THE LIFE OF MICHAEL ANGELO BUONARROTI ; WITH TRANSLATIONS OF MANY OF HIS Poems and Letters. ALSO, MEMOIRS OF SAVONAROLA, RAPHAEL, AND VITTORIA COLONNA. BY JOHN S. HARFORD, Esq. D.C.L., F.R.S. MEMBER OF THE ACADEMY OF PAINTING OF ST. LUKE, AT ROME, AND OF THE ROMAN ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, LONGMANS, AND ROBERTS. 1857. The right of translation is reserved. CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. - CHAPTER I. 1521 TO 1530. - Character of Pope Clement VII.-Michael Angelo and the - Page 1 Accession of Paul III. to the Papal Chair.-Employs Michael Angelo to paint the Last Judgment.-Mauso- leum of Julius II., and Statue of Moses, finally placed Paints in his Seventy-first Year the Pauline Chapel. Consulted by Paul III. upon the Mural Defences of Various Plans proposed for the New Fabric.-That of Bramante preferred.-Foundation-stone laid of the Modern St. Peter's. Architects successively em- ployed to superintend it. Michael Angelo finally appointed.-Progress and Completion of the Building. |