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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.
May 4, 2018 · Between 1532 and 1533, the 57-year-old Michelangelo gave six highly finished drawings on mythological and allegorical subjects to the art-loving young Roman nobleman Tommaso de’ Cavalieri, who was the great love of the painter-sculptor-architect’s long and often solitary life.
Jul 26, 2019 · Tommaso de’Cavalieri is best known as the young man who attracted Michelangelo’s passionate attention in the early 1530s. The recipient of drawings, poems, and letters from the artist, Cavalieri was also a high ranking member of Roman society.
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.
Michelangelo’s expression of the dual nature of love reveals a conflict between erotic and Platonic desire during the Cavalieri period. An understanding of Michelangelo and Tommaso’s relationship, and of the context for acceptable Platonic love and forbidden sexual desire between men or boys, is essential for understanding these poems and ...
