Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) : its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries . ART (1500-1600) one single statue wholly by the hand of the great master,namely, the Moses (Fig. 58). The mutable, masterful, and disdainful conduct of the Popeso excited the somewhat irritable and proud artist that hesuddenly left Rome, and it was not till three threatening papalbriefs had been sent to the Florentine Signoria that he con-sented to reconcihation and join
Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) : its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries . ART (1500-1600) one single statue wholly by the hand of the great master,namely, the Moses (Fig. 58). The mutable, masterful, and disdainful conduct of the Popeso excited the somewhat irritable and proud artist that hesuddenly left Rome, and it was not till three threatening papalbriefs had been sent to the Florentine Signoria that he con-sented to reconcihation and joined the Pontiff at he made a bronze statue of Juhus which was erectedover the portal of S. Petronio, where it remained only fiveyears ; for in 1511, when the French under Trivulzio and thegallant young Gaston de Foix took Bologna, it was melteddown to make a cannon, derisively named La Giulia. Whenback in Rome the Pope—to whose imperious and capricioustemper we may for this once perhaps be grateful—orderedMichelangelo to abandon sculpture and cover the roof of theCappella Sistina with frescos. How this was accompUshedis told elsewhere. Some five months after this gigantic taskwas completed JuHus II died
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