Michelangelo Letter

Lettera di Michelangelo

Buonarroti, Michelangelo

1545-01-25/26

Autograph signed and undated letter from Michelangelo Buonaroti to the bank of Salvestro da Montaguto, asking to pay his assistant, Raffaello da Montelupo, for his work on sculpture on the tomb of Pope Julius II for San Pietro in Vincoli.

Florence

Manuscript document

Correspondence
Prose

1 leaf: 15 x 22 cm

Paper

Italic

Arts
Autographs
Culture
Finance

Buonarroti family
Sculpture, Renaissance
Mausoleo di Giulio II (Rome, Italy)
Art, Renaissance--Italy
Correspondence

Text of 8 lines on p. 1, written in italic in brown ink, signed "Vostro Michelagniolo Buonarroti Roma"; folded horizontally and vertically.

The Newberry Library

Newberry VAULT Case Wing MS ZW 535 .B943

Formerly in the collection of Alfred Morrison. Bookplates: J D [i.e. Jean Davray]
Louis H. Silver. In a case made by P.L. Martin.