1 Beginning of the work on the chapel _The Madonna_ of the
of the Medici at S. Lorenzo. chapel of the Medici.

1521 At the end of the year serious illness
of Michelangelo. _The Victory._

1522 November 19. Election of Clement VII.

1524-1526 Work on the tomb of
the Medici and the
Laurentian library.

1527 May 6. Capture of Rome by the
Imperialists.

1529 April 6. Michelangelo is named _Leda._
Governatore Generale and Procuratore
of the fortifications of
Florence. Mission to inspect
the fortifications at Pisa, Livorno
and Ferrara.

1529 September 21. Flight to Venice.
Siege of Florence.

1529 November 20. Return to Florence.
Defense of San Miniato.

1530 August 12. Capitulation of Florence. _Apollo._
Proscriptions.

1531 June. Serious illness of Michelangelo. Work on the Medici
tombs.

1532 April 29. Fourth contract for the
monument of Julius II.

1533 Beginning of the friendship with First plan for the _Last_
Tommaso dei Cavalieri in _Judgment._
Rome.

1534 Death in Florence of Lodovico, the
father of Michelangelo.

1534 September 23. Michelangelo returns
to Rome, where he remains until his
death.

1534 September 25. Death of Clement VII.

1534 October 13. Election of Paul III.

1535 September 1. Michelangelo is named
by order of Paul III
architect-in-chief, sculptor and
painter of the Apostolic Palace.

1536 Beginning of the friendship with
Vittoria Colonna at Rome.

1536 April to November, 1541 _Last Judgment_ in the
Sistine.

1538 The statue of Marcus Aurelius is _Brutus._ Drawings of
raised on the Capitoline Christ for Vittoria
Colonna.

1542-1544 Fres