Life Of Michael Angelo By Herman Grimm Translated With The Author's Sanction By Fanny Elizabeth Bunnett Translator Of Gervinus' Shakespeare Commentaries, And Author Of 'Louise Juliane, Electress Palatine, And Her Times,' Etc. With Photographic Portrait. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. (II.)

Herman Friedrich Grimm

RA Collection: Book

Record number

06/3898

Author

Herman Friedrich Grimm

Uniform Title

[Leben Michelangelo's, English.]

Imprint

London:: Smith, Elder And Co. 65 Cornhill., 1865. [This Work is Copyright.]

Physical Description

2 vols.; 192 mm. (Duodecimo.)

General Note

Vol. I: [iii-]viii, 497, [1] p., frontis. (port.). - Vol. II: [2], 471, [1] p.

Vol. I: [Frontis., t.p.] - Contents Of Volume I - [Text]; [colophon]. - Vol. II: [T.p.] - [Text] - Appendix; [colophon].

Responsibility Note

The frontispiece is captioned 'Michlagniolo di bonarrotti Simoni schultore I Roma'.

The printers' names are given in the title-page versos and in the colophons: 'Printed by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh.'

References

L. Østermark-Johansen, Sweetness and Strength: The Reception of Michelangelo in Late Victorian England (1998).

Summary Note

The work was first published in 1860-3 in German.

The frontispiece shows a portrait of Michelangelo.

Binding Note

19th-century half calf, marbled-papered boards; black morocco spine-labels lettered 'Life Of Michael Angelo.', spines lettered 'Grimm. - Vol. I. (II.)'.

Name as Subject

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Subject

Artists - Sculptors - Painters - Art - Italy - Tuscany - Florence - Lazio - Rome - History - 16th century - Renaissance - Mannerism
Biography - Art history - Translations from German - Translations into English - Great Britain - 19th century

Contributors

Fanny Elizabeth Bunnett, translator
Smith, Elder and Company (London), publisher
R. and R. Clark (Edinburgh), printer