{"product_id":"2940016177038","title":"Michael Angelo Buonarroti","description":"Michael Angelo Buonarroti Written by Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower, and published in London in 1903. Lord Gower also wrote biographies of Marie Antoinette and Joan of Arc, and a history of the Tower of London. This biography also includes 40 illustrations\/photographs of Michael Angelo's most famous works. There is also included at the end, a Catalogue of the Works of Michael Angelo (252 pages)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Publisher has copy-edited this book to improve the formatting, style and accuracy of the text to make it readable. This did not involve changing the substance of the text. Some books, due to age and other factors may contain imperfections. Since there are many books such as this one that are important and beneficial to literary interests, we have made it digitally available.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e.....To write worthily of so supreme a world-genius as was Michael Angelo is given to few. But to one who, since his earliest appreciation for what is greatest in art, has ever revered that mighty master, it may be allowed to add a tribute of homage by this little monograph to Michael Angelo Buonarroti. \u003cbr\u003e       If further preface is needed, I perhaps cannot do better than give the following words written to me by the veteran artist, G. F. Watts, RA., O.M., on returning the proofs which he had kindly read. \u003cbr\u003eRonald Sutherland Gower. \u003cbr\u003e\"July 24, 1903. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTABLE OF CONTENTS:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations \u003cbr\u003eChapter I. Early Years\u003cbr\u003eChapter II. The Tomb of Julius\u003cbr\u003eChapter III. Later Years \u003cbr\u003eChapter IV. Michael Angelo as Sculptor\u003cbr\u003eChapter V. Michael Angelo as Painter \u003cbr\u003eChapter VI. Michael Angelo as Architect \u003cbr\u003eChapter VII. Michael Angelo as Draughtsman \u003cbr\u003eChapter VIII. Michael Angelo as Poet \u003cbr\u003eChapter IX. Contemporary Portraits of Michael Angelo in Sculpture and Painting \u003cbr\u003eChapter X. The Influence of Michael Angelo \u003cbr\u003eCatalogue of the Works of Michael Angelo: \u003cbr\u003ePaintings \u003cbr\u003eDrawings and Sculpture \u003cbr\u003eDrawings by Michael Angelo: The British Museum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePARTIAL LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS\/PHOTOGRAPHS \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoses \u003cbr\u003eMarble Mask of a Faun. \u003cbr\u003eMarble Statuette of an Angel \u003cbr\u003eDavid \u003cbr\u003eThe Deposition. \u003cbr\u003eTomb of Julius II \u003cbr\u003eSacristy \u003cbr\u003eNight \u003cbr\u003eMadonna and Child\u003cbr\u003eBronze Bust of Michael Angelo\u003cbr\u003eMadonna and Child\u003cbr\u003eCombat between Centaurs and Lapithae\u003cbr\u003eMarble Statue of St. John the Baptist\u003cbr\u003ePietà \u003cbr\u003eHead of David \u003cbr\u003eThe Dying Adonis\u003cbr\u003eTomb of Giuliano de' Medici\u003cbr\u003eTomb of Lorenzo de' Medici\u003cbr\u003eMadonna and Infant Christ, St. John the Baptist and Angels \u003cbr\u003eThe \"Doni\" Madonna \u003cbr\u003eThe Entombment of our Lord\u003cbr\u003eCeiling of the Sistine Chapel\u003cbr\u003eThe Creation of the Sun and Moon\u003cbr\u003eThe Last Judgement \u003cbr\u003eThe Three Fates\u003cbr\u003eInterior of the Cupola of St. Peter's, Rome\u003cbr\u003eThe Laurentian Library, Florence\u003cbr\u003eDescent from the Cross","brand":"Digital Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47081140486384,"sku":"2940016177038","price":7.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016177038_p0.jpg?v=1763630447","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016177038","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}