Michael Angelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter, architect : the story of his life and labours / by Charles Christopher Black

Charles Christopher Black

RA Collection: Book

Record number

12/2380

Author

Imprint

London: Macmillan and Co., 1875

Physical Description

xi, [5], 261 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

General Note

Frontispiece: Michael Angelo from a painting in the possession of M. Chaix D'Est-Ange. Etched by Alphonse François.

Summary Note

Chapter I. Birth and early life -- Chapter II. In mature age -- Chapter III. In old age -- Appendix: Extracts from letters of Michael Angelo. Letters to Buonarroto; Letters to his fatter; Letter from Michael Angelo; Letter to Vasari; Letter from Francis I. to Michael Angelo -- Chronology of the principal events in the life of Michael Angelo -- The Manuscripts of Michael Angelo

Classified catalogue of the principle works of Michael Angelo: Part 1. Sculpture. Part 2. Painting. Part 3. Architecture -- Catalogue of paintings, drawings and models by Michael Angelo in England -- Catalogue of drawings by Michael Angelo in the principal foreign galleries -- Michael Angelo as poet: Translations of his sonnets by Southey, Wordsworth, Hartley Coleridge, John Edward Taylor and others -- Bibliography of Michael Angelo and his works -- Index

Name as Subject

Subject

Art, Renaissance — Italy.

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