The Buonarroti House
The Buonarroti House
museums
Via Ghibellina, 70, 50122 Firenze, Italia
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This museum is located in the house on Via Ghibellina which Michelangelo purchased in order to give his family a stately home that befitted the Buonarroti name’s prestige. The master’s great-grandsons, Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger and Filippo Buonarroti (to whom we owe the interesting archeological collection on the ground floor) decided to transform the house into a memorial dedicated to the great Tuscan artist. The “Galleria” was the work of many seventeenth century artists (including A. Gentileschi and G. da San Giovanni) who created a sort of “picture biography” of the sublime artist. Other seventeenth century pictorial cycles celebrating the family and famous Tuscans are in the adjacent rooms which also contain a series of Michelangelo’s original works: the Madonna of the Stairs (a splendid early piece inspired by Donatello) and the Centauromachia carved in the famous gardens of San Marco and immediately admired by Lorenzo the Magnificent). The wooden model for the façade of San Lorenzo and the torso of the River God for the New Sacristy in San Lorenzo date from a later period; in addition, there are more than a few autograph drawings and sketches by the master.
museums
Via Ghibellina, 70, 50122 Firenze, Italia
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This museum is located in the house on Via Ghibellina which Michelangelo purchased in order to give his family a stately home that befitted the Buonarroti name’s prestige. The master’s great-grandsons, Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger and Filippo Buonarroti (to whom we owe the interesting archeological collection on the ground floor) decided to transform the house into a memorial dedicated to the great Tuscan artist. The “Galleria” was the work of many seventeenth century artists (including A. Gentileschi and G. da San Giovanni) who created a sort of “picture biography” of the sublime artist. Other seventeenth century pictorial cycles celebrating the family and famous Tuscans are in the adjacent rooms which also contain a series of Michelangelo’s original works: the Madonna of the Stairs (a splendid early piece inspired by Donatello) and the Centauromachia carved in the famous gardens of San Marco and immediately admired by Lorenzo the Magnificent). The wooden model for the façade of San Lorenzo and the torso of the River God for the New Sacristy in San Lorenzo date from a later period; in addition, there are more than a few autograph drawings and sketches by the master.