Michelangelo drawings pdf
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MICHELANGELO
MICHELANGELO
Capitoline Museum, Rome.
BY
ROMAIN ROLLAND
Author of "Beethoven," "Jean Christophe," etc.
Translated by FREDERICK STREET
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK
DUFFIELD & COMPANY
1921
Copyright, 1915 by
DUFFIELD & COMPANY
NOTE
This life of Michelangelo is published in France in the series called "Les Maîtres de l'Art," and is here translated i
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Michelangelo, God’s Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece 0691195498, 9780691195490
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MICHELANGELO, GOD’S ARCHITECT
MICHELANGELO, GOD’S ARCHITECT T he Story of H is F inal Y ears and Gr e at e st M a st e rpiec e
WILLIAM E. WALLACE
Princeton University Press Princeton and Oxford
Copyright © 2019 by William E. Wallace Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to Permissions, Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 6 Oxford Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1TR press.princeton.edu Jacket illustrations: (front) Ponte Sant’Angelo and St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City; (spine) Jacopino del Conte, Portrait of Michelangelo, ca. 1540, oil on panel, 88 cm (34.6") × 64 cm (25.1") All Rights Reserved ISBN 978-0-691-19549-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2019941489 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available Jacket and text design by Leslie Flis This
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Michelangelo's Tondo Doni: origins and significance of one of the greatest masterpieces in art history
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An in-depth study dedicated to the Tondo Doni, a masterpiece by Michelangelo Buonarroti created between 1506 and 1507 and preserved in the Uffizi.
It is the only work on a movable support that can be assigned with certainty to Michelangelo Buonarroti (Caprese, 1475 - Rome, 1564): it is the Tondo Doni, the masterpiece preserved at the Uffizi Gallery and created at the behest of one of the richest Florentine merchants of the early sixteenth century, Agnolo Doni, who in 1504 had taken Maddalena Strozzi, also a member of one of the most prominent families in Florence at the time, as his wife. Revealing to us the name of the commissioner is Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo, 1511 - Florence, 1574), who in his Lives (in both the Torrentine and the Giuntina editions) describes the work with such precision as to leave no doubt as to its identification, a
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