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LIFE
OF
MICHAEL ANGELO BUONARROTI.
CHAPTER I.
BIRTH AND PARENTAGE OF MICHAEL ANGELO. -EARtY INDI-
CATIONS OF HIS ARTISTIC POWERS. — IS APPRENTICED TO
D. GHIRLANDAJO. —-HIS RAPID ADVANCE IN ART.
1474 TO 1489.
" Let it not," says Vasari, " excite surprise, that
though professing to decline writing the lives of
artists my contemporaries, I have undertaken that
of Michael Angelo. It is a slight and merited
tribute to one whose name can never die. When,
in common with other men, his mortal frame shall
perish, he will be immortal in his immortal works,
the fame of which, so long as the world endures,
will gloriously survive in the records and on the
lips of men, in contempt of envy, and in despite of
death."
VOL. I. B
OF
MICHAEL ANGELO BUONARROTI.
CHAPTER I.
BIRTH AND PARENTAGE OF MICHAEL ANGELO. -EARtY INDI-
CATIONS OF HIS ARTISTIC POWERS. — IS APPRENTICED TO
D. GHIRLANDAJO. —-HIS RAPID ADVANCE IN ART.
1474 TO 1489.
" Let it not," says Vasari, " excite surprise, that
though professing to decline writing the lives of
artists my contemporaries, I have undertaken that
of Michael Angelo. It is a slight and merited
tribute to one whose name can never die. When,
in common with other men, his mortal frame shall
perish, he will be immortal in his immortal works,
the fame of which, so long as the world endures,
will gloriously survive in the records and on the
lips of men, in contempt of envy, and in despite of
death."
VOL. I. B