This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 Excerpt: ...in his seventy-sixth year.--" L'entrepris aussi de Michel l'Ange estoit hautaine et fort hardie, sentant bien sa main assuree, le quel commanca 1'an 1550, que j'estois a Rome, un Crucifiement oii il y avoit de dix a douze personnages, non pas moindres que le naturel, le tout d'une seule piece de marbre, qui etait un ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 Excerpt: ...in his seventy-sixth year.--" L'entrepris aussi de Michel l'Ange estoit hautaine et fort hardie, sentant bien sa main assuree, le quel commanca 1'an 1550, que j'estois a Rome, un Crucifiement oii il y avoit de dix a douze personnages, non pas moindres que le naturel, le tout d'une seule piece de marbre, qui etait un chapiteau de l'une de ces huict grandes colomnes du temple de la Paix de Vespasian, dont il s'en void encore une toute entiere et debout, mais la mort" The death of Antonio da S. Gallo, 1546, put it in the power of Paolo to create M. Angelo architect of S. Pietro, a trust of which he acquitted himself with a superiority which baffled all the opposition of venality and envy. He was probably, from Ictinus to our time, the first and the last of architects who refused salary and emolument, and consecrated his labours to divine love. Some of his successors, perhaps, might insinuate that he indemnified himself with being at the same time architect of the Campidoglio and the Farnese Palace. After the demise of Paolo, Cosmo I. Duke of Florence, by means of Vasari, earnestly intreated him to pass the remainder of his life at Florence; but the infirmities of age, and still more, inward grief for the subversion of the republic, with indignation at the established usurpation of the Medici, rendered these intreaties ineffectual. Equally unshaken by them and the vile rumour of his dotage, spread by the venal gang of Pirrho Ligorio, after crowning the Basilica with its cupola, he steered through calm and tempest on to his ninetieth year, the last of his life, 1564, and was buried in S. Apostoli; but, by the orders of Cosmo, secretly conveyed to Florence, where the pomp of academical exequies, the starched eloquence of Varchi, and a monument in Santa ...
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