Table of Contents

* Introduction The Prodigy * Early Years in Florence and Bologna: 147596 * The First Roman Sojourn: 14961501 * The High Renaissance in Florence: 15015 * The Julius Tomb and Lesser Tragedies: 15058 The Sistine Chapel And Its Aftermath * The Sistine Ceiling: 150812 * The Julius Tomb Again and Other Failures: 151220 Medicean Florence With A Republican Interlude: 151934 * The Medici Tombs and the Victory * Michelangelos Medicean Architecture * Years of Turmoil: 152734 Rome: 153464 * The Last Judgement, a Pious Lady, and Tyrannicide: 153447 * Figural Works of the 1540s and 1550s * The Roman Architecture * Death and Transfiguration