 236

Deianira: the rape of, a bas-relief, 14, 103

Deliverances of the Chosen People, 166, 169, 178

Delphic Sibyl, 174

Deluge: see Flood

Demosthenes, 75, 298

Deposition: see Pietà

Design: the power of, 295-298, 308-311, 322.

Desnoyers: orders the destruction of the Leda, 62, 204

Diocletian: the Baths of, a restoration, 251

Diognetus, 286

Diomede Leoni: letter to Leonardo, 257

Dionigi: Cardinal di, orders a Pietà, 25, 112

Diploma Gallery: Burlington House, the tondo, 121

Divina Commedia: the master's drawings for, 184

Dome of St. Peter's, 208, 233, 246

Domenico: see Ghirlandaio

Domenico: San, Bologna, The Angel for the Shrine, 19, 104

Donatello: praised by the master, 28, who comes under the influence of his foreman, 99, 106; St. George, and Judith, 117; his influence, 118, 170, 178, 295

Donati: Federigo, physician, 258

Donato: see Giannoti

Doni: Agnolo, the tondo painted for, 29, 122

Doria: Andrea, project for his statue 190; his portrait by Sebastiano, 191, 291, 313

Dosso, 290

Drawing: Ghirlandaio's book, 8; copies of old masters, 9; for the tombs of the Medici, 193; its power, 295-297; in war, 308, and in peace, 311, 322

Duccio: Agostino, and the block of marble, 27

Duke of Florence, 246, 248, 250, 259, 260, 262

Duoino of Florence: the shadow of, 127, 208; the Pietà, placed under, 236

Dürer: Albert, 29, 81, 281

Ecouen: the slaves at, 227

Enrico II., 3

Epiphany: a cartoon, 260

Ercole: Don, captain of Florence, 61

Esi, 291

Esther: Queen, 46

Euclid, 75

Eve, 43

Evening, 194, 203, 209, 214

Expulsion, 172, 175

Façade of San Lorenzo, 183, 185, 227, 228

Fall of Man: Sistine Chapel, 43, 164, 165, 170

Farnese Palace: the cornice, 233, 237

Farnese: the House of, the master's love for, 84

Father of the master: see Lodovico

Fattore: Il, 256

Fattuci: Ser Giovan Francesco, letters to, 133, 143, 191, 193, 195, 199, 242; he rebukes the master for his modesty, 192

Faun: a copy in marble, 10; the Mask in the Bargello, 11, note; a drawing in the Louvre, 98, note

Febbre: Madonna della, see Madonna

Fernando di Gonzaga: Signer, 205

Femes: Cardinal, 270, 313

Ferrara: the master visits the fortifications, 60, 202

Ferrara: Duke of, disposes of the Colossal Bronze, 141; the master's visit to, 202, 290

Festa: Constanza, sets the master's madrigals to music, 208

Ficino: Masilio, 102

[pg 339]Fidelissimi: Gherardo, physician, 258

Fight for the Standard: Leonardo da Vinci's cartoon, 124, 127

Figio Vanni: Battista, Pope's agent, 203

Filippiuo: see Lippi

Flanders: the master's opinion of the painting of, 279-281, 324

Flood: the, Sistine Chapel, 44, 46, 165, 167, 170-173, 214

Florence, 3-6, 15-20, 22-29, 36, 37, 50, 51; siege of, 56, 201; is betrayed, 57, 203; 62; gossip, 97; 106-114; 130; 158; the master purchases land for a studio, 184, 208, 253-255, 260, 290, 293, 305

Fontainebleau: the Leda at, 204, 294

Forli: Bishop of, Pier Giovanni, 83

Fortification: the master made Commissary-General, 55; the Borgo, 238

France: statue of Hercules sent to, 14; painting in, 294

Francesca: daughter of Buonarroto, 201

Francesca: mother of the master, 109

Francesco d'Ollanda, 269-327

Francesco: San, a cartoon drawn for a barber, 107; and another for Mineghella, 264

Francesco: see Bandini and Urbino

Francesco: Urbino, da, schoolmaster, 6

Franciabigio: Il, studies the Cartoon, 127

Francia: Il, 90

Francis I.: of France buys the Leda, 62; invites the master to France, 78; letter to, 232, 294

Frizzi: Frederigo, finishes the Risen Christ, 188

Gaeta: see Pier Luigi

Galatea: by Raphael, 292

Galli: Jacopo, commissions the Bacchus, 24, 107, 112

Galli: owned the Bacchus and the little Cupid, 25

Gallio Subelloni, 247

Gallo: Antonio, 226

Ganymede: a drawing, 231

Gatta: Bartolommeo della, 166

Gems: engraved, shown to the master by the Magnificent, 13; motives from intaglios, Adam, 171; Judith, 178; Leda, 202

Genoa: the master proposes to retire to, 66; the Senate orders a statue of Doria, 190; the medallion, Albergo dei Poveri, 237, 291

George: St., by Donatello, 117

Germany, 200, 283, 291

Ghibelline, 4

Ghiberti: Lorenzo, 100, 170

Ghirlandaio: Domenico, the master's first teacher, 7, 8, 97; the master leaves him, 10, 99; histories in the Sistine Chapel, 166

Ghirlandaio: Ridolfo, Vasari's gossip, 97; worked from the Cartoon, 126

Giacomo del Duca: carves details on the Tomb of Julius II., 226

Giacomo della Porta, 249

Giangiacomo de' Medici: his monument at Milan, 250

Giannotti: Donato, a friend of the master's, 85, 246, 249

Giant: see David

Gié: Maréchal de, 119

Giorgio: see Vasari

Giotto: studies from, 105, 158

Giovanni da Reggio, 187, 188

Giovanni da Udine, 197, 290

Giovanni dall' Opera, 262

Giovanni de' Marchesi: stone-carver, 224

Giovanni de' Medici, 17

Giovanni: a gem-engraver, 231

Giovanni: San, in Laterano, 320, 321

Giovanni: Michi, 150

Giovanni: San, dei Fiorentini, designs for, 248

Giovannino: San, a, 106

Giovan Simone: joins Buonarroto in the cloth business, 109, 133, 135; his behaviour troubles the master, 151; a letter to him, 153; he begins to do well, 162; death, 254

Girolamo da Fano: retouches the Day of Judgment, 223

Gismondo: to join Buonarroto, 152; visits Rome, 161

Giugni: Galeotto, envoy, 202

Giulia: La, the cannon cast from the wreck of the Bronze, 141, 202

Giulia: the Villa, works ordered by Julius III., 78, 292

Giuliano: a marble statue in the New Sacristy, 193, 194, 211, 212

Giuliano de' Medici: his courtesy, 17

Giulio Romano, 290, 293

Gondi: the bank of, 78

Gondi: Filippo, hides his goods, 201

[pg 340]Gondi: Giambattista, 251

Gonfaloniere: see Soderini

Gottifredo, 3

Granacci: Francesco, 7, 9, 11, 98, 99; studies the Cartoon, 126; helps to provide assistants, his letter, 149, 151

Grand Canal: a design for a bridge, 74

Grotesque, 316-318

Guelph, 4

Guidobaldo: Duke of Urbino own's the god of Love, 23

Guidoccione, 76

Haarlem: drawings in the Teyler Museum, 253

Hawkwood: Sir John, 124

Henry II.: of France, 251

Hercules: a marble statue, 14, 105

Hercules and Cacus, 204

Hercules strangling Antæus: a wax model, 252

Holkham Hall: Cartoon at, 38, 124, 125

Holy Family with Shepherds, the, 122

Homer, 76, 78, 173

Human form: the master's love for the beauty of, 87

Imitators of the master, 263

Indaco: Jacopo L', assistant, 150, 155; he grumbles, 157, 264

Inscriptions, 262, 263

Intaglio: see Gems

Ippolito de' Medici, 201

Isaiah: by Raphael, 177

Italian painting; the master's opinion of, 280, 281

Jacopo del Conte, 252

Jacopo della Quercia: studied by the master, 136, 170, 171

Jacopo di Sandro: an assistant, 151

Jacopo: see Galli, L'Indaco, Sansovino

Jean: makes a model of the Dome, 247

Jeremiah: the Prophet, 174

Joel, 174

Jonah, 221

Judith, 13, 46, 178; of Donatello, 117

Julius II.: Pope, calls the master to Rome and orders his Tomb, 28-30, 128, 129; offends the master, 35, 38, 130; the Colossal Bronze for Bologna, 40, 130, 132, 134; it is placed on San Petronio, but is destroyed by the mob and made into a cannon, 141; orders the Vault of the Sistine Chapel to be painted, 48, 50, 164; the master's love for him, 62; and his house, 69, 77; he is satisfied, 165, 179; death, 180, 195, 202; the Tragedy of the Tomb of, 216, 224, 226

Julius III.: Pope, 63; a patron of the Arts and of the master, 78, 80, 83, 235, 242; confirms the master in his office, 244; death, 245

Julius Cæsar, 310, 315

King of France gives the Slaves to Montmorenci, 227, and see Francis I.

Lactancio Tolomei, 271-322

Lana: Consuls of the Arte della, 115, 120

Lantern: of the New Sacristy, 192

Lapo Antonio di Lapo: assistant at Bologna, 133; is dismissed, 134; 136

Last Judgment: see Day of Judgment

Leda: the, motive from a gem, 13, note; painted for the Duke of Ferrara but sent to France, 61, 202, 204, 214

Leghorn, 184

Leicester: the Earl of, his cartoon at Holkham, 125

Lenoir: M., purchases the Slaves for France, 227

Leo X.: Pope, 4, 5, 10; orders the façade of San Lorenzo, 51; his fervour spent, 54, 78, 182-185; death, 190

Leone Leoni: the monument at Milan, 250; his medal of the master, 252

Letters: from, Catherine de' Medici, 251; Duke of Camerino, 217; Francesco Granacci, 149; Lodovico, 111; Pietro Roselli, 130; Sebastiano, 185, 186, 187, 188, 205; Tomaso del Cavalieri, 231. From the master to, Amanati, 238; Buonarroto, 133, 134, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 161, 162, 181; Cardinal Carpi, 241; Fattucci, [pg 341]133, 143, 191, 193, 195, 199, 242; Francis I., 232; Giovansimone, 153; Lionardo, his nephew, 246, 248, 254, 257; Lodovico, 110-112, 135, 151, 156, 159, 164; Lorenzo di' Pierfrancesco, 23; nephew of Pope Paul, 242; Sebastiano, 197; Spina, 194; Topolino, 190; Vasari, 245, 255. From Diomede Leoni to Lionardo, 257; from Tiberio Calcagni to Lionardo, 257

Library: Medici, ordered by Clement VII., 54, 197, 250

Libyan Sibyl, 174

Light separated from Darkness, Sistine Chapel, 170, 174, 176

Lignano: Antommaria, banks money for the Colossal Bronze, 40

Lionardo da Vinci, 116; his cartoon, 124, 209, 327

Lionardo di Compago: saddle-maker, 184

Lionardo: nephew of the master, 104; letters to, 246, 248, 254, 257; marries Cassandra, 254; receives news of the master's illness, 257; and death, 260; orders Vasari to design the Tomb, 262

Lippi: Filippino, 116

Lodovico del Buono: founder, assists the master at Bologna, 133, 134

Lodorico di Leonardo Buonarroti Simoni, father of the master, 5, 7, 11, 13, 15, 109; letters to, 110, 111, 112, 135, 137, 151, 156, 159, 162, 164: letter from, 111

Loggia dei Lanzi, 116, 129, 228

Loggia of the Vatican, 263, 292

Lorenzetto: worked from the cartoon, 127

Lorenzino: nicknamed Brutus, 250

Lorenzo: San, the facade, 51, 183, 185; obsequies of the master at, 262

Lorenzo: San, the pulpits of, 100, 103, 178

Loreto, 265

Lottino: Il, 85, 246

Louis XIII: 204

Louvre: the two Slaves, 116

Love: a god of, in marble, made to imitate the antique, 21, 107; a little, carved for Galli, 25, 107, 108

Lucan, 299

Lucca, 3

Lucrezia: second wife of Lodovico, 109

Luiz: Infanta D., 169

Madonna and Child: a bas-relief in the Casa Buonarroti, 104

Madonna and Child: marble statue, Bruges, 29

Madonna and Child: marble statue, New Sacristy, San Lorenzo, 59, 194, 215

Madonna and Child with Angela: National Gallery, from a cartoon by the master, 157

Madonna and Child with St. John: marble tondo, Bargello, 121, 122

Madonna and Child with St. John: marble tondo, Diploma Gallery, 121, 122

Madonna and Child with St. Joseph: painted tondo, Ufflzi, 29, 122

Madonna della Pietà: of St. Peter's 25, 26, 112, 113, 232, 234

Madonna: medallion at Genoa, 237

Maffei: the Most Reverend, 84

Malaspina: Lionardo, 85

Manfidi: Angelo, second herald, 116

Mantegna: Andrea, 290

Mantua, 3, 290

Mantua: Cardinal of, commends the Moses, 67

Mantua: the Marchesana, 22, 23

Marc Antonio Raimondi: his engraving of the Cartoon, 125

Marcello Venusti: his copy of the Day of Judgment, 253

Marcellus II.: Pope, Cardinal Marcello Cervini, 244; Pope, 245

Margarite: of Austria, 305

Mario Scappuci, 180; 181

Martin Schongauer: the master copies his engraving, 7, 97

Masaccio: study of, 105, 172

Maso del Bosco: carves the portrait of Julius II. for the Tomb, 226

Matilda: Countess, 3

Mattea da Lecce: Sistine Chapel, 167

Matthew: St., marble statue in the Court of the Academy, Florence, 74, 118, 228

Maturino: worked from the Cartoon, 127, 292

Maximilian: Emperor, 279

Medal: Leone's, of the master, 252

Medici: Alessandro de', 59, 60, 62, 201, 250, 305

Medici: Cardinal de', see Clement VII.

Medici: Cosimo de' 51, 208

Medici: Cosimo de', First Grand Duke of Tuscany, 104, 209

[pg 342]Medici Garden, 9, 99

Medici: House of, driven out of Florence, 18, 55, 201, 290

Medici: Lorenzo di Pier Francesco de', 21, 23, 106; letter to, 107

Medici: Lorenzo de', the Magnificent, sees the master at work in his garden, 10, 100; takes him into his household, 12, 13; death, 14, 105; his ghost appears to Cardiere, 16, 17, 193, 194, 208, 211, 212

Medici: Pier de', 15, 17

Medici rule, 215

Medici Tombs: in the New Sacristy of San Lorenzo, 58, 173, 203, 208, 250, 252

Melozzo da Forli: vault painting of, 131

Menichella: Domenico, 205, 206

Metauro, 193

Metello Vari: dei Porcari, 180, 181, 188

Michael Angelo: claims descent from the House of Canossa, 3; his ancestors, 4; birth and horoscope, 5; foster-mother and schoolmaster, 6; first painting, 7, 97; apprenticed to Ghirlandaio, 8, 97; drawings, 8, 9, 98; studies in the Medici Gardens under Bertoldo, 9, 99; carves the head of a faun, 10, 11; enters the House of Medici, 12, 102; halcyon days with Lorenzo who presents him with a violet-coloured mantle, 12, note, 102; incited by Poliziano, he carves the Rape of Deianira, 14, 103; grief at the loss of his patron, 14; the lost Hercules, 14, 105; makes a snow-statue for Piero, 15; studies anatomy at Santo Spirito and carves a crucifix in wood for the Prior, 16; fears of Cardiere, 17; and flight to Bologna, 18; the Angel of the Shrine of San Domenico, 19, 105; returns to Florence, 21, 106; the San Giovannino and the god of Love, 21, 22, 23, 106, 107; first visit to Rome, 22, 107; carves a Bacchus and a little Cupid, 24, 25, 107, 108; and the Madonna della Pietà, 25, 112; returns to Florence, 27, 28, 114-120; the Madonna of Bruges, 29, 121; the three Tondi, 29, 121-124; the Cartoon of Pisa, 37, 38, 124-127; summoned to Rome by Julius II., 29, 128; who orders the Tomb, 30-34, 128-130; marbles brought from Carrara, 30, 34, 128; flight from Rome, 85, 36, 130; works in Florence on the Cartoon, 37, 130; joins Julius at Bologna, 39, 132; the Colossal Bronze, 40, 133-142, 144, 145; returns to Florence, 143; but is summoned to Rome, 143; to paint the vault of the Sistine Chapel, 41-49, 145-165; descriptions of the vault, 42-46, 167-179; death of Julius, 50, 146, 180; proceeds with the Tomb, 51, 180-182; but Leo X. orders a facade for San Lorenzo, 51; quarries at Carrara and Pietra Santa, 52, 183, 185; the facade abandoned, 54, 185; the Library, 54; the New Sacristy, 54, 186; and the Medici Tombs, 68-60, 192-194, 208-216; the Siege of Florence, the master made Commissary-General of Fortifications, 55-58; visits Ferrara, 60; flight to Venice, 66; return to duty, 57; the fall of Florence, 67, 203; the master in hiding, but he is allowed to return to work on the Tombs, 68, 203; the Leda, 61, 62, 202; the Risen Christ, 74, 180, 187, 188; new agreement with the executors of Julius, 62-64, 194; the master is called to Rome by Clement VII. and leaves Florence for the last time, 62, 208; the Day of Judgment, 64, 70, 71, 216-224; Paul III. appoints the master chief architect, sculptor, and painter to the Vatican, 216; the Tomb of Julius erected in San Pietro ad Vincula, 67-69, 195, 224-227; the frescoes in the Cappella Paolino, 73, 232; the Pietà of S.M. del Fiore, 73, 234-237; the cornice of the Farnese Palace, 238; St. Peter's, 238, 239, 246; the Brutus, 249; S.M. degli Angeli, 251; a grand-nephew born, 265; death of Urbino, 256, 256; a visit to the country near Spoleto, 256; illness, 268; death, 258; works left in his house, 259; his body is deposited in SS. Apostoli, 260; conveyed to Florence, 260; and carried to Santa Croce, 261; his imitators, 263; character and endowments of the master, 77; his love of all beautiful things, 87; his abstemious life, 88; generosity, 88, 264, 265; a description [pg 343]of his person, 91; and the colour of his hair and eyes, 92; the master visits S. Silvester, 273; and expresses his opinion of the quiet life of work, 276; of painting in Flanders, 279; on drawing, 295-297, 308-322; on working quickly or slowly, 325; on the value of paintings, 314; on grotesque, 316; and on devotional painting, 319.

Milan, 158, 250

Milliarini: Professor, discovers a statue, 108

Minerva: the church of S.M. Sopra, 74, 180, 181

Mini: Antonio, pupil of the master, 192, 204, 264

Mini: Paolo, 207

Miniato: San, fortifications, 55, 202, 203

Minighella, 264

Monciatto: woodcarver, 115

Montanto: Antonio, 184

Montelupo, 194

Montevarchi: Ser Giovanni di Guasparre, 151

Montevecchio; Cardinal, 63

Montorsoli, 194

Moscheroni: Flemish merchants, 29

Moses: marble statue, the Tomb of Julius, 33, 67, 68, 129, 167, 182, 225

Mother: of the Master, see Francesca

Mould on the Vault, 46, 161

Mozza: Via, 184

Nanni di Baccio Bigio: his intrigues, 242, 244, 247

Naples: copy of the Day of Judgment, 253

National Gallery, 116, 157, 204, 265, 292, 330, 331

Neptune: proposed statue of Andrea Doria as, 190, 191

Nero, 275, 285

New Sacristy of San Lorenzo, 192, 208, 293

Nicholas V.: Pope, 34

Nicolo di Bari: the ark of San Domenico, 105

Nicolo: San, beyond Arno, 203

Night: marble statue, New Sacristy, 58, 194, 203, 204, 209, 213, 214, 293

Noah: the Sacrifice of, Sistine Chapel, 44, 45

Novella: S.M., the first art school of the master, 99

Oil painting; the master's opinion of 217

Ollanda: see Francesco

Onofrio: San, the master's workshop at, 124

Operai: of the Duomo, 115, 120

Orcagna, 99

Orvieto, 221

Ottavio Farnese: the marriage of, 306

Ovid, 299

Oxford: drawings at, anatomy students, 16; after two destroyed frescoes, 166; design for alterations at San Lorenzo, 198, 230

Padua, 290

Palla: Giovanni Battista della, 105

Paolina: Cappella, 224

Paolo Galli: owned the Bacchus and the little Cupid, 25

Paris: the Leda goes to, 204

Parma, 3, 291

Parmigiano, 291, 327

Paul: St., conversion of, fresco, 73, 101

Paul III.: Pope, elected, 66; visits the master, 67; orders him to proceed with the Day of Judgment, 70, 73, 78, 80, 84; appoints the master chief architect, 216; his answer to Messer Biagio, 223; orders the frescoes for his chapel, 224, 225, 237, 239; death, 242, 248, 276, 314

Paul IV.: Pope, 223

Pavia: Cardinal of, 132, 141, 147

Penseroso: Il, 203

Perino del Vaga, 127, 238, 270, 291, 327

Perspective, 82

Perugino, 77, 166, 216

Peruzzi: Baldassari, 238, 240, 242, 292, 295, 327

Pesaro, 290

Pescara: Marchioness of, see Colonna

Pesellino: studies from, 105

Peter: St., a blocked out statue, 259

Peter: St., crucifixion of, alfresco, 73

Peter's: the church of St., new design for, 25, 33, 83; plans altered to embrace the project of the Tomb, 129; the master undertakes the works, [pg 344] 238, 243, 244, 245, 249, 259, 291, 292, 305

Petrarca, 19; and Tuscan rhyme, 76

Petronilla: Santa, the Madonna della Pietà placed in the church of, 25, 112

Petronio: San, a marble statuette finished by the master, 105

Petronio: San, the master hears mass in the church of, 39

Phæton: a drawing, 231

Phidias, 156, 294

Piacenza: the ferry revenue goes to the master, 216

Piecolomini: Cardinal Francesco, orders fifteen statues, 114

Pico della Mirandola, 102

Pier Luigi: Gaeta, 247

Piero di Cosimo, 103, note, 116

Pierre Mariette: the fate of the Leda, 204

Pietà: a drawing, 259

Pietà: of S.M. del Fiore, 73, 233, 236, 262

Pietà: the Palazzo Rondini, 237

Pietà: Viterbo, by Sebastiano, 265

Pietà: see Madonna della Pietà

Pietra: Santa, marble quarries, 52, 53, 183-185

Pietro Matteo d'Amelia, 150

Pietro: San, in Montorio, wall painting by Sebastiano, 101, 265, 292

Pietro: San, in Viticula, the Tomb of Julius II. set up, 67, 129, 182

Pietro: San, Maggiore, Florence, 260

Pietro Urbano: a workman, 133

Pietro Urbino, 187, 264

Pilote: goldsmith, 264

Pinti: Borgo, the master's house in, 120

Pintoricchio: Bernardino, 166

Piombo: see Sebastiano

Pisa: fortifications, 202; picture by Buggiardini, 158; 291

Pisa: see Cartoon

Pisani: pulpits of the, 103

Pisano: Giovanni, 177

Pistoia: San Andrea at, 177; 264

Pitti: Bartolomineo, 121

Pius III.: Pope, see Piccolomini.

Pius IV.: Pope, elected, 245; confirms the master in his office, 247, 250

Pius V.: injures the Day of Judgment, 228

Plato, 75, 87

Plutarch, 286, 326

Po: the river, 193; revenue of a ferry, 216

Poggibonsi, 35

Pole: Cardinal, a friend of the master, 84

Polidoro, 292, 327

Poliziano: recognises the master's lofty spirit, 13, 102, 103

Pollaiuolo: Salvestro del, nephew of Antonio, 139

Pollaiuolo: Simone il, 131

Polvaccio: Roman quarry, 187

Pompey, 286, 310

Ponte: Maestro Bernardo dal, helps to cast the Colossal Bronze, 136, 139

Ponte Rotto, 245

Pontormo: Il, 127, 264

Porta del Popolo, 251

Porta Pia, 251

Portraits of the master, 252, 263

Praxiteles, 294

Prophets: Sistine Chapel, 42, 45, 164, 166-170, 176-178, 211

Protogenes, 325

Psyche: the Story of, by Raphael, 292

Pulci: Luigi, 102

Raffaellino: offers to come as assistant, 149

Raffaello da Monte Lupo: his autobiography, 121; the Madonna for the Tomb of Julius, 224-226

Raising of Lazarus: by Sebastiano, the master's design for, 265

Raphael: da Urbino, proposed by the master as painter of the Sistine, 41, 47; studies the style of the master, 77; he is praised by the master, 89; his painting of Doni, 122; studied the Cartoon, 126; his manner with his assistants, 155; the proposition of Bramante, 164; cartoons for tapestry, 167; his composition of the Sacrifice of Noah, 173; Sibyls at S.M. della Pace, 177; a putto, 178, 197, 221, 238, 240, 242, 256, 263, 271, 292

Ravenna, 184

Realdo: physician, 91

Redemptions of Israel, 166, 169, 178

Reggio, 3

Rembrandt, 172, 224

Reynel: King of France, 293

Riccio: Luigi del, nurses the master when ill, 227

[pg 345]Ricordi: the vault finished, 165; the facade of San Lorenzo abandoned, 185; marbles for the sacristy, 187; 192; Gondi hides goods in the New Sacristy, 201

Ridolfi: Cardinal, 85

Ridolfo Pio of Carpi: Cardinal, letter to, 241; the Brutus for, 249

Ridolfo: see Ghirlandaio

Rimini: a post on the Chancery bestowed on the master, 216

Risen Christ: see Christ

Robertet: Florimond, secretary, receives the bronze David, 119, 120

Rocco: a San, drawn for Minighella, 264

Rondini: Palazzo, Pietà in, 237

Rontini: Baccio, cures the master from the effects of his fall, 219

Romans: claim him as a citizen, 260

Rome: the master's first visit, 29, 30 37, 41, 107, 109, 111, 121, 128 130, 184, 185; the sack of, 200, 205; the master returns finally, 216, 237, 240, 246, 247, 253, 256, 260, 270, 291, 305, 314

Rosselli: Cosimo, 116, 166

Rosselli: Piero di Jacopo, plasters the vault, 149

Rosselli: Pietro, letter to the master, 130

Rosselmini: Count Guarlandi, 106

Rosso: II, worked from the Cartoon, 127

Rovere: see Julius II.

Rovezzano: Benedetto da, 119

Rovano: Cardinal, see Dionigi

Royal Academy: see Diploma Gallery

Rucellai: recommendation to, 24

Ruffilni: Alessandro, groom of the Chamber, 83

Sacrarium: at San Lorenzo, design, 198

Sacrifice of Noah, 172, 173

Sacristy of San Lorenzo: see Medici Tombs

Sack of Rome, 200, 205

Salt-cellar: design for, 217

Salvestro da Montanto, 226

Salvestro: jeweller, 116

Salviati: Alamano, 30

Salviati: Cardinal, 244

Salviati: Cecchino, rescues fragments of the arm of the David, 117

Salviati: Michael Angelo, father of Cecchino, 117

Salviati: Jacopo, 192

Sanazzaro, 76

Sangallo; Antonio da, 34, 47, 85, 116, 237, 238, 240-242, 259

Sangallo: Aristotele, assistant, 151

Sangallo: Ginliano da, 116, 141

San Gallo: Porta, 200

Sansovino: Andrea del Monte a, 27

Sansovino: Jacopo, 263

Santa Croce: Cardinal, 84

Santa Croce: Florence, 253, 260-262

Santarelli: sculptor, discovers a statue, 108

Santiquattro: Cardinal, 61, 52

Sarto: see Andrea

Savonarola: the master's affection for, 87; his sermons, 106

Scaffolding: designed by the master, 82; drawing of, 98; fall from, 218

Schongauer: see Martin Scipio, 84

Scourging of Christ: drawn for Sebastiano, 101, 265

Sebastiano del Piombo, 101: a walk in Rome, 121; letters from, 185, 187, 188, 205; portrait of Doria, 191; letter to, 197; prepares the wall for the Day of Judgment, 217, 231, 238, 253, note; his genial humour, 264; designs for, 265, 292, 314, 327

Setta Sangallesca, 237, 242-245

Settignano: the master nursed at, 6

Sibyls, 42, 45, 164, 166-170, 176-178; by Raphael, 177

Siege of Florence, 201, 205

Siena, 273, 292, 327

Sigismondo: a brother, 109

Signorelli: Luca, pictures in the Uffizi, 123; and Sistine Chapel, 166; slight influence of, 123, 124

Silvester: San, at Monte Cavallo, 271-327

Simone da Canossa: ancestor, 4, 6

Sin of Ham, 164, 170, 174, 179

Sistine Chapel, 41-49, 167-180, 210

Sixtus IV.: Pope, 41

Slaves: the two, marble statues, given to Strozzi, 89, 129, 116; 182, 216, 225, 227

Snow: a statue in, 15

Socrates, 87

Soderini: Cardinal, 39

Soderini: Pier, Gonfaloniere, 28, 36, [pg 346] 37, 96, 97; his criticism of the David, 118, 132

Solari: Cristoforo, Il Gobbo, 113

Spain, 200, 312, 313

Spanish Chapel, 99

Spedalingo: head of the hospital of S.M. Nuova, 157, 181, 182

Spina: Giovanni, to pay a provision to the master, 192; letter to, 194

Spirito: Santo, a crucifix for, 16

Spoleto, 256

Staccoli: Hieronimo, his letter to the Duke of Camerino, 217

Stairway to the Library, 250

Stanze: of the Vatican, 263, 270, 271, 292

Stefano: di Tomaso, 191, 192

Strozzi: Filippo, a sword hilt given to, 136

Strozzi: Giovan Battista, verses on the Night, 218

Strozzi: Lorenzo, 161

Strozzi Palace: the Hercules there until the siege, 105

Strozzi: Roberto, Slaves given to, 88, 89, 227

Stufa: Luigi della, a colossus to spoil the front of his palace, 198, 199

Sword-hilt: designed for Aldobrandini but given to Strozzi, 186

Tapestry: Raphael's cartoons for, 167

Tasio: wood-carver, 197

Taro: river, 193

Tè: Palazzo del, 263

Teridade: King, 294

Terribilità: the master's, 101, 117

Teyler Museum: Haarlem, 253

Tiber, 193

Tiberio Calcagni, 249; letter to Lionardo, 257, 258

Ticino: river, 193

Titian: his later work, 230, 290, 327

Tityos: drawing, 231

Tolemei: Claudio, 85

Tomaso: see Cavalieri

Tomaso: of Prato, attorney, 62

Tomb of Julius: first design, 30-33, 128, 129; description, 67; moneys received for, 69, 183, 186; the master's desire to complete it, 191; and trouble concerning it, 194, 205, 207

Tondi: see Madonna and Child

Topolino: Domenico Fancelli, letter to, 190; 264

Torrigiano: strikes the master, 91; his history, 92; a St. Francis by, 114

Tribolo: studied the Cartoon, 127

Trinità de' Monti, 253

Tromboncini: Bartolomeo, music to the madrigals, 207

Turk: The Grand, invites the master, 37, 78

Uffizi: Florence, the painted tondo, 29, 122; the dancing Faun, 175; Signorelli's pictures 123; drawings, 193

Urbino: Francesco, 255, 256, 273, 314

Urbino: Francesco Maria, Duke of, finds fault with the slow progress of the Tomb of Julius II., 55, 62-64; Paul III. arranges a new contract, 67, 69, 207; final contract, 225, 226, 290

Urbino: the master thinks of retiring to, 66

Urbino: the Palace of the Duke, 290

Valdarno, 264

Valori: Baccio, the Apollo presented to, 205, 207

Valentino: Duke, sends the god of Love to Mantua, 22, 23

Valerio Cioli, 262

Valerio de Vincença, 270

Valpaio: Benvenuto, 207

Valuation of works of art, 314

Vansitelli, 251

Varchi: Lectures and criticisms on the sonnets, 86; oration, 262

Vari: see Metello

Vasari: Giorgio, his famous book, 92, 97, 98; preserves the broken fragments of the arm of the David, 117; the story of the Gonfaloniere, 118; the St. Matthew, 120; the tondi, 121, 122; the Cartoon, 126; seventeen statues for the Tomb of Julius completed, 130; a list of assistants, 150, 151; his fable of the vault, 158, 163; the Apollo, 204; he completes the works at San Lorenzo, 209, 211; how Sebastiano prepared the wall, 217; the master's fall, 218; the Day of Judgment, 222; the Cappella Paolino, 232; he sees the master[pg 347] working at night, 235; a Pietà, 237; the cornice, 238; St. Peter's, 241; plots, 243; the bridge of Nanni, 245; the church for the Florentines in Rome, 249; the medal of Leone, 252; he holds another Buonarroto at the font, 255; a letter to, referring to the death of Urbino, 255, 256; the master's will, 269; he receives the master's body in Florence, 260; and describes the opening of the coffin in Santa Croce, 261; and the obsequies at San Lorenzo, 262; he designs the Tomb, 262; and enumerates the pupils, 263

Vauban: studies the fortifications at San Miniato, 203

Vault: of the Sistine Chapel, 41-49; works begun, 149; painting begins, 151; assistants dismissed, 156; mould on the fresco, 161; exposed to view, 163; finished, 165; a description, 167-179, 291

Vecchio: Palazzo, 116; cartoon for, 124; Bandinelli's Hercules and Cacus, 204

Venice: the master invited to, 78; flees to, 202; Sebastiano refers to, 206, 290, 327

Venusti: see Marcello

Victory: the, a marble statue in the Bargello, 129, 228

Vincenzo: see Borghini

Vinci: see Lionardo

Vincula: San Pietro in, Bramante's work needs support, 32; the Moses placed in, 33 Virgil, 76, 298, 303

Vitelli: Alessandro, 60

Viterbo: Vittoria Colonna visits, 85, 240; the Pietà by Sebastiano, 265

Vitruvius, 237

Vittoria: see Colonna

Volterra: Cardinal, letter from Soderini to, 132

Volterra: see Daniele

Windsor: drawings, 230

Works of art in the house of the master when he died, 259

Zanobi: Via San, 184

Zanobi: Mona, land near her estate, 135

Zapata: Diogo, 289

Zeuxis, 315

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