点评:The role of Caprese village in Michelangelo's life is nothing, unlike the role – say – of Vinci in the life of another great Renaissance artist, Leonardo.
Michelangelo's father lived in Caprese for only six months: that is, the time expected for the tenure of a podestà of the Republic of Florence - as Michelangelo's father, Lodovico, was – perhaps both to avoid excessive familiarity with the governed, and to make staying in uncomfortable places acceptable to the Florentine upper classes.
In those six months, Michelangelo was born, and this in any case gives everlasting fame to this tiny village lost in the upper Tiber Valley.
The house, however, if it doesn't bear the imprint of the artist, gives a strong sense of what the life of a podestà sent to Caprese must have been like: it's rustic and simple, but solid. And the documents present in the museum shed significant light on Michelangelo's times. I remember for example the directives given to the podestà (as can be read in one of the preserved documents) mentioning among other things as a duty the defense of the weak (“orphans and widows”): which gives the sense of the presence of civilization in what must have been a difficult place and time to live in.
A feature that struck me about the house-museum is the presence of contemporary sculptures, collected on the upper floor of the annexed museum, and largely the result of a donation by Enrico Guidoni, an illustrious historian of urban planning and art.
They have nothing to do with Michelangelo, but can be considered a tribute to his art; and in any case they are valuable.
翻译:卡普雷塞村在米开朗基罗生活中的作用微不足道,就像芬奇在另一位伟大的文艺复兴艺术家达芬奇生活中的作用一样。
米开朗基罗的父亲在卡普雷塞只住了六个月:也就是佛罗伦萨共和国的首领任期的预期时间——米开朗基罗的父亲洛多维科就是其中之一——也许是为了避免与被统治者过于亲密,也为了让佛罗伦萨上流社会能够接受住在不舒服的地方。
在这六个月里,米开朗基罗出生了,无论如何,这让这个位于台伯河上游的小村庄永远声名鹊起。
然而,这所房子,即使没有艺术家的印记,也让人强烈地感受到被派往卡普雷塞的首领的生活是什么样的:它质朴而简单,但坚固。博物馆中的文件为米开朗基罗的时代提供了重要的启示。例如,我记得对 podestà 的指示(可以在一份保存下来的文件中读到)中提到了保护弱者(“孤儿和寡妇”)等义务:这让人感觉到文明的存在,而这肯定是一个艰难的地方和时代。
这座故居博物馆给我留下深刻印象的一个特点是当代雕塑的存在,它们收藏在附属博物馆的上层,主要是由著名的城市规划和艺术历史学家 Enrico Guidoni 捐赠的。
它们与米开朗基罗无关,但可以被视为对他的艺术的致敬;无论如何,它们都很有价值。