PREFACE

In making a collection of prints from the works of Michelangelo, it is impossible to secure any wide variety, either in subject or method of treatment. We are dealing here with a master whose import is always serious, and whose artistic individuality is strongly impressed on all his works, either in sculpture or painting. Our selections represent his best work in both arts. These are arranged, not in chronological order, but in a way which will lead the student from the subjects most familiar and easily understood to those which are more abstract and difficult.

ESTELLE M. HURLL.

New Bedford, Mass.
January, 1900.

CONTENTS AND LIST OF PICTURES

[Portrait of Michelangelo. Attributed to Bugiardini.][
Frontispiece.]

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INTRODUCTION
i [On Michelangelo's Character as an Artist]vii
ii [On Books of Reference]x
iii [Historical Directory of the Works of Art in this Collection]xii
iv [Collateral Readings from Literature]xv
v [Outline Table of the Principal Events in Michelangelo's Life]xviii
vi [Some of Michelangelo's Famous Italian Contemporaries]xx
I [MADONNA AND CHILD]1
II [DAVID]7
III [CUPID]13
IV [MOSES]19
V [THE HOLY FAMILY]25
VI [THE PIETÀ]31
VII [CHRIST TRIUMPHANT]37
VIII [THE CREATION OF MAN]43
IX [JEREMIAH]49
X [DANIEL]55
XI [THE DELPHIC SIBYL]61
XII [THE CUMÆAN SIBYL]67
XIII [LORENZO DE' MEDICI]73
XIV [TOMB OF GIULIANO DE' MEDICI]79
XV [CENTRAL FIGURES FROM THE LAST JUDGMENT]85
XVI [PORTRAIT OF MICHELANGELO ]([See Frontipiece])91
[PRONOUNCING VOCABULARY OF PROPER NAMES AND FOREIGN WORDS]95

Note: All the pictures with the exception of the Cupid were made from photographs by Fratelli Alinari. The Cupid was photographed from the statue in the South Kensington Museum, London.

INTRODUCTION