Casa Buonarroti

Casa Buonarroti
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LocationVia Ghibellina 70, Florence, Italy
Websitewww.casabuonarroti.it

Casa Buonarroti is a museum in Florence, Italy that is situated on property owned by the sculptor Michelangelo that he left to his nephew, Leonardo Buonarroti. The complex of buildings was converted into a museum dedicated to the artist by his great nephew, Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger. Its collections include two of Michelangelo's earliest marble sculptures, the Madonna of the Stairs and the Battle of the Centaurs. A ten-thousand book library [1] includes the family archive and some of Michelangelo's letters and drawings.[2] The Galleria is decorated with paintings commissioned by Buonarroti the Younger and was created by Artemisia Gentileschi[3] and other early seventeenth-century Italian artists.[4]

  1. ^ "Casa Buonarroti – Library". Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
  2. ^ Symonds (1893). The life of Michelangelo Buonarroti, based on studies in the archives of the Buonarroti family at Florence, in two volumes (1, 2). New York: Scribner.
  3. ^ Spike, John T. (1991). "Artemisia Gentileschi. Florence, Casa Buonarroti". The Burlington Magazine. 133 (1063): 732–734. ISSN 0007-6287. JSTOR 884954.
  4. ^ "Galleria". Casa Buonarroti. Retrieved 20 July 2019.