Abel, 44
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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: 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
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