[Frontispiece: THE DAVID.] Bell's Miniature Series of Painters MICHELANGELO BY EDWARD C. STRUTT LONDON GEORGE BELL & SONS 1908 First Published, January, 1904. Reprinted, 1908. TABLE OF CONTENTS SOME BOOKS ABOUT MICHELANGELO LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS CHRONOLOGY OF THE ARTIST'S LIFE LIFE OF MICHELANGELO THE ART OF MICHELANGELO OUR ILLUSTRATIONS LIST OF THE ARTIST'S CHIEF WORKS IN PUBLIC GALLERIES SOME BOOKS ABOUT MICHELANGELO "Carte Michelangiolescheinedite." Milano, 1865. "Vita di Michelangelo Buonarroti," by A. Condivi. Pisa, 1823. "Michelangelo," by H. Knackfuss. Berlin, 1895. "Michel Ange," by E. Ollivier. Paris, 1892. "The Lives and Works of Michelangelo and Raphael," by Quatremere de Quincy. "Michelangelo," by L. von Scheffler. 1892. "Michelangiolo in Rom, 1508-1512," by A. Springer. Leipzig, 1875. "Life and works of M. A. Buonarroti," by Charles Heath Wilson. London, 1876. "Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti," by John Addington Symonds. London, 1893. "Michelangelo Buonarroti," by Sir Charles Holroyd. London, 1903. "An account of the drawings by Raphael and Michelangelo in the University Galleries of Oxford," by Sir J. C. Robinson. "Michael Angelo," by Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower. London, 1903. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS THE DAVID _Accademia, Florence, Frontispiece_ PORTRAIT OF MICHELANGELO _Uffizi Gallery, Florence_ THE CREATION OF MAN _Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome_ TOMB OF LORENZO DE' MEDICI _New Sacristy, San Lorenzo, Florence_ CENTRAL GROUP OF THE LAST JUDGMENT _Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome_ THE MADONNA DELLA PIETÀ _St. Peter's, Rome_ THE HOLY FAMILY _Uffizi Gallery, Florence_ THE MOSES _San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome_ CHRONOLOGY OF MICHELANGELO'S LIFE 1475. Born at Caprese. 1488. Is apprenticed to Domenico Ghirlandajo. 1489-92. Studies sculpture under the patronage of Lorenzo il Magnifico. 1504. Enters into competition with Leonardo da Vinci. 1505. Goes to Rome at the invitation of Pope Julius II. 1508. Begins painting ceiling of Sistine Chapel. 1512. Completes it. 1521. Commences Medicean Tombs in San Lorenzo. 1529. Fortifies Florence against Charles V. 1535-41. Paints Last Judgment. 1547. Begins building Cupola of St. Peter's. 1564. Dies in Rome. THE LIFE OF MICHELANGELO