Portrait of Michelangelo by Marcello Venusti.
(Capitoline Museum, Rome.) _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

Pieta. (St. Peter's, Rome.) 14

David. (Accademia delle Belle Arti, Florence.) 18

The Holy Family. Painted for Agnolo Doni.
(National Gallery, London.) 22

The Almighty Creating the Sun and the Moon.
(Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.) 30

The Creation of Man. (Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.) 36

The Prophet Ezekiel. (Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.) 40

The Libyan Sibyl. (Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.) 46

The Prophet Jeremiah. (Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.) 50

The Erythrean Sibyl. (Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.) 58

Jesse. A Figure in the Series of the "Ancestors of Christ."
(Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.) 64

Decorative Figure. (Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.) 70

Decorative Figure. (Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.) 76

Sketch for the Tomb of Julius II. Drawing. (Uffizi, Florence.) 84

Slave. Figure for the Tomb of Julius II. (Louvre.) 94

Moses. Figure for the Tomb of Julius II.
(San Pietro-in-Vinculi, Rome.) 104

Tomb of Giuliano de Medici.
(Chapel of the Medici in San Lorenzo, Florence.) 114

Dawn. Figure from the Tomb of Lorenzo de' Medici.
(Chapel of the Medici in San Lorenzo, Florence.) 122

Twilight. Figure from the Tomb of Lorenzo de' Medici.
(Chapel of the Medici in San Lorenzo, Florence.) 130

Christ and the Saints. Detail from The Last Judgment.
(Sistine Chapel.) 138

Charon's Boat. Detail from The Last Judgment. (Sistine Chapel.) 146

The Resurrection. Drawing. (Louvre.) 152

The Dome of St. Peter's. From the Original Model in Wood.
(Preserved in the Vatican.) 158

The Descent from the Cross. (Duomo, Florence.) 164

INTRODUCTION

The life of Michelangelo offers one of the most striking examples of the
influence t