CHAPTER VIII.
LIFE OF MICHAEL ANGELO Contrast of Michael Angelo and Cellini--Parentage and Boyhood of Michael Angelo--Work with Ghirlandajo--Gardens of S.Marco--The Medicean Circle--Early Essays in Sculpture--Visit to Bologna--First Visit to Rome--The Pieta of S.Peter's--Michael Angelo as a Patriot and a friend of the Medici--Cartoon for the Battle of Pisa--Michael Angelo and Julius II .-- The Tragedy of the Tomb--Design for the Pope's Mausoleum--Visit to Carrara--Flight from Rome--Michael Angelo at Bologna--Bronze Statue of Julius--Return to Rome--Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel--Greek and Modern Art--Raphael--Michael Angelo and Leo X .-- S.

Lorenzo--The new Sacristy--Circumstances under which it was designed and partly finished--Meaning of the Allegories--Incomplete state of Michael Angelo's Marbles--Paul III .-- The "Last Judgment"-- Critiques of Contemporaries--The Dome of S.Peter's--Vittoria Colonna--Tommaso Cavalieri--Personal Habits of Michael Angelo--His Emotional Nature--Last Illness..