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Title: Michael Angelo Buonarroti

Author: Charles Holroyd

Release Date: September 19, 2006 [Ebook #19332]

Language: English

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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MICHAEL ANGELO BUONARROTI***

Michael Angelo Buonarroti
By Charles Holroyd,

Keeper of the National Gallery of British Art, with Translations of the
Life of the Master by His Scholar, Ascanio Condivi, and Three Dialogues
from the Portuguese by Francisco d'Ollanda

London
Duckworth and Company

New York
Charles Scribner's Sons

1903

[Frontispiece]

MICHAEL ANGELO

From an early proof of the engraving by
GIULIO BONASONI
(_In the Print Room of the British Museum_)

CONTENTS

Preface
Illustrations
PART I
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
PART II
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
APPENDIX
FIRST DIALOGUE
SECOND DIALOGUE
THIRD DIALOGUE
THE WORKS OF MICHAEL ANGELO
A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL BOOKS CONSULTED BY THE AUTHOR
ERRATUM
INDEX

PREFACE

Of all the many lives of Michael Angelo that have been written, that by
his friend and pupil, Ascanio Condivi, is the most valuable. For not only
is it a contemporary record, like the lives inserted by Giorgio Vasari in
the two editions of his famous book, "The Lives of the Most Eminent
Painters, Sculptors, and Architects," published in Florence in 1550 and
1568; but Condivi's work has almost the authority of an autobiography,
many phrases are in the same words, as certain letters in the hand of
Michael Angelo still in existence, especially those relating to the early
life and the ancestry of the master, to his favourite nephew Lionardo, and
concerning the whole story of the Tragedy of the Tomb t