Lorenzo de' Medici seeks highly skilled, aesthetically oriented individual to conceive and implement several major public projects. You are a generalist with sound training in structural engineering, synthesis of pigments and Christian iconography. Some climbing involved

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number of widowers.

You must know that I am, of all men who were ever born, the most inclined to love persons. Whenever I behold someone who possesses any talent or displays any dexterity of mind, who can do or say something more appropriately than the rest of the world, I am compelled to fall in love with him; and then I give myself up to him so entirely that I am no longer my own property, but wholly his.

Can't you see the angel imprisoned in the block of stone trying to get out? I am trying to free him

A good sculpture can be rolled downhill without breaking.

If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.