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  1. Tommaso dei Cavalieri (c. 1512 to 1519 —1587) was an Italian nobleman, who was the object of the greatest expression of Michelangelo's love. Michelangelo was 57 years old when he met Cavalieri in 1532.

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  2. Tommaso dei Cavalieri. The Tityus drawing is one of several presentation drawings that Michelangelo gave to Tommaso dei Cavalieri. Cavalieri was a young Roman noble who became a very close friend to Michelangelo from 1532 up until Michelangelo's death in 1564.

  3. Drawings dedicated to Tommaso dei Cavalieri. In 1532, Michelangelo was 57 when he met the 17-year-old Tommaso dei Cavalieri, who came from a well-respected patrician family. The artist was immediately and utterly smitten by the youth's beauty, distinguished appearance, and intellect, and their meeting marked the beginning of a lifelong ...

  4. Shortly after taking up residence in Rome in late August or early September 1532, the 57-year-old Michelangelo met Tommaso de' Cavalieri for the first time. The earliest documentary evidence of their burgeoning relationship is provided by three letters written between December 1532 and January 1533. The giving of gifts was not unusual in ...

  5. Sep 13, 2022 · Abstract. Tommaso deCavalieri was a young man with an aristocratic background when he first met famous artist Michelangelo Buonarroti in Rome. Tommaso was known to be an incomparable physical beauty, with intelligence and elegant manners, as well as being a member of one of the most illustrious families of Rome—the Orsini.

  6. Apr 25, 2014 · In 1532–33, Michelangelo created a group of drawings as gifts for Tommaso deCavalieri, the young Roman nobleman he had met in the summer of 1532 and with whom he had fallen in love. The gift draw...

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  8. Michelangelo and Tommaso Cavalieri: The dual nature of love and desire. The Expositor: A Journal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities, 15, 37-51. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the English Department at Digital Commons @ Trinity.

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