Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 02 (of 10): Berna to Michelozzo MichelozziVasari, Giorgio
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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 02 (of 10): Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi
Vasari, Giorgio
Art, Italian; Artists -- Italy -- Biography
mentioned, it was constructed in such a manner that, although it stands
on that hill, it has never moved a hair's breadth. This palace finished,
he built above it, almost on the summit of the hill, the Church and
Convent of the Friars of S. Girolamo, at the expense of the same man.
The same Michelozzo made the design and model which Cosimo sent to
Jerusalem for the hospice that he caused to be erected there, for the
pilgrims who visit the Sepulchre of Christ. He also sent the design for
six windows in the facade of S. Pietro in Rome, which were made there
afterwards with the arms of Cosimo de' Medici; but three of them were
removed in our own day and replaced by Pope Paul III with others bearing
the arms of the house of Farnese. After this, hearing that there was a
lack of water at S. Maria degli Angeli in Assisi, to the very great
discomfort of the people who go there every year on August 1 to receive
Absolution, Cosimo sent thither Michelozzo, who brought the water of a
spring, which rose half-way up the brow of the hill, to the fountain,
which he covered with a very rich and lovely loggia resting on some
columns made of separate pieces and bearing the arms of Cosimo. Within
the convent, also at the commission of Cosimo, he made many useful
improvements for the friars; and these the magnificent Lorenzo de'
Medici afterwards renewed with more adornment and at greater expense,
besides presenting to that Madonna the image of her in wax which is
still to be seen there. Cosimo also caused the road that leads from the
said Madonna degli Angeli to the city to be paved with bricks; nor did
Michelozzo take his leave of those parts before he had made the design
for the old Citadel of Perugia. Having finally returned to Florence, he
built a house on the Canto de' Tornaquinci for Giovanni Tornabuoni,
similar in almost every way to the palace that he had made for Cosimo,
save that the facade is not in rustic-work and has no cornices above,
but is quite plain.
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