Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling

by Ross King

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  Index

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  a secco see fresco painting

  Aeneas 161, 162, 167

  Agnadello, battle of (1509) 128, 129

  Agnolo di Donnino 65, 67–8, 75, 95

  Agony and the Ecstasy, The (film) 296

  Agrippa, Emperor 161

  Agrippa von Nettesheim, Cornelius: On the Nobility and Superiority of the Female Sex 181–2

  Alberti, Leon Battista:

  De pictura (On Painting) 144, 145, 146, 280

  ‘veil’ (perspective device) 241, 260

  Albertini, Francesco 165

  Alexander the Great 191, 321n

  Alexander VI, Pope (Rodrigo Borgia):

  and Charles VIII 87, 129

  children 28, 29

  death 28, 197

  decadence as Pope 28, 87, 159

  rivalry with Julius II 27, 36, 90, 136

  and Savonarola 88, 136

  Vatican Apartments 90, 91, 105, 132, 160, 223

  Alidosi, Cardinal Francesco:

  friendship with Julius II 36, 212–13

  as Legate of Bologna 212

  and Michelangelo 3, 36, 41, 42, 53, 56, 63, 198, 271

  murder 212

  Alviano, Bartolomeo d’ 128

  Ancona 194

  Andrea Luigi (L’Ingegno) 94

  Angelico, Fra 67

  Anghiari, battle of (1440) 242; see also Leonardo da Vinci

  Antiochus Epiphanes 190

  Apocrypha, the 190, 249

  Apollo Belvedere 152

  Aquinas, Thomas 135, 160

  Aretino, Pietro 106

  Ariosto, Lodovico:

  as ambassador of Alfonso d’Este 193, 257, 261, 262

  depicted by Raphael 210

  Or
lando furioso 167, 193, 194, 210, 243–4, 261, 262

  arriccio see fresco painting

  Arrotino (‘Knife Grinder’) 149

  Aspertini, Amico 47

  Assisi: churches of San Francesco 44

  astrology 41, 159, 197

  Attila the Hun 128

  Augustine, St 135, 160, 162

  Augustinian Hermits, Order of the 200

  Avernus, Lake 161–2, 165, 167

  azurite 62–3, 82, 100, 121

  Baglioni, Gianpaolo 29, 33

  Baglioni, the 94

  Baldini, Baldino 253

  Bandinelli, Baccio 152

  Barbarigo, Agostino, Doge of Venice 199

  Barna da Siena 49

  Basso, Piero 74–5, 76

  Bayezid II, Sultan 31

  Bazzi, Giovanni Antonio (Sodoma) 92, 107, 108, 171, 209, 210

  Apollo and Marsyas 111–13, 113, 114

  Beck, James 295

  Bellini, Giovanni: The Feast of Cod 259

  Benivieni, Girolamo 184

  Bentivoglio, Giovanni 29, 34

  Bentivogli, the 39, 40, 89, 167, 178, 197, 212, 232, 234, 256

  Bernard of Clairvaux 248

  Bernardino d’Antonio 40

  Bibbiena, Cardinal Bernardo Dovizi da 238, 287

  Bibbiena, Maria da 287, 288

  Biblia pauperum (‘Poor Man’s Bible’) 190

  Bichiellini, Niccolò 147

  Blake, William 292

  Boccaccio, Giovanni 86, 98, 210, 226

  Decameron 250

  Bologna:

  and the French 197–8, 211, 212, 237–8

  Julius’s campaigns against 29, 32, 34, 192, 231, 256

  Julius’s entrances 34, 164 (1506), 194 (1510)

  Julius’s illness in 196–200, 204–5

  Michelangelo’s audiences with the Pope 35, 36–7, 196, 198, 199, 205

  Michelangelo’s statue of Julius 34–5, 37, 39–41, 42, 43, 63, 184, 185, 232, 246

  under siege (1512) 233, 237–8

  see also Bentivogli, the; Quercia, Jacopo della

  Bolsena, miracle at 254

  Bonaventure, St 225

  Borgia, Cesare 29, 110n, 130n, 204, 249–50, 268

  Borgia, Lucrezia 28, 90, 167, 260

  Borgia, Rodrigo see Alexander VI, Pope

  Bosch, Hieronymus: Carden of Earthly Delights 249

  Botticelli, Sandro 18, 86, 115