Birth and infancy of Michelangelo-Apprenticed to Ghirlandaio- Lorenzo de' Medici becomes his patron-Life in Florence— Grief at Lorenzo's death-Studies in literature and anatomy-- The David-Marshal Gié-"Pots-de-vin "-Robertet-Leonardo da Vinci-The Climbers-Pope Julius II. and his tomb- Buonarroti's rage, flight and submission at Bologna- Colossal Return to Rome-Tomb of Julius II.-San Lorenzo-Paul [J]. b 33 Italian affairs-Defence of Florence-Michelangelo as an En- Michelangelo as a Poet-Vittoria Colonna, Marchioness of St. Peter's and the San Gallists-Death of Urbino-Urged to return to Florence, but remains at Rome to die-Funeral- Sketch of his character, mode of life, and personal appearance 12 14 4. CUPID KNEELING. In the South Kensington Museum. 18 7. PISAN SOLDIERS BATHING IN THE ARNO. (Cartoon for a Fresco) 24 In San Domenico, 8. THE ANGEL WITH THE CANDELABRUM. 9. MOSES. In San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome 10. THE CREATION OF MAN. In the Sixtine Chapel. (Fresco). 40 11. NAKED YOUTH. In the Sixtine Chapel. (Fresco) 36 44 12. THE ERYTHREAN SIBYL and THE DELPHIC SIBYL. In the Sixtine Chapel. (Frescoes) 46 13. TOMB OF LORENZO DE' MEDICI. In San Lorenzo, Florence. 58 14. TOMB OF GIULIANO DE' MEDICI. In San Lorenzo, Florence. 60 15. THE LAST JUDGMENT. In the Sixtine Chapel. (Fresco) 16. THE SIXTINE CHAPEL.-Showing Michelangelo's Frescoes 17. THE PROPHET ISAIAH. In the Sixtine Chapel. (Fresco) 18. THE HOLY FAMILY. In the Uffizi, Florence. (Oil Painting) 108 64 92 100 THE MICHELANGELO. HE great era of modern art, the wonderful epoch of the Renaissance, which we can in these days grasp in its entirety, differs from the older civilizations in that its development was more rapid, local, and unimpeded, and that it succeeded the gloom of the Middle Ages with hardly any period of transition. Never in the remotest times is barbarism a universal fact. It exists only among certain nations. Far as we may go back into history, we meet the civilizations of Egypt, of India, of Greece. The names of Moses, Homer, Zoroaster, Job, are intermingled with childish fables in the primitive records of mankind. (The Renaissance is sudden : after ten centuries of ignorance, of barbarism, of efforts unheard-of and barren, in the dreary darkness of that sky, in the midst of all those ruins, it bursts forth into the full brightness of a summer day, almost without a dawn. Dante and Giotto open this glorious era, and with one touch give life again to Poetry and Painting. After them press the greatest men of modern times. Brunelleschi rears the dome of S. Maria del Fiore, Ghiberti casts the doors of the Baptistry, Columbus B |