Medici and Michaelangelo

• Florence 1501- Home of Italian Renaissance
• Michaelangelo was a workaholic
• Didn't take boots off for a long time so his skin came off with the boots
• Michaelangelo was adopted in the Medici family
• Exposed to a world of artistic achievement 
• Civil war broke out in Florence
• 1504- Michaelangelo exposed his work to the outside world
• Created a piece of Republican art http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_(Michelangelo)
• Pope Julius II was from powerful family
• DaVinci studied the human body
• Greatest artist of the time but Michaelangelo was going to take over his title.
• 1512- Soldiers were coming towards Florence
• Niccolo Machiavelli was consulted in by people of Florence 
• After Julius, cardinals elected Giovanni
• Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici was born in Florence, second son of Lorenzo the magnificent
• Poisoned by gold paint on his skin
• Giovanni Medici rose high than any of his ancestors
• Became Pope Leo X
• Michaelangelo was forced to paint the Papal Chapel in the Vatican and the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (above)
• Michaelangelo had crafted brilliance, arguably the greatest work of art of the Renaissance
• Machiavelli was exiled from Florence.
• Conspirators were going to kill Pope Leo, but he found out and had them killed instead.
• Pope Leo sold indulgences
• Luther was outraged and wrote a book about how the indulgences should be damned
• Leo was killed by a winter chill
• Pope Clement VII became the pope
• Sack of Rome was an attack by Charles V on Clement.
• Pope Clement stood poised to attack Florence
• Michaelangelo hid in the tombs that he built for the Medici.
• Clement called Catherine de Medici a pearl
• Clement capitalized on Catherine's survival and married her off to a French King
• Clement was about to die so he told Michaelangelo to create a fresco in the Vatican. Symbolized the Last Judgement
• Julio Medici died
• The corrupt of the popes was over