Michael Angelo Buonarroti
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers wanting an English introduction to Michelangelo's life and works
- Beginners interested in Renaissance art who need a clear timeline
- Readers accustomed to public-domain English biographies who can accept old-fashioned scholarly style
- Those preparing to visit exhibitions or watch documentaries who want background knowledge first
Not a good fit for
- Professional readers needing the latest art-historical research and scholarly annotations
- Beginners with weak English who prefer Chinese-language popular art books
- Readers who only want picture books and prefer not to read textual narrative
Reading tips
- Before reading, find a list of images of Michelangelo's major works and view them alongside the corresponding chapters.
- Keep a timeline as you read, marking sculpture, painting, and architecture separately to clarify creative phases.
- Mark old-fashioned terms or names first and verify them after each chapter to avoid interrupting reading.
- After finishing, consult a contemporary art-history work to check which of the book's views have been revised.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Sir Charles Holroyd (1861–1917) was a British painter and printmaker who served as Director of the National Gallery in London. He combined the roles of artist and public art administrator: he was known for portraits and landscapes, and he also managed the National Gallery's affairs, contributing to the care and display of Britain's public art collections. One work by him is held in this collection, Michael Angelo Buonarroti, which concerns Michelangelo's life and art. Public information on his early years, education and exact dates of office is limited, so no speculation is offered here. His writing follows the British tradition of art history and artist biography, emphasizing analysis of works and narrative of the artist's life in plain prose, and is suitable for readers interested in Renaissance art and the history of British art collecting.
