Michelangelo e gli Strozzi. L''Ercole', il 'Bruto' e un cavallo per Caterina de' Medici

• Autores: Ingeborg Walter
• Localización: Bollettino d'arte, ISSN 0391-9854, Vol. 99, Nº. 24, 2014, págs. 85-98
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • Michelangelo and the Strozzi: the 'Hercules', the 'Brutus', and a horse for Catherine de' Medici.

    The article reconstrucs the relations between Michelangelo and the Florentine Strozzi family, perpetual antagonists of the Medici. The younger brothers of Michelangelo found employment in their palace and to repay them, the artist presented them with the sculpture of the "Hercules". The later provenance of this work, originally commissioned by Piero de' Medici (today lost), is here reconstructed. During his years in Rome after 1534, Michelangelo was again in contact with the Strozzi and their cohort, who were exilied from Florence after the ascent to power of Cosimo I. It was in the ambit of this circle, stirred by fervid republicanism, that the idea for the bust of "Brutus" sculpted by Michelangelo came into being, to solemnize the "tyrannicide" of the first duke of Florence, Alessandro de' Medici. In the final years of the artist's life, the Strozzi acted as liaisons between Michelangelo and the queen of France, Catherine de Medici, for her commission of a bronze equestrian statue of the deceased king Henry II, her first housband, a work never completed owing to the artist's death.