Michelangelo

Where they went

2 related events

1. 1
   1350 – 1527Italian Renaissanceparticipant

   From the late 14th to the early 16th century, a humanist culture that revived the culture of ancient Greece and Rome and put humanity at the centre flourished in the cities of Italy, under the patronage of the Medici of Florence.

2. 2
   1506Discovery of the Laocoön Grouprelated figure

   On 14 January 1506 a marble group of Laocoön and his two sons in the coils of serpents was unearthed in a vineyard on the Esquiline Hill in Rome. Pope Julius II bought it and placed it in the Belvedere court of the Vatican; it is still in the Vatican Museums.

People who appear alongside

• Petrarch1304 – 1374

  Italian poet and scholar who sought to revive the classics of Greece and Rome — called the “father of humanism”

• Lorenzo de’ Medici1449 – 1492

  Head of the Medici family who ruled Florence (“the Magnificent”), patron of artists and scholars such as Botticelli and Michelangelo

• Leonardo da Vinci1452 – 1519

  Renaissance painter and scientist who painted The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa and filled notebooks on anatomy, machines and flight — the “universal man”

Themes this person appears in

• Late Medieval Europe and the Renaissance1077 – 1517

  From Canossa to the eve of the Reformation — papal power at its height and in decline, towns and parliaments, royal power growing through the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death, and the Renaissance and printing

• The Trojan War and the Odyssey1200 BC – 1876

  From the apple of discord to the Trojan Horse and the homecoming of Odysseus — the Greek myth in story order, alongside the real site of Troy, the making of the epics, the Laocoön group and Schliemann’s excavations