Robinson, John C.: A critical account of the drawings by Michel Angelo and Raffaelo in the University Galleries, Oxford (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1870)

CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARIES

OF THE LIVES OF
MICHEL ANGELO AND RAFFAELLO,
AND
LISTS OF THEIR PRINCIPAL WORKS.
It would have been beyond the scope of this work to have
prefaced it by methodic lives of Michel Angelo and Raffaello,
and yet it seemed desirable to afford in a compendious form
a ready means of verifying the principal events in their lives,
and the dates and relative sequence of their works. The
tabular summaries appended hereto will, it is thought, be
sufficient for the requirements of the general observer in
examining the drawings in the University Galleries. Critical
students will doubtless refer to the numerous biographies
and other illustrations of both the great artists in question
which abound in every Library.

Michel Angelo.

A.D.
1475, March 6. Michel Angelo Buonarroti born in the Castle of
Chiusi e Caprese in Casentino, near Florence.
1488, April. Placed with Domenico and David del Ghirlandaio, in
Florence, to learn the art of painting.
1489. Went to study in the Medici Gardens in Florence, when
Lorenzo dei Medici took him into his family, where
he remained till the death of Lorenzo in 1492. Two
works of sculpture are still extant, executed during
that period; namely, the head of a Faun, in the Uffizj,
and the bas-relief of Centaurs in the Casa Buonarroti, in
Florence.