MichelangeloItalian, 1475–1564Marcus Iunius Brutus
May one see it?
Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel
Skulpturensammlung Dresden
Dresden, Germany
The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum's own collection data
Particulars
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Skulpturensammlung Dresden: the museum's own open data · fetched 7 days ago
- Image: Skulpturensammlung Dresden — In Copyright
Meanwhile, in the life of Michelangelo
The whole life1534–1564 · Workplace
Rome
c. 1537
Friendship with Vittoria Colonna
In Rome Michelangelo met the poet Vittoria Colonna, a noble widow, then forty-seven. They shared a sincere platonic love, exchanging sonnets on spiritual matters, and in the 1530s she was his spiritual guide.
1542
Cecchino dei Bracci and 48 epitaphs
Michelangelo met Cecchino dei Bracci, who died only a year later, inspiring him to write 48 funeral epigrams.
late 1542
A letter on the envy of Bramante and Raphael
In a letter Michelangelo blamed the tensions between himself and Julius II on the envy of Bramante and Raphael, saying of the latter: “all he had in art, he got from me”.
