Chapter 6 Yili-3

"Leonardo was very handsome in face and gentle in manner. He was walking one day with a friend in the Via Ferencía; he wore a rosy coat that fell to his knees; his curly long hair was beautifully trimmed. Beside the Holy Trinity, a few bourgeois were talking, debating a verse by Dante. They called Leonardo and asked him to discern the meaning for them. At this moment Michelangelo Luo walked by. Leonardo said: "Michelangelo will explain the poem you are talking about." Michelangelo thought he was deliberately mocking him, and replied grimly: "Explain yourself, you This was molded of a bronze horse which alludes to Leonardo's unfinished statue of Archduke Francesco Sforza which will not be cast into a bronze horse and you are not ashamed to do so The one who stopped!'—he turned and went away. Leonardo stood, blushing. Michelangelo, still thinking that he was not satisfied, and full of thoughts of slandering him, cried: "And those The dastardly Milanese will believe you have done such a job!' ” an account of a contemporary.

Such were the two persons that the magistrate Soderini placed them on a common work: the painting adorning the meeting hall in the palace of the princes.This is a strange struggle between the two greatest forces of the Renaissance.In May 1504 Leonardo began his sketches for The Battle of Anghiari.This battle was a battle in which the people of Fei Lengcui defeated the people of Milan.The subject was deliberately to embarrass Leonardo, since he had so many friends and protectors in Milan.In August 1504, Michelangelo was commissioned to produce the "Battle of Cascina".Also known as "Battle of Pisa".The whole Emerald was divided into two factions for them. — but time equalizes all.Both works were wiped out.Michelangelo's drawing was painted on the wall in 1505, and it was destroyed in the riots when the Medici came back in 1512.The work is only glimpsed from a few scattered copies.As for Leonardo's one, Leonardo himself destroyed it.To perfect his technique he tried an ointment, but it did not last; the picture was discarded in his discouragement, and by 1550 it no longer existed.The works of Michelangelo in this era (1501-1505), there are two reliefs of "Madonna" and "Baby Jesus", which are now preserved in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in London and the Ferenc Bargello Museum;— - "The Madonna of Bruges", which was purchased by a Flemish merchant in 1506; - there is also the large water gel painting of "Holy Family" in the Uffizi Museum, which is the most thoughtful and beautiful of Michele made.His puritanical seriousness, his heroic tones, were the polar opposite of Leonardo's lazy, sensual art.

In March 1505, Michelangelo was summoned to Rome by Pope Julius II.Thus began the age of the hero in his career. Both are strong, great men, and when they're not clashing viciously, the pope and the artist are a natural fit.Big plans swirl in their minds.Julius II wanted to have a tomb built for him, which would be worthy of the city of ancient Rome.Michelangelo was terribly excited by this proud remembrance.He harbored a Babylonian plan to create a mountain-like building with more than forty statues on it.The pope was very excited, and sent him to the place of Carare, to chop all the necessary white stones in the stone factory.Michelangelo lived in the mountains for more than eight months.He was completely overwhelmed by a kind of frenzy. "One day when he was wandering in the mountains on horseback, he saw a mountain top with a commanding panorama: he suddenly wanted to carve it into a huge stone statue, so that navigators far away in the sea could see it... If he When he has time, he will, if he is allowed to do so," according to Condive.

In December 1505, when he returned to Rome, the large white stone he had chosen had also begun to arrive and was placed in St. Peter's Square, behind Santa Caterina, where Michelangelo lived. "The pile of stones was so high that the crowd was amazed and the pope was ecstatic." Michelangelo buried his head in his work.The pope often came to see him impatiently, and "talked to him as affectionately as a father and son."In order to facilitate communication, he had a pontoon bridge built between the corridor of the Vatican Palace and Michelangelo's apartment, so that he could visit him in secret at will.

But this advantage does not last long.The character of Julius II is as impermanent as that of Michelangelo.He is now enthusiastic about one project, now about a very different one.Another project seemed more enduring to him: he was to rebuild St. Peter's.It was Michelangelo's enemies, numerous and powerful, who incited him to this new enterprise.Chief among them was a man of Michelangelo's genius but a stronger will: Bramante, the Pope's architect and Raphael's friend. AA Bramante (Donato Bramante, 1444-1514), Italian Renaissance architect.There is no sympathy between two great Umbrians of strong intellect and a Ferenc of wild genius.But it was Bramante at least who was so determined to bring him down.As for Raphael, he was too close to Bramante to act in unison with him, but there is no basis for saying that Raphael personally opposed Michelangelo.Only Michelangelo affirms that he also joined the plot: "My quarrel with Pope Julius is all the result of the jealousy of Bramante and Raphael: they try to overwhelm me; The active man, for all he knows in art he has learned from me." (Letter from Michaelis to an untestable man, October 1542) no doubt because he had challenged them The reason.Michelangelo had no scruples to accuse Bramante of cheating in the project.Condivi was also suspicious because of his blind friendship with Michelangelo: "Bramante was forced to harm Michelangelo, first because of jealousy, and secondly because he was afraid of Michelangelo. Lo's judgment on him, he is a man who knows his faults. Everyone knows that Bramante is a lover of pleasure and extravagant. No matter how high his salary with the Pope is, he can't spend enough, so he tries to Fraud in engineering, use of inferior materials to build walls, insufficient in strength. This can be discerned in the building of St. Peter, which he presided over. . . . Shen." At that moment, Bramante decided to cut him off.

He made him fall out of favor with the Pope.He took advantage of the superstitions of Julius II, and said before him that according to the common sense, it was inauspicious to build a mausoleum during his lifetime.He managed to cool down the Pope's plans for Michelangelo, and took the opportunity to present his own.In the first month of 1506, Julius II decided to rebuild St. Peter's Temple.The matter of the mausoleum was put on hold, and Michelangelo was not only overwhelmed, but also in debt for the money he had spent on the work. "When the Pope changed his mind, and the freighters still brought the stones from Carrare, I had to pay for them myself. At the same time the stonecutters I hired from Emerald arrived in Rome; When arranging their lodgings and utensils in the house assigned to me, my money ran out and I was in great distress..." (quoted above from a letter dated October 1542) he complained bitterly.The Pope saw him no more; when he went to see him on a project, Julius II taught his horses to drive him out of the Vatican Palace.

Bishop Lu Kekui, who witnessed this scene, said to Ma Bian, "Don't you know him?" Luo went back and wrote to the Pope: "Holy Father, I was expelled from the palace this morning by your holy will. I inform you that starting today, if you have any servants, you can ask someone to find me in any area outside Rome. " He sent the letter, calling a stone merchant and a stonemason who lived in his house, and said to them, "Go find a Jew and sell him everything in my house, and then come to Ferencius."