Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Note to the Reader
- Michelangelo - The Artist, the Man and His Times
- PART I
- PART II
- 9 ROME, 1534–1542
- 10 ROME, 1542–1545
- 11 PAPAL ARCHITECT, ROME, 1546–1549
- 12 NEW FRIENDS, DIMINISHING FAMILY
- 13 ST. PETER'S
- 14 LATE WORK, LONG LIFE
- 15 FINAL YEARS
- 16 RETURN TO FLORENCE
- Notes
- Cast of Principal Characters
- Popes During Michelangelo's Life
- Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Works
- Index
- Plate section
16 - RETURN TO FLORENCE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Note to the Reader
- Michelangelo - The Artist, the Man and His Times
- PART I
- PART II
- 9 ROME, 1534–1542
- 10 ROME, 1542–1545
- 11 PAPAL ARCHITECT, ROME, 1546–1549
- 12 NEW FRIENDS, DIMINISHING FAMILY
- 13 ST. PETER'S
- 14 LATE WORK, LONG LIFE
- 15 FINAL YEARS
- 16 RETURN TO FLORENCE
- Notes
- Cast of Principal Characters
- Popes During Michelangelo's Life
- Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Works
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
On the morning after Michelangelo's death, a judge and notary arrived to make an inventory of the house and its contents. The first item noted was Michelangelo's bed, with its mattresses and coverlets, because beds often were the most valuable items of furniture. They also inventoried a large wood credenza packed with the master's clothes and linens: two fur coats, a lined mantle of fine black Florentine wool, another mantle of black wool, a black lamb's wool tunic, two black hats, undershirts, stockings, nineteen old shirts, five new ones, fifteen handkerchiefs, a pair of slippers, five hand towels, three face towels, seven white sheets, and eight tablecloths. In the workshop toward the back of the house, the notary recorded: (1) a statue of a Saint Peter begun, roughed out, but not finished; (2) another statue begun of Christ and another figure above him, attached together, roughed out but not finished (the Rondanini Pietà); (3) another statue, this one very small, of a Christ holding the Cross on his shoulders, not finished; and (4) a locked trunk.
A walnut box in Michelangelo's sitting room was found to contain ten drawings, including a window design for St. Peter's and a large cartoon of a Pietà with nine figures. Another sealed walnut box contained a huge sum of money: Roman gold scudi, Venetian gold ducats, and an assortment of Hungarian, German, and Spanish coins.
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- MichelangeloThe Artist, the Man and his Times, pp. 330 - 342Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009