The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti

by John Addington Symonds

Overview

THE LIFE OF MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI

By John Addington Symonds

This is one of the classic studies of Michelangelo Buonarroti, the Renaissance genius, by one of the finest writers on art in modern times, John Addington Symonds. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti is a fascinating, elegantly-written book full of illuminating insights into the life and artistic career of the Italian master. Symonds’ study is one of the key reference works for any exploration of Michelangelo.

Fully illustrated, from each stage in Michelangelo’s career. Painters Series. 488 pages.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781861716941
Publisher:	Crescent Moon Publishing
Publication date:	10/30/2017
Series:	Painters
Pages:	488
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.06(d)

About the Author

John Addington Symonds (1840-93) was a major figure in Renaissance studies and in the history of gay rights. He was the author of numerous books on criticism and polemics, including Renaissance in Italy and his classic translation of the Life of Benvenuto Cellini. Creighton E. Gilbert is Professor of History of Art at Yale University. He is the author of the Complete Poems and Selected Letters of Michelangelo and Michelangelo: On and Off the Sistine Ceiling.

Table of Contents

Chapter X.37
	On Michelangelo as Architect	1
Chapter XI.
	Final Settlement in Rome
	Paul III
	The Last Judgment and the Paoline Chapel
	The Tomb of Julius 1535-1542
Chapter XII.92
	Vittoria Colonna and tommaso Cavalieri
	Michelangelo as Poet and Man of Feeling
Chapter XIII.180
	Michelangelo Appointed architect-in-Chief at the Vatican
	History of S. Peter's 1542-1557
Chapter XIV.245
	Last Years of Life
	Michelangelo's Portraits
	Illnesses of Old Age 1557-1564
Chapter XV.317
	Death at Rome
	Burial and Obsequies at Florence
	Anecdotes
	Estimate of Michelangelo as Man and Artist
	Pedigree of the Buonarroti Simoni Family
	Appendix	375
	Replies to Criticism	408
	Index	415

Editorial Reviews

"Scholars and students can learn much from a careful reading of this masterpiece of nineteenth-century research, the first modern biography of this famous artist. . . . Symonds's biography stands on its own as a solid, readable, compelling, and appropriate reading for the twenty-first century."—Sixteenth Century Journal

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