MICHELANGELO
VITTORIA COLONNA

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 

THE AUTHOR owes a great debt of gratitude to Casa Buonarroti in Florence for the photographic rendition of Vittoria Colonna’s letters to Michelangelo in this book.

The photographic rendition of Michelangelo’s gift drawings for Vittoria Colonna was also granted by courtesy of the British Museum in London, by courtesy of Accademia in Venice su concessione del Ministero per I Beni e le Attivitità  Culturali, by courtesy of Louvre, Paris, and of Kunst Historisches Museum in Vienna. The author owes special thanks to Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, as trustee, for using Michelangelo’s most appealing drawing of Vittoria Colonna as frontispiece of her book. Maria Musiol