![]() ![]() Finding its only full manifestation in the narratives of Vasari and Condivi, this tomb was the site of Michelangelo's first engagement with the making of architecture. The formal, temporal, and constructional intertwinings of this project are plumbed to create the foundation of this text. In early 1505, at twenty-nine years of age, Michelangelo began work on a massive tomb for Pope Julius II.Julius II - The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia.The tomb of Julius II now resides in theĬhurch where a young Giuliano della Rovere first became Cardinalin San Pietro in Vincoli, on the hills above the Colosseum. Peter's Basilica finished, nor was he laid to rest there. Julius, who himself laid the cornerstone, had wished to be buried there, and hadĮven commissioned an imposing tomb from Michelangelo. Impressive new basilica in place of old St. And, it was Julius who hired Bramante to construct an Painted rooms from Raphael (now known as Stanze di Raffaello, in the Vatican). Julius, who commissioned four exquisitely It was Julius who hired, some would sayīullied, Michelangelo, a reluctant sculptor, to repaint the ceiling in the Sistine Chapel. Yet perhaps his most lasting legacy was as a patron of the arts. He issued a bull against simony at papal elections, made various monastic reforms, founded a school forĮcclesiastical chant, and convened the Fifth Lateran Council, for the eradication of corruption and schisms from the church and the Marignano (1515) reestablished French rule in Lombardy.Īlthough Julius ran the Pontifical States first and foremost as a Prince would, he never neglected his dutiesĪs a leader of the church. The Holy League dissolved, and the French victory at Whose health had been failing for some time, died peacefully on February 21, 1513. The Swiss won over the French in Novarra (1513), but it was a short-lived victory. Swiss Cantons, and the Holy Roman Empire. Holy League (1510-11), which included the Venice, Spain, England, the Next, Julius set his sights for freeing the whole of Italy from the French. Of Venice lost the battle of Agnadello in May 1509, and had to make concessions to the Pope, including the return of Rimini and Faenza. League of Cambrai to get military support against Venice. Territories in Romagna, and also Perugia and Bologna, but in 1509, had to eventually join the He was able to restore to the Papal States most of the He directed hisĪttention to extending the Papal States, and went to war with powerful Venice. Julius, who was of warlike bent, first proceeded to extend the papacy's temporal power. Preferment, and was elected in October 1503 as Julius II. He bribed the cardinals both with money and with promises of This time, Giuliano della Rovere intended finally to be Pope. Fearful of his safety, Giuliano stayed away from Rome during his papacy, mostly in France and Northern Italy, until Alexander'sĪs his successor, the cardinals elected Pius III who, already sick and feeble, died only 26 days after hisĪscendancy. In 1492, Giuliano aspired to become Pope, but the cardinals resented him for the power he had held, and chose instead Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia.īorgia, who ascended to the papacy as Alexander VI, was a personal enemy to Of weak character, and gravely indebted to Cardinal della Rovere, was but a puppet to him for the next eight years. Thereafter, he received many benefices and held several sees, from which he collected a sizeable income.Īfter the death of Sixtus IV in 1484, Giuliano, who had little chance of becoming Pope himself, had a hand inīribing electors to elevate a Cardinal Cibo to the papacy as Innocent VIII. In December, 1471, he was created Cardinal Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome. In 1471, he received many posts and preferments. After his uncle's election to the papacy as Pope Sixtus IV Son of a noble but poor family, he was tutored by his uncle, Francesco della Rovere, Peter's Basilica.īorn Giuliano della Rovere, in 1443, in Liguria, Italy. The warrior pope who commissioned Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Raphael to paint the Stanze di Raffaello in the Vatican, and Bramante to begin the new St.
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