Michael Angelo's Tomb
by Alan Lakin
Title
Michael Angelo's Tomb
Artist
Alan Lakin
Medium
Photograph
Description
Michael Angelo's final resting place in the Basilica di Santa Croce (Basilica of the Holy Cross) in Florence, Italy. The statues were carved by three different sculptors. The Basilica became popular with Florentines as a place of worship and patronage and it became customary for greatly honoured Florentines to be buried or commemorated there. Some were in chapels "owned" by wealthy families such as the Bardi and Peruzzi. As time progressed, space was also granted to notable Italians from elsewhere. For 500 years monuments were erected in the church including those to:
Leon Battista Alberti (15th-century architect and artistic theorist)
Vittorio Alfieri (18th-century poet and dramatist)
Eugenio Barsanti (co-inventor of the internal combustion engine)
Lorenzo Bartolini (19th-century sculptor)
Julie Clary, wife of Joseph Bonaparte, and their daughter Charlotte Napoléone Bonaparte
Leonardo Bruni (15th-century chancellor of the Republic, scholar and historian)
Dante (buried in Ravenna)
Ugo Foscolo (19th-century poet)
Galileo Galilei
Giovanni Gentile (20th-century philosopher)
Lorenzo Ghiberti (artist and bronze-smith)
Niccolò Machiavelli by Innocenzo Spinazzi
Carlo Marsuppini (15th-century chancellor of the Republic of Florence)
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Raffaello Morghen (19th-century engraver)
Gioachino Rossini by Giuseppe Cassioli
Louise of Stolberg-Gedern (wife of Charles Edward Stuart, 'Bonnie Prince Charlie')
Guglielmo Marconi (buried in his birthplace at Sasso Marconi, near Bologna)
Enrico Fermi (nuclear physicist, buried in Chicago, Illinois)
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September 23rd, 2015
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