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‎Raffaele Riario, Jacopo Galli, and Michelangelo?s Bacchus, 1471*1572‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2025 Hardback, Pages: 407 pages, Size:220 x 280 mm Illustrations:37 b/w, 206 col., 3 maps color Language:English *new. ISBN 9781915487117.‎

‎Summary On Michelangelo?s first day in Rome, in June 1496, Cardinal Raffaele Riario asked him if he could create ?something beautiful? in competition with the antique. The twenty-one-year old sculptor responded to this unique challenge with the statue of Bacchus now in the Bargello museum. This statue, as well as the Sleeping Cupid which first brought Michelangelo to Riario?s attention, have long been shrouded in mystery, and the Bacchus as well as its patron have long suffered from critical censure. Through a comprehensive analysis of overlooked and previously-unpublished sources, this study sheds new light on the Sleeping Cupid, the Bacchus, and a fascinating period in the history of Renaissance Rome when the careers of Riario, Galli, and Michelangelo were closely intertwined. It considers the rise of the Riario dynasty starting with the election of Pope Sixtus IV in 1471, Riario?s partnership with Jacopo Galli in the reconstruction of the palace now known as the Palazzo della Cancelleria, the attempted sale of Michelangelo?s Sleeping Cupid in Rome as an antiquity, Riario?s patronage of the Bacchus, and the Bacchus?s display in the house of the Galli up until its sale to the Medici in 1572. Taking a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, it offers a fundamental reassessment of Cardinal Riario?s career as a patron, of Jacopo Galli?s role as an intermediary for both Riario and Michelangelo, and of Michelangelo?s collaboration with Riario and Galli. TABLE OF CONTENTS Author?s Preface Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Rise of the Riario, 1471?1484 Chapter 3: Cardinal Riario, the Galli, and the Reconstruction of San Lorenzo in Damaso, 1484?1499 Chapter 4: Familiars, Humanists, and Preachers, 1480s?1490s Chapter 5: Artists, Antiquities, and a Vigna in Trastevere, 1480s?1490s Chapter 6: The Case of the Sleeping Cupid, 1496 Chapter 7: Raffaele Riario?s Bacchus, 1496?1497 Chapter 8: Jacopo Galli?s Bacchus, 1497?1505 Chapter 9: The Bacchus in the Houses of the Galli, 1505?1572 Epilogue Appendix I: English Translation and Latin Text of Bernardino Capella and Gaspare Manio de Clodiis, Eclogue and Panegyrics for Cardinal Riario Appendix II: Sources and Documents in the Original Language Bibliography Index‎