Tuesday, September 6, 2016

PALACE OF THE HOLY APOSTLES

PALAZZO DEI SS. APOSTOLI

1478/80 Giuliano Giamberti aka Giuliano da Sangallo (1445/1516) for Cardinal Giuliano Della Rovere who later became Pope Julius II (1503/13)
The first dates back to the end of the fifteenth century
The second to the years 1503/12:
Fine marble relief inserted in the wall “Annunciation to the Shepherds, Nativity and Lavender of Christ” by an anonymous sculptor of the fifteenth century
“Fountain” by Domenico Fontana (1543/1607)
“Cenotaph of Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475/1564 )” who had his first tomb in the adjacent Basilica of the Holy Apostles
The recumbent figure is, in fact, maybe the philosopher Ferdinando Eustachio who died in 1594
On February 18, 1564 the funeral of Michelangelo Buonarroti took place in the Basilica of the Holy Apostles. Eighteen days after the funeral, his nephew Leonardo stole the body and carried it in a cart covered with cloths to Florence, where it was buried in the church of Santa Croce

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