Sublime

The French writer Stendhal, in his 1817 travelogue, Rome, Naples, and Florence, described

When Leonardo left Florence for Milan in 1482, Michelangelo was only seven years old. His father was a member of Florence’s minor nobility who subsisted on small public appointments, his mother had died, and he was living in the countryside with the family of a stonecutter. During the seventeen years that Leonardo was away in Milan, Michelangelo be

In 1482, the year he turned thirty, Leonardo da Vinci left Florence for Milan, where he would end up spending the next seventeen years. Traveling with him was his companion Atalante Migliorotti, now fifteen, the aspiring musician who learned from Leonardo how to play the lyre and became one of the many young men who floated in and out of his retinu

L’homosexualité n’est rare ni dans la communauté artistique florentine ni dans le cercle de Verrocchio. Ce dernier ne se mariera jamais, à l’instar de Botticelli, également accusé de sodomie. Donatello, Michel-Ange ou encore Benvenuto Cellini (condamné deux fois pour sodomie) sont également gays.

grosso. Adagio la testa tra il sedile e il finestrino, era la sua

The paintings and objects were not signed; they were not intended to be works of individual expression. Most were collaborative efforts, including many of the paintings commonly attributed to Verrocchio himself. The goal was to produce a constant flow of marketable art and artifacts rather than nurture creative geniuses yearning to find outlets for