The golden days of the renaissance in Rome, from the pontificate of Julius II to that of Paul III (1906)
Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929 · Boston; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 200
traditional, partly his-torical. Tradition, accepted by Piazza, Cecconi, and other localchroniclers, says that Michelangelo, having purposely in-flicted a mortal wound on the model who posed for him asChrist on the cross, in order to study the play of themuscles of a dying man, and having thereby… … * WT --- «»»^ ^^ 1 1 l. ^K ■^ The house of Domenico da Capranica, one of the few surviving- specimensof the Renaissance domestic architecture in Rome by striking the rock with his chisel and creating figures ofmen and beasts; and also by designing and erecting abeautiful church to a repentant…
