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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning wear and marking due to age. Year 1846. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> For more than three centuries the names of MICHEL ANGELO and of RAFFAELLO DA URBINO have been insepar-ably associated not only in the glowing thoughts of all painters of all lovers of art of all venerators of intellectual greatness but also in the general traditions and ideas of the masses. At the present moment therefore when there is spreading throughout the country so vivid a desire to attain a knowledge of the imitative arts it was conceived that it would be doing the state some service to publish in the universally available form of the EUROPEAN LIBRARY lives of the two men who may be emphatically described as creators of the revival of Art. A critical biography of Michel Angelo of a wholly satisfactory nature already existed from the pen well known as a most competent one of Mr. Duppa. His work accordingly is here re-produced entire with the single difference that I have translated the Italian extracts which he retained in their original form. Of Raffaello no life in any degree com-mensurate with so noble a theme existed in our language. We therefore among the foreign biographies of the great Urbinese. (SP)