Michelangelo was commissioned to produce frescoes for the Sistine Chapel and he began The Last Judgement in 1537. In 1547 Michelangelo was appointed architect of St. Peter's to which he devoted himself until his death.
Michelangelo developed relationships with Tommaso de' Cavalieri and Vittoria Colonna. Tommaso de' Cavalieri was 23 when the two men met in 1532. Michelangelo's corresponded with Vittoria Colonna in chaste and intellectual tones.
The homoeroticism of Michelangelo's poetry was obscured when his grand nephew, Michelangelo the Younger, published an edition of the poetry in 1623 with the gender of pronouns changed. John Addington Symonds reclaimed Michelangelo's homoeroticism by translating his sonnets into English and writing a two-volume biography and publishing it in 1893.
In his long and productive life he created paintings and sculptures unsurpassed both in physical size and strength and in emotional intensity. The Pietà now at St. Peter's Church in Rome; the David, in Florence; and most of all, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel are the most celebrated artworks ever created.
He was known to be a lover of young boy. Boys thought to have been Michelangelo's lovers were: Cecchino dei Bracci, Gherardo Perini, Tommaso Cavalieri and Febo di Poggio, a young male prostitute. Michelangelo was in his late sixties when he met fifteen-year-old Bracci. Bracci died in 1544, at the age of sixteen. Michelangelo mourning the boys passing wrote about fifty poems, and designed the boys's tomb.
The great love of Michelangelo's life was Tommaso Cavalieri, for whom he wrote sonnets and painted life-size portraits. Cavalieri was with him when he died at the age of 89.
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