Note 69 — Chapter VI · THE GOLDEN AGE RAPHAEL AND MICHELANGELO

Michelangelo. The best source for the study of Michelangelo, painter, is the superb plates in Ernst Steinmann’s Die Sixtinische Cappelle, Munich, 1901. Among recent short biographies that of Charles Holroyd, Michelangelo, London and New York, 1911 and Romain Rolland (a longer study, The Life of Michelangelo, New York, 1912; a different and shorter work, Michelangelo, a Study, &c., New York, 1915) are perhaps the best. The two volume biographies by Hermann Grimm and by J. Addington Symonds are valuable, especially for historical background. But the reader may be wise to content himself with one of the brief biographies and such contemporary lives as Vasari’s, Ascanio Condivi’s, and Francesco d’Olanda’s. The two latter are translated in Holroyd’s book. The drawings of Michelangelo are admirably discussed and presented in a perfect selection by Mr. Berenson in The Drawings of the Florentine Painters. The drawings are chronologically arranged and beautifully reproduced by Karl Frey, Die Handzeichnungen Michelangelo’s, 2 vols., Berlin, 1911. W. R. Valentiner treats The Late Years of Michelangelo (New York, 1914) with insight, devoting himself chiefly to the more finished drawings. For a brief yet comprehensive survey, John La Farge in Great Masters, New York, 1903. The works are completely reproduced in Klassiker der Kunst, No. VII. Michelangelo, Stuttgart and Leipzig.