(New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1936
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FIRST TUDOR EDITION AFTER THE CROWELL EDITION OF THE PRIOR YEAR. A good read for sure and well illustrated throughout. The author was educated at Dartmouth, Brown and Harvard Universities, taught at Princeton as Proctor Fellow, and then spent some years at the The Rhode Island School of Design and ten years at Wells and Cornell Universities. He lectured in Europe for six years and the Archaeological Institute of America as well
This is a well written and well researched book on the whole of Michelangelo's life and work. Item #34880

First Tudor Edition. Illustrated throughout with a good number of full-page plates depicting a number of the individuals central to Michelangelo's life and work as well as a number of Michelangelo's most important creations, the giant sculpture of David, the Pieta, the tomb for Pope Julius, Christ Descending and others, as well as scenes from the Vatican's Sistine Chapel and the greatest architectural creation of Michelangelo--St. Peter's Basilica in Rome with its massive ovoid dome, imagined and designed by the great artist. Royal 8vo, publisher's original black polished cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, the upper cover with gilt central medallion of Michelangelo. [xii], 356 pp. A fine copy, bright and clean, the binding tight and strong and very well preserved.