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Madonna of the Stairs. The Madonna of the Stairs (or Madonna of the Steps) is a relief sculpture by Michelangelo in the Casa Buonarroti, Florence. It was sculpted around 1490, when Michelangelo was about fifteen. This and the Battle of the Centaurs were Michelangelo's first two sculptures. The first reference to the Madonna of the Stairs as a ...
Dmitri Shostakovich in 1974, around the period he composed the Suite on Verses by Michelangelo Buonarotti (photograph by Yuri Shcherbinin). The Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti (Сюита на слова Микеланджело Буонарроти, Op.145, 1974) is a cycle of song settings by Dmitri Shostakovich of eleven poems by Michelangelo Buonarroti, translated into the ...
Florence ( / ˈflɒrəns / FLORR-ənss; Italian: Firenze [fiˈrɛntse] ⓘ) [a] is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 360,930 inhabitants in 2023, and 984,991 in its metropolitan area. [4] Florence was a centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest ...
Casa Buonarroti is a museum in Florence, Italy that is situated on property owned by the sculptor Michelangelo that he left to his nephew, Leonardo Buonarroti. The complex of buildings was converted into a museum dedicated to the artist by his great nephew, Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger. Its collections include two of Michelangelo's ...
Filippo Giuseppe Maria Ludovico Buonarroti, more usually referred to under the French version Philippe Buonarroti (11 November 1761 – 16 September 1837), was an Italian utopian socialist, writer, agitator, freemason, and conspirator; he was active in Corsica, France, and Geneva. His History of Babeuf’s Conspiracy of Equals (1828) became a ...
History book. Publication date. 1836. Observations on Maximilien Robespierre ( Observations sur Maximilien Robespierre) is a book about French revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre written and published in 1836 by Italian writer and conspirator Philippe Buonarroti.
Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger. Portrait by Cristofano Allori ( Casa Buonarroti, Florence) La tancia (1612) Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane (baptized 4 November 1568 – 11 January 1646) was a Florentine poet, librettist and man of letters, known as "the Younger" to distinguish him from his granduncle .
Buonarroti ( Buonarotti) is a surname, and may refer to. Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564), the Italian artist known as Michelangelo. Filippo Buonarroti (1661–1733), Florentine official and grandnephew of Michelangelo. John Buonarotti Papworth (1775–1847), British prolific architect and artist.