Notes on Micheal angelo and Medici

• 1501
• Michael angelo sculpted a 13 foot marble block. He worked very hard and his life was all about art. It took him three years to finish the block
• He started to draw away from the Medici.
• When Florence came away from the Medici the Medici fled Florence while Michelangelo stayed. The cousin Medici, Giovanni and Guliano were trying to make it big in the church but they could not without Florence, where they could not return. They went throughout Italy trying to get the help of friends.
• When Michelangelo was finished his sculpture it was unveiled to Florence, it was first meant to go onto the Cathedral but they put it front of the town hall. The sculpture it was David but when placed in front of the government building it became a symbol of the city. He was upset that the Medici did not help Florence in the way he wanted.
• One of Michelangelo's competitors was da Vinci who even went to such great lengths as dissecting human bodies.
• Niccolo Machievelli had to protect Florence from the Medici and he formed an army against them. The Medici ended up gaining control of the city but the people still did not like them. Giovanni was a cardinal and when the pope died he became Pope Leo the tenth. When Giovanni became Pope, Florence forgot everything and took the Medici in with open hands and appointed Gulianno archbishop and eventually cardinal.
• Michelangelo was already commisioned to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel by the late pope and he thought he would fail.
• Michelangelo worked with Fresco which was very hard to work with because it had to be painted on quickly. The Medici who were now in charge offered Michelangelo to bring tombs for their fathers. Machievelli was eventually exiled from Florence. Machievelli wrote a book called the Prince and it seperated politics from thinking he believed he would be able to get on the good side of the Medici and it failed.
• 1516, some cardinals conspired to assassinate the pope he had been warned previously and had them killed after a failed attempt. The Medici ended up being more careful about who they let in power.
• Pope Leo eventually owed a lot of money and his cousin was pawning away the pope's jewel. Pope Leo started to sell papers that said if a person had done wrong they had the Church on their side. These were called indulgences. Martin Luther became angry at the church for this. He wrote a "manifesto" for change and had many versions of it printed and circulated. Luther was trying to reform the Church but things lost control. Pope Leo saw this and condemned Luther to hell. Luther started the protestant reformation and the Church split in two. When Leo the tenth died his cousin Julio had to deal with the problem of protestant reform and he became Pope. The protestant reformation brought fighting into Rome. The Pope fled to Florenc but the rioters found out already and sacked Florence including break the David that michelangelo had created. Michelangelo hid in a church.
• Catherine de Medici was in line if Clement died. She was 7 years old and the people threatened to throw her into a soldier's brothel and he called of his troops so they could rescue her. Catherine was married of at 14 to the son of the French King. The religious wars soon affected France because of her. Pope Clement was eventually on his dying bed and he asked Michelangelo to make a fresco for him. Michelangelo painted the last judgement. He died in 1534 ending the corrupt reign of Medici popes.