The Life of Michael Angelo (Volume One)

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Hermann Friedrich Grimm was a German critic and biographer; was born at Cassel, January 6, 1826. He is a son of the celebrated philologist, Wilhelm Grimm. He was educated at Berlin and at Bonn; and from 1850 to 1853 he lived at Rome. In 1872 he became professor of the history of art at the University of Berlin. He is the founder of the review Ueber Kunstleben und Kuntzwerke; and has written, besides a vast number of minor essays, Goethe in Italian (18 50) ; Essays (1850-75) ; Armin (185 1) ; Demetrius (1854) ; Unuberwindliche Machte (The Unconquerable Powers, 1859) ; Das Leben Michelangelo (1870) ; Das Leben Rafaels (1872); Funfzehn Essays (1874); Vorlesungen uber Goethe (1877), and a collection of stories entitled Novellen.His most important work is generally considered to be his Life of Michel Angelo, of which there is a fine translation by Miss Bunnett.