Title

Letter from Michelangelo Buonarroti to his father, June 1508.Artist: Michelangelo Buonarroti

Caption

Letter from Michelangelo Buonarroti to his father, June 1508. Letter written from Rome, in Italian, from Michelangelo to his father, Lodovico di Leonardo di Buonarotti di Simoni, at Florence, contradicting a rumour of his death, complaining that he has received no money from the Pope for thirteen months, and referring to a suit for dower of Monna Cassandra, widow of Francesco Buonarroti, his aunt. From the third series of Facsimiles of royal, historical, literary and other autographs in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum: Series I-V, (London, 1899).
The Print Collector collection

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C17_390

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (3,0Mb) / 12,6in x 15,4in / 3785 x 4616 (300dpi)

Keywords

Italy Italian family religious father arts country religion money finance fatherhood art letter color colour death Christianity artist Renaissance location Catholic Catholicism century Roman Catholic handwriting concept correspondence dad signature manuscript rumour facsimile Pope wages Roman Catholicism 16th century sixteenth century The Print Collector Pope photograph Michelangelo Buonarroti Simoni Michelangelo Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni Pope Julius II Giuliano della Rovere della Rovere Giuliano Rovere Giuliano della Pope Jules II Julius II Lodovico di Leonardo di Buonarotti di Simoni Lodovico di Leonardo di Buonarotti di Buonarotti di Simoni Lodovico di Leonardo di Simoni Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Buonarroti Michelangelo Lodovico di Leonardo di Buonarotti di Simoni Pope Julius II photograph