{"id":9209,"date":"2023-07-27T12:01:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T10:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bollettinodarte.cultura.gov.it\/?page_id=9209"},"modified":"2025-02-17T12:15:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T11:15:54","slug":"ingeborg-walter-michelangelo-e-gli-strozzi-lercole-il-bruto-e-un-cavallo-per-caterina-de-medici","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bollettinodarte.cultura.gov.it\/?page_id=9209","title":{"rendered":"Ingeborg Walter: Michelangelo e gli Strozzi. L\u2019\u2018Ercole\u2019, il \u2018Bruto\u2019 e un cavallo per Caterina de\u2019 Medici"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\"><strong>Estratto dal fascicolo 24 (ottobre-dicembre 2014)<\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<p>L\u2019articolo ricostruisce i rapporti di Michelangelo con la famiglia fiorentina degli Strozzi, da sempre oppositori dei Medici. Nel loro palazzo trovarono lavoro i fratelli minori di Michelangelo, il quale per sdebitarsi don\u00f2 loro la scultura dell\u2019<em>Ercole<\/em>, commissionata originariamente da Piero de\u2019 Medici\u00a0\u00a0(oggi perduta), di cui si ricostruiscono le successive vicende. Nei suoi anni romani, dopo il 1534, Michelangelo entr\u00f2 di nuovo in contatto con gli Strozzi e i loro amici, esiliati da Firenze dopo l\u2019ascesa del duca Cosimo I. Fu nell\u2019ambito di questa cerchia, animata da un fervido repubblicanesimo, che nacque l\u2019idea del busto di\u00a0<em>Bruto\u00a0<\/em>scolpito da Michelangelo, per solennizzare il \u201ctirannicidio\u201d del primo duca di Firenze, Alessandro de\u2019 Medici. Negli ultimi anni di vita dell\u2019artista, gli Strozzi fecero da tramite tra Michelangelo e la regina di Francia, Caterina de\u2019 Medici, per fare una statua di bronzo del defunto re Enrico II, suo primo marito, mai ultimata a causa della sopraggiunta morte dello scultore.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><strong>Michelangelo and the Strozzi: The \u2018Hercules\u2019, the \u2018Brutus\u2019, and a Horse for Catherine de\u2019 Medici<\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">The article reconstructs the relations between Michelangelo and the Florentine Strozzi family, perpetual antagonists of the Medici. The younger brothers of Michelangelo found employment in their palace and to repay them, the artist presented them with the sculpture of the\u00a0<em>Hercules<\/em>. The later provenance of this work, originally commissioned by Piero de\u2019 Medici (today lost), is here reconstructed. During his years in Rome after 1534, Michelangelo was again in contact with the Strozzi and their cohort, who were exiled from Florence after the ascent to power of Cosimo I. It was in the ambit of this circle, stirred by fervid republicanism, that the idea for the bust of\u00a0<em>Brutus\u00a0<\/em>sculpted by Michelangelo came into being, to solemnize the \u201ctyrannicide\u201d of the first duke of Florence, Alessandro de\u2019 Medici. In the final years of the artist\u2019s life, the Strozzi acted as liaisons between Michelangelo and the queen of France, Catherine de\u2019 Medici, for her commission of a bronze equestrian statue of the deceased king Henry II, her first husband, a work never completed owing to the artist\u2019s death.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estratto dal fascicolo 24 (ottobre-dicembre 2014) L\u2019articolo ricostruisce i rapporti di Michelangelo con la famiglia fiorentina degli Strozzi, da sempre oppositori dei Medici.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9209","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bollettinodarte.cultura.gov.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bollettinodarte.cultura.gov.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bollettinodarte.cultura.gov.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bollettinodarte.cultura.gov.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bollettinodarte.cultura.gov.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9209"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bollettinodarte.cultura.gov.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13670,"href":"https:\/\/bollettinodarte.cultura.gov.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9209\/revisions\/13670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bollettinodarte.cultura.gov.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bollettinodarte.cultura.gov.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bollettinodarte.cultura.gov.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}