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Title: Michelangelo
A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The
Master, With Introduction And Interpretation

Author: Estelle M. Hurll

Release Date: December 3, 2005 [EBook #17212]

Language: English

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[Illustration: MICHELANGELO BUONAROTTI (ATTRIBUTED TO BUGIARDINI)
_Uffizi Gallery, Florence_]

The Riverside Art Series

MICHELANGELO

A COLLECTION OF FIFTEEN PICTURES
AND A PORTRAIT OF THE MASTER
WITH INTRODUCTION AND
INTERPRETATION

BY

ESTELLE M. HURLL

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1900

COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.

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._

INTRODUCTION

I. ON MICHELANGELO'S CHARACTER AS AN ARTIST
II. ON BOOKS OF REFERENCE
III. HISTORICAL DIRECTORY OF THE WORKS