Michelangelo: III, The Medici Chapel

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1948. Hardcover. VG/-VG- (age toning to page edges, corners bumped, light shelfwear to boards, text and illustrations otherwise clean and clear. Dust jacket is worn with small tears and staining). Black cloth, gilt lettering, tan dust jacket with brown lettering. 275 pp followed by 330 bw plates. Volume 3 of 5 volumes of Charles De Tolnay's work on Michelangelo. ... The author is focused on the architectural and sculptural works of the burial chapel of the Medici, and on the other works exectued or projected during the same period. Among the illustrations are many made from entirely new photographs, some taken (truncated) under the author's direction and others taken during the war while the statues were removed for safety from their places." -book jacket. (Inventory #: 19994)