Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 09 (of 10): Michelagnolo to the FlemingsVasari, Giorgio
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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 09 (of 10): Michelagnolo to the Flemings
Vasari, Giorgio
Art, Italian; Artists -- Italy -- Biography
Many and various were the discussions that arose on this subject, on
the ground that such a work as that façade should have been
distributed among several persons, and in the matter of the
architecture many craftsmen flocked to Rome to see the Pope, and made
designs; Baccio d'Agnolo, Antonio da San Gallo, Andrea Sansovino and
Jacopo Sansovino, and the gracious Raffaello da Urbino, who was
afterwards summoned to Florence for that purpose at the time of the
Pope's visit. Thereupon Michelagnolo resolved to make a model and not
to accept anyone beyond himself as his guide or superior in the
architecture of such a work; but this refusal of assistance was the
reason that neither he nor any other executed the work, and that those
masters returned in despair to their customary pursuits. Michelagnolo,
going to Carrara, had an order authorizing that a thousand crowns
should be paid to him by Jacopo Salviati; but on his arrival Jacopo
was shut up in his room on business with some citizens, and
Michelagnolo, refusing to wait for an audience, departed without
saying a word and went straightway to Carrara. Jacopo heard of
Michelagnolo's arrival, and, not finding him in Florence, sent him a
thousand crowns to Carrara. The messenger demanded that Michelagnolo
should write him a receipt, to which he answered that the money was
for the expenses of the Pope and not for his own interest, and that
the messenger might take it back, but that he was not accustomed to
write out quittances or receipts for others; whereupon the other
returned in alarm to Jacopo without a receipt.
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