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Florentine sculptor and architect, 1396 - 1472

"Cosimo made, following Michelozzo's advice and design, the palace of Cafaggiolo in the Mugello, giving it the form of a fortress with ditches around it, and he laid out farms, roads, gardens and fountains amid copses, fowling places and other highly esteemed adjuncts for villas.." II-43

Medici Villa, Cafaggiolo
Medici Villa, Cafaggiolo (16th century engraving by Utyens)
"And likewise, two miles distant from Florence, he restored the palace of Careggi, and to this palace Michelozzo brought the water for the fountain which can still be seen." II-43


Medici Villa, Careggi
"Then for Cosimo de' Medici's son, Giovanni, Michelozzo made at Fiesole another palace, sinking the foundation for the lower part into the hillside..down below he constructed vaults, cellars, stables, vat-stores and many other fine and commodious living spaces; and above, as well as chambers, halls and ordinary rooms, he made some for books and others for music." II-43
Villa Medici, Fiesole (much altered)
"On the death of Cosimo, his son Piero commissioned Michelozzo to build the marble chapel with the Crucifix in San Miniato del Monte." II-44


Chapel of the Crucifix, San Miniato del Monte
"Piero de Medici intended after these things to build the chapel of the Nunziata in the church of the Servites [and] he wished Michelozzo, now an old man, to give his opinion on the matter..." II-45


Church of SS Annunziata
"Filarete writes in the twenty-fifth book of his treatise that Franceso Sforza gave the magnificent Cosimo de ' Medici a very fine palace in Milan, and that the latter enlarged it to the designs of Michelozzo, making it 175 feet whereas before it had only been 168 feet." II-46

Drawing of the Medici Bank in Milan by Filarete (Antonio Averlino)
Portal from the Medici Bank in Milan
"As well as this he had many paintings done there...and these pictures were all from the hand of Vincenzio di Foppa, a contemporary painter from that region of no small reputation." II-47

All the decorations from the Medici bank have been lost except for this fresco fragment.
The Young Cicero Reading by Vincenzo Foppa
 
"He died at the age of sixty-eight and was entombed in San Marco in Florence. His portrait by Fra Angelico is in the sacristy of Santa Trinita in the figure of Nicodemus, shown as an old man with a cap on his head, who is taking Christ down from the cross."

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