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1. 214 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 2 April 1882.

   in note 3:

   ...’ (I, too, am a painter), his response to Michelangelo’s assertion that he would never become a g...

2. 222 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 1 May 1882.

   in translation:

   ...th a rough piece of graphite. The implement Michelangelo and Dürer used was perhaps very similar to ...

3. 361 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 11 July 1883.

   in note 40:

   Night is a marble sculpture by Michelangelo that forms part of the tomb of Guiliano de Medici ...

   in translation:

   ... Millet, and that large woodcut by him, The shepherdess. Or at an old horse by Mauve &c.Michelangelo

4. 480 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Monday, 26 January 1885.

   in note 5:

   ...hat metaphor Van Gogh is referring to here. Michelangelo suggested the idea that sculptures transcend...

   in translation:

   ... pass in what passes, that exists. And what Michelangelo said in an almighty beautiful metaphor, I th...

5. 515 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 14 July 1885.

   in note 17:

   Silvestre had also observed that Michelangelo made sublime figures which did not accord with reality....

   in translation:

   ...ainly not be digging. Tell him that I think Michelangelo’s figures magnificent, even though the leg...

6. 531 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Wednesday, 2 September 1885.

   in translation:

   ... then — I find modern art as great — as Michelangelo and Rembrandt — the old infinite, the new ...

7. 539 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 7 November 1885.

   in note 9:

   Van Gogh may have taken this remark by Michelangelo from Eugène Emmanuel Amaury-Duval, who observed:...

   in translation:

   ...e magic, which costs one dear to learn, and Michelangelo’s gloomy, sarcastic words — my manner is...

8. 543 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Friday, 20 November 1885.

   in note 2:

   Michelangelo’s Pensieroso (1525) is the central sculpture on the tomb of Lorenzo de’ Medici in th...

   in translation:

   ...heatrical? Look here — take Rembrandt — Michelangelo — take Michelangelo’s Pensieroso. Meant ...

9. 557 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Tuesday, 2 February 1886.

   in translation:

   ...a head of Niobe and a hand that could be by Michelangelo — I’d done the hand in a couple of hours...

10. 598 To John Peter Russell. Arles, Thursday, 19 April 1888.

    in translation:

    ...tists did formerly, by pure form greeks and Michelangelo, or by pure line or delineation Raphael, Man...

11. 651 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Monday, 30 July 1888.

    in note 22:

    ...n) can refer to the Greeks, but also to ‘the Michelangelos, Raphaels and the Greeks’ as a whole.

    in translation:

    ...€”— well worth Dante’s Paradise and the Michelangelos and Raphaels and even the Greeks. It’s be...

12. 798 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 2 September 1889.

    in translation:

    And how very different this is from Michelangelo or Giotto, although the latter however comes close t...

13. RM21 To Joseph Jacob Isaäcson. Auvers-sur-Oise, Sunday, 25 May 1890.

    in translation:

    ...sks oneself: and did Raphael want this, and Michelangelo and Da Vinci? I do not know, but I believe t...

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1. About this edition / Note on the translation

   in about_4:

   ...cized where appropriate: Michelange becomes Michelangelo; Van der Meer becomes Vermeer. We have used ...

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