Book Details

Author: Addington Symonds, John:
Title: The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti - Based on Studies in the Archives of the Buonarroti Family at Florence.
Published: London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1901.
Classification: Catalogue 15 - Art & Architecture
Description: Third edition. With Portrait and Fifty Reproductions of the Works of the Master. In Two Volumes. Volume the First: xxxii, 469 pp + 2 pp ads. Frontispiece (tissue-guarded), & 33 other illustrations. Contents include: Early Life 1475-1492, First Visits to Bologna & Rome The Madonna Della Febbre 1492-1501, Residence in Florence - The David 1501-1505, Rome 1505-1506, Bronze Statue of Julius II Painting of the Sistine Vault 1506-1512, Michelangelo as Draughtman Painter, Sculptor, Church of S. Lorenzo at Florence 1513 - 1521, The Sacristy and Library of S. Lorenzo 1521-1526, Sack of Rome and Siege of Florence 1527-1534. Volume the Second: viii, 449 pp + 2 pp ads. Frontispiece (tissue-guarded) & 16 other illustrations. Contents Include: On Michelangelo as Architect, Final Settlement in Rome Paul III The Tomb of Julius 1535-1542, Vittoria Colonna and Tomaso Cavalieri, Michelangelo as Architect-in-Chief at the Vatican History of S. Peter's, Last Years of Life, Michelangelo's Portraits Old Age 1557-1564, Death at Rome, Estimate of Michelangelo as Man and Artist. Both volumes - some browning on eps. Internally very clean. Top edges gilt. Front and bottom edges untrimmed. Bound in maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering on spines. Bindings sound and tight. Top and bottom of spines and corners very lightly rubbed. Overall condition VG.
Book Number: #3473
Price: € 53.30
   

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