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Tomb of Michelangelo / Designed by Giorgio Vasari

The Basilica di Santa Croce (Basilica of the Holy Cross) is the principal Franciscan church in Florence, Italy, and a minor basilica of the Roman Catholic Church.
The Basilica became popular with Florentines as a place of worship and patronage and it became customary for greatly honoured Florentines to be buried or commemorated there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Croce,_Florence#Funerary_monuments

He is surrounded by three allegorical statues representing…Painting (by Giovan Battista Lorenzi), Sculpture (by Valerio Cioli) and Architecture (by Giovan Battista Lorenzi) all of three which are shown in mourning.
https://www.visitflorence.com/florence-churches/santa-croce.html

Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer~ https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2017/michelangelo/exhibition-object-highlights

The Sonnets of Michelangelo~ https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-sonnets-of-michelangelo-1904-edition/

Previous February 18 posts:

February 18~ African-American visual artists

Louis Comfort Tiffany: Born February 18, 1848

Yoko Ono: Born February 18, 1933

Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/18~

Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2) by Marcel Duchamp

1912 / Oil on canvas / 57 7/8”x35 1/8” / Philadelphia Museum of Art

“The Armory Show took place from February 17 to March 15, 1913 at the 69th Regiment Armory on Lexington Avenue and 25th Street, and in just less than a month it changed the way Americans thought about modern art. It has been called the most important exhibition ever held in the United States.“ https://www.tronviggroup.com/the-armory-show-at-100-website/

~ 1913 Armory Show: The Story in Primary Sources
~ List of women artists in the Armory Show
~ Armory Show 1913 Catalog

Previous February 17 posts:

February 17~ African-American visual artists

February 17~

Madama Butterfly: First Performance February 17, 1904

Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/17~

The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone by Thomas Moran

Previous February 26 posts:

Postcard showing a curve in the Hudson & Manhattan Company Railroad Tunnel

Previous February 25 posts:

Funerary Monument of Pope Gregory XIII by Camillo Rusconi

Previous February 24 posts:

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado Sets Out to the North by Frederic Remington

Previous February 23 posts:

Eva Mudocci (After Munch) by Andy Warhol

Previous February 22 posts:

Scene from The Life of Thomas Becket / Unknown artist / Originally in Trinity Chapel, Canterbury Cathedral

Previous February 21 posts:

Portrait of Gioacchino Rossini by Francesco Hayez, after a photograph by Étienne Carjat

Previous February 20 posts:

Tintype of a woman / Unidentified photographer

Previous February 19 posts:

Tomb of Michelangelo / Designed by Giorgio Vasari

Previous February 18 posts:

Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2) by Marcel Duchamp

Postcard showing a curve in the Hudson & Manhattan Company
Railroad Tunnel

Scene from The Life of Thomas Becket / Unknown artist /
Originally in Trinity Chapel, Canterbury Cathedral